THE SPY WAR: SOVIETS HEAT IT UP

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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3y FRANK FASO and
First of a series
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IKE the iceman and the blacksmith, .
the spy has become a- victim of :
modern technology.
Spy satellites and planes criss.
'rocs the skies, spy -ships and subma-
ines prowl the seas. Well, not-exactly:
Intelligence - collecting- machines
luck coded messages out of the air and
eed them to other machines to deci-
her, analyze and evaluate. They solve
i minutes coded -puzzles . that . might
affle - human '--cryptographers for
onths or years. Electronic eyes and
ars keep track of .all:things great. and'
mall - that=might. tilt'. the ,balance of..
iternational power..-
They. . have forced :;thousands'.' of `'.
cofessional - intelligence agents. into
irly'retirement: Yet-James Bond still
ves._ Old-fashioned- cloak-and-dagger
>pionage may seem outmoded, but it is
x from obsolete.
America's CIA,.. Russia's KGB -and
teir- smaller counterparts . are - still
ghting the secret war in which spies
-e the foot=soliders. A -machine flying
gh above the earth can pinpoint the
tact location of a new defense plant or
.issile site, - but only someone inside
e place can find out exactly. what's
ippening there. - -
Two recent cases 9f Soviet espionage
the United State- prove conclusively
Lat guys on the ground are as essential.
the intelligence industry.as spies In.
The first .case involves two Russian
emigrants, : -.Ivan -- Nikoronovich. `. Ro-
ilsky, _34; and Paul S.--Negrasov,- 45.
ederal -agents describe Rogalsky 'as a
ry employed by the. Soviet' secret serv-
e, KGl3: He..allegedly -tried to per
Lade Negrasov to steal defense secrets -
?om: the space center -where Negrasov
orks. - :.,; : , .. ~. _
Rogalsky was a sailor in the Soviet
.erchant marine when he jumped ship
Germany In. 1971: - He eventually .
ade his way to the -United. States and
scame a permanent resident alien. He -
rifted around the -country from New .:
ork (where he lived in the Bronx) to
alifornia,-- from Florida :_to - Aiaska,-:
orking as an auto mechanic. - -
.Two -years age;. he--moved-into, a--
iral community o#- about* a -hundred.
Thite- Russian'--families- in-- Jackson
ownship; -NJ-, 25 miles-'east ' of Tren
in..Investigators :believe: he was plant-:
i there- by the KGB.;to - spy.- on the
ussian exiles. He left -Jackson - Town-
tip in 1975 for a trip-toAlaska and the
test Coast. ,:_: `r.
.On. Nov- 26,' 1975, he met Negrasov
a-party in San Francisco- Negrasov .
as then employed as; an? engineer. at
ord Aerospace Communications in Palo -
Ito,: Calif.,.a- major defense contractor-:
,r the - U.S... government..-Rn?alskv.;
N9'1 YORK DAILY NEWS
26 ,i A_NUARY 1977 .
'-Suspecting that: Iif inquisitive new
friend was a spy, Negrasov reported l
their conversation to the FBI. He was i
told to -play. along 'and see what Ro-
galsky had in mind. .. . - .
Last July, Negrasov : switched jobs
and became a.senior?project engineer at
the RCA ' Astro. Electronics Division
near Aightstown. N.J. _A naturalized
American citizen and'a highly regarded
-scientist, he -was -'given - top security
clearance and began working on secret
Pentagon projects. His duties included
designing power systems for computers
and instruments for space satellites. --
Rogalsky, who was once again living
In - Jackson - -Township, - contacted - Ne-
grasov at the tatter's home in-Lake--
.wood,-NJ., and suggested that he could
supplement his income- by selling- data.
::on space equipment;
FBI agents. then instructed the engi
veer to feed unclassified information to
EGRASOV started slipping doeu.
meets to-Rogalsky last October.'
On Nov. 7, Rogalsky revealed
that his KGB contact was Yev-
tary of the Soviet delegation to the
United Nations. The FBI had long sus-
pected that Karpov was a KGB agent
and had placed him under surveillance
to. obtain secret papers dealing- with
satellite communications systems. :"I
don't-know if I can get them," Negrasov
said. "What if we get caught?" ' - - _
Rogalsky assured the engineer that,
,it anything went wrong, a Soviet ship
would be waiting to pick them up. off
titled: "Statement-of working investiga-
tion. of -.special-- techniques related . to
satellite communications."
arrested by. FBI agents. on, a charge-.of.,
;: 3#?convicted;_be vouid:be.executed.'
not be arrested because of his diplomat-
ic immunity. The government is expect-
ed to boot him back to Russia.
On Jan. 6, the day before Rogalsky
was s,Zzed; Mexican security. police' {
grabbed an American-'who had been
seen with an official of the Soviet
Embassy in Mexico City. The American,
Andrew D. Lee, 25; of Palos Verdes Es-
tates development -near Los Angeles, _
was carrying three rolls ' of microfilm
containing copies of Top-Secret U.S. De-
fense Department documents.- _,.
Mexican authorities notified the FBI
of their find.- Questioned-by American
and Mexican counterspies,. Lee report-
edly confessed that he and another
been selling Pentagon -secrets to the
Russians..:. .:_
Boyce, 23, a trusted employe of the
giant TRN Corp., which-has millions of
dollars worth of defense contracts, was
arrested by the FBI at -his home in
Palos Verdes. - -: -
An'., FBI spokesman, said Lee and
Boyce had collected $17,500:. for their.'
efforts. They were charged with '.'con- -
spiracy to commit espionage against the
United States on behalf- of the Soviet
Union" - ,_
According. to the bureau spokesman,
the two suspects contacted a Soviet offi-
cial last year and offered to sell impor-
tant classified- information. When they
proved they could deliver, the Russian
. hired them. Lee 'was to deliver the
:material stolen by Boyce. The-Russian
--.gave Lee- a code name and put him in 1
touch with the KGB agent -whb would
serve as his control officer. - :.
Subsequently,-Lee made six rips to
'Mexico City and one to Viennatto un- ?
meet.,:
? He became a- familiar-figure to the
Mexican, security, officers -who -had the
Soviet Embassy under surieillance, and
. when he- showed up again this month,
they. decided.to- give.him a toss.-Her was -
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