THE STRANGE CASE OF 'COL. (CLASSIFIED)

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• Publication Date: March 25, 1966
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WTHE STRANGE CASE OF "COL. GOLENIEWSKI" (PART II)
The United Press International, as we pointed
ut in our issue or February 11, 1900, reported =a
E. Kimsey, a former official of the Central Intel-
igence Agency, has personal knowledge that the
I.A. has fingerprints, sole prints, dental charts
nd blood tests which establish the identity of"Col.
4ichel Goleniewski" as the Tsarevich Aleksei
icholaevich of Russia. Sworn testimony before the
enate Internal Security Sub-Committee, released
January 5, 1966, established by competent witness
he reliability of information supplied to our gov-
rnment by "Col. Goleniewski."
The intelligence information and documents he
supplied resulted in the exposure of international
spionage apparatus of the Communist Conspiracy
with operations in England, France, Israel, West
Germany, Sweden, Denmark and the United States,
members of which had penetrated high into the intel-
ligence services of Western countries in some in-
stances. These cases resulted in the arrest and trial
and conviction of a number of important agents of
the communists and provided invaluable security
information in the military, political and economic
fields. Some of the details concerning the life of
Aleksei in the United States will now be shown as
well as some data on others who have helped our
country similarly.
Aleksei began supplying information and micro-
films to the United States beginning in April 1958,
and was in danger of detection and certain execution
each day thereafter. By the end of 1960 Aleksei had
reason to believe that the Soviet KGB apparatus,
which operates worldwide, had been drawing closer
to his operations. Thereafter, having made contact
with U.S. officials and arranged for transportation,
he came to the United States on January 12, 1961,
arriving by U.S. Military Air Transport together with
his wife, Irmgard Margaretta Romanoff.
security protection.
Aleksei had previously sent to the United States
over 5,000 pages of secret documents on microfilm
and 160 pages of typewritten reports. He had brought
with him dossiers on 240 individuals. The interpre-
tation of all this intelligence information was to take
a long time. In addition, his consultations and other
intelligence on military matters were of importance
to U.S. authorities. Under the name of "Col. Golen-
iewski" Aleksei entered into a contract,#B-39752,
with the Central Intelligence Agency on Sept. 16,
1961, which detailed ' financial support, protection,
medical care, etc. The contract was renewed on June
16, 1962 for one year. The contract was subsequently
broken by the C.I.A.
Aleksei protested and appealed through the
Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. De-
partment of Justice. This resulted in a new contract
being drawn up and signed on October 7, 1963 again
in the name of "Co1.Goleniewski." It provided that
he was retained as an employee-c onsultant of the
Central Intelligence Agency with a salary of $14,565
per year plus fringe benefit reimbursements. The
contract provided for a one-year notice of cancellation.
In spite of this, three months later, on January 10, 1964,
the C.I.A. broke the contract and is at present$50,000.00
in arrears with his salary payments.
This information concerning the contracts we ob-
tained from a memorandum prepared by Aleksei's at-
torney. On October 5, 1965 the C.I.A. gave notice of
cancellation. The attorney had a conference with
John Warner of the C.I.A., after threatening to take
the case to federal court,but the C.I.A. refused to
pay anything. In reporting the results of his confer-
ence with Mr. Warner, Aleksei's attorney stated in
a letter, "In parting, he told me that the C.I.A. were
concerned with your safety."
He first lived at McLean, Virginia and then in an Whether they are really concerned or whether
apartment house in Arlington, Virginia. In March 1962 this was a veiled threat we do not know. However,
he was moved into an apartment in the Long Island, it is known that in April of 1963, at the request of
N.Y. area, all locations which were selected by U.S. the C.I.A.,a license to carry a pistol was issued to
authorities. During this period Aleksei was in con- Aleksei under a cover name by the New York City
stant consultation with U.S. Intelligence officers Police Department, and an automatic revolver was
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renewal: of the permit, Aleksei turned it over to the
authorities together with the revolver for which the
C.I.A. had promised to substitute a smaller lighter
gun. Neither the permitnorthe gun were ever received
by Alexei, A letter written to the New York City
Police Department by Aleksei's lawyer brought forth
the following reply, "With reference to your recent
inquiry concerning the possible issuance of a pistol
permit to-(cover name)-please be advised that a re-
view of our files discloses that the original pistol
permit was issued to - (cover name) - as a result of
a request by a Federal Agency. The pistol was not
supplied by this Department and was not repossessed
by this Department. We have been informed by the
Federal Agency concerned that they feel there is no
longer any justification for renewal of such permit."
