KAZAN ADMITTED SPYING CZECHOSLOVAKIA CLAIMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400290007-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: November 18, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

N 0V 18 1966
Approved for Release 1999/09/17 CGM BUFP75-0
? ? stopped thereon a flight from;
Kazan Admitted a py i n g Mcow tPaKazan was returning to the :.,.,
Uniked States after attending an' nce.: in Czech oslovakia Claims ,;,aduhe fli ferewas not trhawi
ulcd to stop in Prague. l`.:
f.MoScow today that the aircraft
U.S. Embassy spokesman said,! I iFO1:ib3:b,:
b'
; Soviet clarification+of the~ir,ri'
radar trouble made it itneaacible1 l?`
Paris and that Prague' is an; ;r` .?
U.S. citizen, was "specially 1 ror: the take-off and the plane t
trained by a foreign intellieenee VLADIMIIR J. KAZA1V left without him, its Pilot not
s .rvic to or a I ffsra ac-R ? Knowing A,ttat had become of
n Czechoslovakia -tern!- that he might have worked ..,I# Jlbti11. !
j in
The agency did not indicate Kazan, 42, was born in Czech ;group led CCzechoslovakia -lhat
ice It referred to. yard Traver Service in Q j Cze chony. CT1{ said Kazan left f t
Washington sources say Kazan .bridge, Mass. Czechoslovakia In
seize( the year i
power. ~, :i'
has'not worked'; for 'g .ntzsl# was arrested ;~tt ptaime the' Communists seized
nazan wun spying, high treason ,
Photo of Family. Page A-3:.'
Kazan "explained his activities,
stated the circumstances under
1. CTK said Kazan, a naturalized
'the agency said that during
(intelligence reports to a Czecho-
, ! the group and that it -+asl
!.! topped by Czechoslovak e? thor-
.! CTK said Kazan "succeeded
jfOily proved by testimonies of 11 _
written and material evid-
,! The Star, In 'disclosing the
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Approved For Release 1999/09/17 :' CIA-RDP75-00149R000400290,q,97-3