K.G.B. OFFICERS TRY TO INFILTRATE ANTIWAR GROUPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100130006-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: July 26, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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COPENHAGEN-flyer the last two
years, the Danish ,and Swiu govern-'
means have exposed attempts by osten-
sible Soviet dlplomars,actuaAy K.G.B..
o2tloars, to inAuemoe or buy their why:
into groups trying to~aoclt da?ploymeat
um-rang. minus. in west..
~:
The cases are the bast evidence~o~~
fared by western counterintelligence
oifiarx who baliwe that'tDe Soviet es- .
pioa,age agency's higbsst priorities is
W esters Enrops taClttde attempts ZA ex-
ploit tbsdisarmament movement.
The cotmterintelligance eu~erts are
quick to admawledge that there are
Tracking the K.G:B.
Lsf of fhr+ee articles.
hundreds of thousands of people w_ho ap-
pose nttclsar weapoasand are not dupes
of the K.G.B., o! the local Commtmiat
Parry or of the Soviet Union in nay way.
Nowhere is the antinuclear move-
ment regarded as a creation of Soviet
polity. r'tether, it is seen as an unusual
target of opportunity for ? full range of
'Soviet influence, extending beyond the
K.G.B.
But in trying to demonstrate the
Soviet efforts convincingly, Western of-
fidals run into problems. One is a relua
lance to prosecute dtizens irnolved in
the antinuUear movement -where the
K.G.B. has been ooatpicuotrsly present
- because of risks of domesdc political
b,~tit,~,
la 1961, when the Daaiah Government
ousted a Soviet diplomat, identified as a
ma jor to the K.G.B., for trying to btry a
plane fa the debate on nuclear weapons
here, a Dsae was arrested is the case
but not proeecttted.
Danish ~ disarmament groups de-
seribed the whole affair ss ea attempt
to defame them.
Something similar happened to Swat.
e_-land this spring. The Gaverament
closed the Berg bureau of Novosti, the
Soviet praas-feature agency, threw vut
eta local chief sad forced witlidsawai of
a Soviet diplomat it said was the K.G.B.
o"8ocr responsible for overseeing No-
vosti's local operations.
NEW YORK TIriES
26 July 1983
The Swiss explanation for the action
was that the Nwosti staff had grossly
interfered iA swiss attain, notably the
antinuclear movement.
However, two Swiss dtiuas were not
charged although they were named in
Federal Attorney's documenu as hav-
inB asafated Novostl.
Fxoastve RsaWoa Charged
The c~mpLintssa Swfturlead, which
is netutal, were the saint as those in _......_r.__--
Dettmark, which is a member of the At-
lantic ailiaace. Critics said that the ' T~ BoQm briefing paper went oar
Go'vanment had overteaCked, that its ~ "T1x7' have this OQpO~'dffiity because
case was thin and that thousands of des ~Y ~~ hem allowed fain the coordi-
oent and Ioyal dt3zens had been tainted _ sratian and plaaafag orputiations o2 the
~t~ were aWve.ta dinar- 'Pm~ movemem2' and have bean abk
Beyond domestic political seadtlvl-
ties, another problem adtnvwledged by
oo~tarsspiaoage omdab is the tuzsi-
nsss at Soviet invoJvemamt to what the.
B.G.B. ells '`active measures" -
aos m c:aau apolitical eatect
cad, as opposed to collection 513o--
laa~csatton on weapons, politta and
~Lst~? to Congresdanal testlmo-
wy, the United Suter Central Iatelli-
genoe ~-g'mcy admowledged its diffi-
easlties sad echoed those o~ other west.
era tntelligenoe services.
"Political influence operations are
the mast important btu least tmder-
stood of Soviet actve measures," 1t
said. "They are difficult to Mace sad to
deal with because they fall into the gray
areas between a legitimate e:charsge of
ideas sad as actlve tasastsres opexa-
Last March, the Federal Bureau of
IavestiBation said in a report to a Con-
gre+adonal ootnmittae:
"We do not believe the Soviets have
achieved a dominant mle is the U. S.
peace sad ntrclesr freeue movemesats or
that theq directly control or manipulate
the mOVemenL."
The F.B.I, added: "It is extremely
difficult m detrrmine the extort to
which vsriotss peace organizations sad
ooaptioass are being ialltsmced or
manipulated by the Soviet Union."
Esy Rok for Lora! Commtmists
Ia Western Europe, a number of
ootmtariatelligenoe omdals nay that
the attempb u e:oert iafltseace are han-
dled for the most part by the local Com-
ta~ Pte',
Soviet inUueace on the mavemeats
does ezist, they say, but tt is often - m
a juridical rinse - entirely legal. There
is no reason for R.G.B. agents m tread
where local Communist Party agents
can carry out iastrucrions of the Inter-
national Department of the Soviet Com?
mttaist Party's Central Committee -.
the body to Moscow that aLo coordt-
natesthe K.G.B.'s tasks sad priorities.
Aa internal briefing PaP~ P~~
in Jtme by the West German Interior
Ministry sought to evaluate Soviet tatel-
I{genoe iavolvemeat with the disarma-
meatgrasps.
to create as andienoe sad oansddaa- i
tfon. Ali shows that they are
able m acpressly header the acceptance
err di:eem3aanon at poattloos that dp not
!it the pelitica-i canoeptim oath. sovlat
Union. As a ttstilt o! the availability of
the D.B.P. for the t of
Soviet goals in relation zo the 'peace
mo~vaaalR,' that is ao ascesdty for the
~~iatmvmgian o1 the fatr121geaoe
Smddve~ ~
There art examples of the west Ger-
man Interior Miniszty's oontmtlon that
the West German are able
m block disarsdao of matters uacom-
foruble tothe Soviet Union.
Ia April last year, members of the
Green Party at0sadiag the final orgaai-
rational meeKiagfor alarge demazsstra-
tian against Preddaat . Retgaa end
NAT'0 d'ts:iog a summit meeting !a
Bonn, accused the west Getman Com-
munist Parry sad its friends of dome'
nesting the prooesdiags.
United States policy arotmd tbt world .
was o bS' the Germans sad
motions agaitsst Soviet iatafer+mcx in ;
Poland sad Afghaaisua were rejected.
The positions -those to bt o0 }d811y
supported atthe demao:tratian -were
-so tmhaLnoed that some mambas :of
the Gram Party said they were candd-
eriag st:y~g awayhvm therapy.
They did -ittand bct wiffi their awn
banners and orders o2 the day.
The security agency of the Nether- t
loads, fn a oon!ldmtW paper
for a ateettag oiNAT'Oaecasriry dale
late fn 1981, lialoed the Iatetaadoaal De-
partmeat of the Soviet Communist
Party and the C~ommuaist Party of the
Netherlands in :coordinated e1'tort to
iatiumce the nuclear :txttudes of Dutch
chturh groups.
'Iastruetlom From Moscow'
Directly dealing with the K.G.B., it
said, "it is known that K.G.B. officcra to
the Netherlands have received iastrua
leans Iron Moscow to promote protests
against the aeuuan bomb. but ft is diffi-
cult to ascertain how they have put
~ these insuuc~ioos into pracricx. ?'
T'he Dutch security agency. however,
documented a K.G.B. forgery, seat to
acdvLsts. newspapers sad polftidaas
that purported to be a U: S. military
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