(signed) Edward J. McCabe, Deputy Commissioner
In Charge of Licenses.
On December 22, 1965 Aleksei's attorney wrote
to the Central Intelligence Agency, McLean,Virgiinia
to the attention of John Warner (Legislative Counsel),
"Kindly take notice that I have this day been re-
tained by- (cover name) - to inform you to the effect
that you are charged and responsible for his personal
safety as well as the safety of his family. Kindly
take further notice that should anything happen to
him and. his family, appropriate action will be taken
against you because of your negligence."
In the Senate Internal Security Sub-Committee
Report of September 14, 1961, entitled "The Bang-
Jensen Case,"' pages 61-2, the following appears,
"There has been a long list of suicides under highly
questionable circumstances, involving Soviet defect
ors, prominent anti-Communist or anti-Stalinists, and
people who might have had knowledge about which
the Kremlin had reason to be sensitive.
"Among these mysterious suicides in recent
years have been Walter Krivits ky, Lawrence Duggan,
Walter Marvin Smith, Louis Adamic, Morton E. Kent,
Stepan Bandera, and Povl Bang-Jensen.
"Itis common knowledge amongthose who have
worked in the SSoviet apparatus that the Soviets have
highly developed techniques for simulating suicide.
Several Soviet refugees had given direct testimony
on this point. Perhaps most significant is the fol-
lowing' statement by Petr S. Deriabian, a former member
of the Soviet terror apparatus who defected in 1954.
"` It is general knowledge among those who have
worked in the ranks of the MVD that the MVD,when
it undertakes the liquidation of political opponents,
has certain techniques for simulating suicide and
other techniques of inducing suicide. A convincing
The "suicide" of Stepan Bandera has since been
proved to be a Soviet-ordered murder. Just recently
we have had another questionable "suicide." On
Friday, February 25, 1966 at 10:30 A.M. Victor A.
Kravchenko was found in his apartment at' 14 E. 69th
Street, New York City with a bullet through his
right temple.
Kravchenko had defected from the S oviets in 1944
while assigned to the Soviet Purchasing Commission
in Washington, D.C. As Viktor Andreevich Kray-
chenko, he had been a Soviet Army captain. He was
the author of a best seller, "I Chose Freedom" and
had been living in the same apartment for ten years
under the name of Peter Martin. The newspapers
referred to his death as "an alleged suicide." The
bullet which killed Kravchenko was fired from his
38 calibre Colt Cobra which was found in the right
hand pocket of his jacket.
Kravchenko, who was 61 years old, had spent
the previous night at the home of Mrs. Norman Hap-
good, 139 East 66th Street, New York C.ity, as did
Robert St.Clair, a friend of Kravchenko, who is a
lecturer at the Baruch School of City College of
New York. Mrs. Hapgood is Mr. St.Clair's mother-in-
law and was a sponsor of the American Russian.
Institute and a director of the American Society for
Cultural Relations with Russia, both cited as com-
munist-fronts. Kravchenko had gone back to his
apartment in the morning, together with Mr. St.John
who told the police that at the time of the alleged
"suicide" he had gone to the store to buy some pipe
cleaners for Mr. Kravchenko. Another enemy of the
Soviets eliminated.
On November 22, 1965 the Senate Internal Se-
curity Sub-Committee released a publication entitled,
"Murder International, Inc. Murder and Kidnaping as
an Instrument of Soviet Policy." In the introduction
Sen. Thomas Dodd pointed out that the Soviets have
a "Department of Blood-Wet Affairs" and that it
condemns prospective victims via trial in absentia.
He showed how documents are in the possession of
the Sub-Committee staff which tell a worldwide
forty-year story of murder as an instrument of com-
munist policy. Sen. Dodd stated, "What this testi-
mony and these documents add up to is that pol itic al
murder of Soviet refugees and of non-Soviet citizens
has been systematically carried out by a special
planning apparatus of the Kremlin, beginning im-
mediately after the Russian Revolution and carrying
on to the present day."
