THE OTHER SHOE

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: September 17, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 1S - On July
6, 1972, William Sullivan =who had
been removed from the top echelons of
the F.B.I. by J. Edgar Hoover-sat in
the office of the new F.B.I. Director, L.
Patrick Gray. Mr. Sullivan wanted to
get back into law enforcement, and
Passed on to Mr. Gray his suspicions
about "Fedora," a Russian at the U.N.
Who was supposedly passing secrets on
to the F.B.I.
By 1976, I am informed,- the F.B.I.:
had largely concluded that "Fedora
_ was not their double agent, but was the'.
Russians' triple agent - passing ondisinformation to the F.B.I.,: and .mis
: leading our C
IA
.
.
In the current Reader's Digest, Wit-
liam Hurt breaks the news of the
NEW YORK TIMES
17 SEPTEMBER 1981
ESSAY
The
Other
By-William Safire
The most important use we made of
our Soviet "spy" in New York was to
ra," dating the decision in 1980. establish the bona fi
des of a Soviet de.
Another Soviet defector, the former ~Y ' fector, Yuri Nosenko, who came to us
U.N. Under Secretary Arkady Schev. shortly after, the Kennedy-assassina-
chenko, tells me that "Fedora" must tiorr to assure the C.I.A. that Lee Har
nave been an amalgam of several
soprces. We'll be learning more from
him on other matters, as well as from
"Fedora" told us to believe r. Nasen-
ko.
Golitzin. has been split between those who dis-
At any rate, we-now know (1) 'that trusted Mr. ?Nosenko and suspected he
the men in charge of American corm- ? ` was -a "plant" - among them James
terespionage had been hoodwinked for Angleton, and to some extent Richard
15 years, and (2) that the F.B.I. had Helms - and those who believed Mr.
been persuaded that its Soviet source Nosenko, Including William Colby and
was a
hon
f
t1.
p
y
or
e last
The oth
the Sovie disinformation plot-stands
revealed; the other half sits in place.
At the C.I.A., a wholesale re-evalua..
tion should be taking place.- not only
reversing the verdicts of the past,
which assured us that Soviet missiles
were not accurate, but W. question the
judgment of those who were taken in.
- Former Director Turner's friends
are now spreading the. word that. the
reason he fired a flock of hard-liners in
his 1977 purge of realists was somehow
connected to an investigation of rene.
gade agents selling.: terrorist, tech-
niques to Libya. I think that is part of
hi
s cover-up for being suckered by Mr.
Nosenko, "Fedora" and the disinfor- .
maticn scheme.
The Senate Intelligence Committee
should demand the dropping of the
other shoe in the- Fedora-Nosenko at.
fair, and should find out whether the
three=man White House Intelligence
Oversight Board did its duty in the
Wilson-Terpil Libyan affair.. -
In the Ford - years, the ? Oversight :
Board was set up to deal with intelli
-
gence abuses and its members were
active; in the Carter years, the three
men met every three weeks and
rocked no boats; since June 5, when
Mr. Reagan accepted the board's I
resignation. it has been out of },,.e:_
1
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r ed
th
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e disbelievers d'+t Someday be arrested before slippin the the President will appoint -
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nion; they were an
umvirate to check abuses, I
pushed out, while analysts who
overruled. embraced Mr. Nosenko were promot- probably headed by Glenn Campbell;'
One of these days a storyof a similar ad? Mr ? Nosenko has been a lecturer at at the time he appoints the 15-member
operation will come out: in Solo, we the C.I.A., teaching counterintelli- Advisory Board to beheaded by Anne
.thought we had two men penetrating gence to our spies, which the writer Armstrong toreview,intelli encual.
the Communist Party apparatus. With Edward Jay Epstein rightly calls "the ity. Wrangling over . the "'Executive
' one of these triple agents dead and the crowning absurdity." Order on Intelligence is understand.
other dying, we can-only surmise the Here is the si able, but to permit four or five months
;extent of that disinformation opera. gaifi
cance: if the to by with no. Oversight Board in
tion. F.B.I.'s "Fedora" tricked ked u us, as the- place cemakesamckeryofoversight.. .
F.B.I_ has believed for some years and The F.B.I. knows it was misled and
With new eyes, we can now look now quietly admits, then we were sys.- moved to
r correct its evaluati
,back and change black to white, cr- tematically misled about Mr. Nosen- the C.I.A. must aohs of
esting the disinformation. What were ko. James Angleton was right, and the finding out _through the pa~trr of
, l",Fedora" and "Solo" sent here to mis- o ndoy twork". at the C.I.A. was dived to make sure It is not s Wbeing
id us about? . ~ r
victimized by a mole or a triplf agent-
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