"suicide" may take a year or two to prepare. During Either as "Col. Goleniewski,"a Polish defector,
his period, the subject's life is examined minutely or Aleksei Romanoff, heir to the Russian throne, a
in order to determine the methods most suitable to more likely candidate for Soviet extermination could
is personality and circumstances. Meanwhile, stories hardly be found. Neither Aleksei nor his family are
may be circulated to the press, if possible, and at given any protection or even supplied with a gun
he very least among his neighbors, that the subject with which to defend themselves. 7.' here have been
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hich were obvious set-ups. New York City. This New York front in turn financed
a Marxist Institute in the Dominican Republic which
Neither Aleksei nor his wife have been able to in turn was promoting Juan Bosch. Bosch likes to
btain proper Immigration and Naturalization identi- be called a Marxist instead of the Communist whit
ication cards in spite of frustrating correspondence he is. Vollman has been the man behind the scenes
ith several government officials and even an ad in much of the communist-inspired activity in the
Dominican Republic.
laced in various papers to call attention to their
light. During the year 1964-5 Aleksei wrote five A high official of the C.I.A. for several year
etters to the C.I.A. Director, sent them by regis was William P. Bundy. He is the man who, as As
ered mail, and received an answer to none. Regis- sistant Defense Secretary for International Securit
ered letters to J. Edgar Hoover also brought no Affairs, recommended huge sums of money for Com
eply or even acknowledgement of their receipt. The munist Yugoslavia. One of his projects was t
my government official who has replied to his letters supply Communist murderer Tito with 130 F36
s Sen. James Eastland, Chairman of the Senate Sabre Jets and arrange for Communist fighter pilots
m ia Committee and its Internal Security Sub-
to be trained in Texas. Bundy is married to Mar
Coommitty tee. Acheson, daughter of Dean Acheson, who said h
The activities of the C.I.A. are hardly such that would never turn his back on Alger Hiss and con
tinues to have Alger's brother, Donald, an identifie
they would inspire trust and confidence under any communist, working in his Washington, U.C. la
circumstances. That the C.I.A. has been involved in c office. William Bundy_ was chairman of the Fun
the overthrow of the Trujillo Government in the Raising Committee for Alger Hiss's defense. He i
Dominican Republic and the Diem Regime in South credited with having "stage managed" the ove -
Viet Nam has been reported by several journalists. cthrow of the Diem Regime in Viet Nam which r -
Both of these incidents resulted in the murder of the sulted in the murder of President Diem.
anti-communist government head. The Bay of Pigs
fiasco (with tanks with turrets which would not Allen Dulles was Bundy's superior in the C.I.
turn, radios with wrong frequency, ship winches that and the man Povl Bang Jensen waited months to s
did not work, the cream of Cuba's young patriotic aanti-communists sacrificed to Castro) was a C.I.A. in order to relate the names of potential Soviet
defectors at the U.N. who knew the names of Sovi t
operation. agents in U.S. Intelligence Agencies. When a mee -
The Allen-Scott Report of July 30, 1965 stated ing was finally arranged by the Danish Ambassad ,
under the title, "Informers Die Violently," Ban Jensen conferred for half an hour in a priva e
"THE FIFTH COLUMN-The Central Intelligence room with Dulles. After Bang-Jensen's "suicide "
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Agency also is suffering an alarming increase in Dulles told him Senat Committee w that Bang-Jens
casualties among its Cuban `informers.' had "While CIA authorities are not discussing this possible. .that Bang-Jensen had tried for so long to
problem with Congress, they are conducting their see Dulles in order to tell him "nothing," or p (r-
own investigation to ascertain whether `leaks' or haps it was "nothing" that Dulles wanted anyone
`espionage' within the government is responsible else to know.
for their losses. The C.I.A. operates in mystery, its finance
"Within two weeks after an intelligence estimate are kept a secret from the public. The money a.3-
the on the anti-Castro underground was circulated within propriated for its use is apportioned among vario s
State Department, Fidel Castro s secret police government departments but is estimated by some
had rounded up over half of those whose names sources to run as high as two billion dollars r
appeared in the document. year. It operates throughout the world and, althou h
"`The craackdown was so thorough that Castro's the prime responsibility for security in the Unit d
agents could only have done the job with inside in- States rests with the F.B.I., the C.I.A. neverthele s
formation,' stated a reliable State Department source. operates here through fronts, through financed p o-
`The Cuban police used lists identical to those con~jects at certain universities and through individu is
tamed in theU.S.documentin making their arrests. ostensibly working for other departments, nota ly
The J.M. Kaplan Fund, Inc. of New York City the State Department, but who in fact report secre ly
has been used by the C.I.A. as a means of making to the C.I.A.
secret grants. In 1963 the Kaplan Fund gave $395, This C.I.A., which has untold millions avails le
000 to the Institute of International Labor Research, for use against anti-communist governments, for he
Inc., also known as Labor Research Institute, of promotion of left-wing candidates, has failed to ay
113 E. 37th Street, New York. Associated with this even the small amount due Aleksei under the terns
organization were~nNo~rlm~an Thomas, Frank Trager, of its contract with him. It has not only left hi in
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for 11M e y. Atthough "concerned," the C.I.A.
has made no effort to give Aleksei protection and is
the obvious source of attempts to discredit him.
Congress men and Senators who have made inquiry
concerning Aleksei are given a report which verifies
the service he performed for our country and the
free world, and his reliability as a source of infor-
mation. This they could not deny as there are
communist espionage agents now serving long prison
terms in several countries as a result of his dis-
closures and spy rings have been broken up. Butthe
source from which our legislators derive the in-
formation they pass on to their constituents then
raises questions as to Ateksei's "mental health"
and denies the truth of his claims concerning his
identity. No mention is made of the data supplied
by former C.I.A. official Kimsey.
By contrast Aleksei's identity is supported by a
leading Cossack Monarchist, Colonel Alexis Iosifovich
Toultzeff. He was a member of Prince Vladimir
Kirillovich's Executive Committee of the Supreme
Monarchist Front and had supported Prince Vladimir
as heir to the throne of Russia. In January 25, 1965
he acknowlediged Aleksei as the true Tsarevich in a
signed statement. He wrote, "I have seen the
Tsarevich Aleksei Nicholaevich myself and can
affirm that he is a man of dignity and one who de-
serves respect. He is a soldier with a deep faith
in God. All these years, the Russian people, es-.
pecially the soldiers, have been duped by the false
propaganda of the Communists. It is nearly a half
century since these historic events: the forced
`abdication' of The Emperor Nicholas II, the short
lived regime of the Provisional Government, the
usurpation of power by the Bolsheviks, and the
creation of a regime based on terror and on lies and
especially on the greatest deception: the true story
of the destiny of the Imperial Family -- that there
was no ina. ssacre at Ekaterinburg, as nearly every-
one believed, but the Emperor, the Empress Alex-
andra Feodorovna, and all their children were taken
away clandestinely to an exile in Poland, and that
the Tsarevich Aleksei Nicholaevich, and his four
sisters, are still alive.
"With the present situation in Russia there is a
great opportunity to restore the soul of Russia."
Many other people, in Congress, the F.B.I., the
State Department as well as the C.I.A., are familiar
with much of the story of"Col. Goleniewski."If, as
its stated by Herman Kimsey, the C.I.A. has the
proof that "Col. Goleniewski" is in reality the
supposedly murdered heir to the throne of Russia,
it obviously does not intend to release it. This
would be its expected course of action in view of
its activities which always seem to benefit the
communists and hamper the anti-communists.
CT
e ser be assassinated or commit
the time of his first attempts to help the West with
information. They received valuable information from
involving people in U.S. government) and .some of
which lea to spectacular results. They arranged for
where he felt he would be safe. Now they have
turned against him, casting doubts upon his sanity
they admit the value and re Viability of his information
who mightwish to give such information inthe future.
We urge our fellow anti-communists. whether
heir to the throne of Russia, or "Col. Goleniewski
"
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a
olish defector who tried to help the people and
government of the United States by giving information
and out of their own government, to insist that
justice be done in this "strange case." The C.I.A.
secret archives must be made to disgorge the infor-
mation needed to solve "the strange case of Col.
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