DEFECTORS RIDDLE 'RFE'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000900090069-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2013
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: October 6, 1957
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

4IW Declassified, and [Approved For Release @ 50-Yr 2013/10/29: CIA-RDP74-00297R000900090069-2
'RADIO FREE EUROPE' direcfo, William 4 E9en, (left], end the, Chief of-Ciethadovek
desk, Ferdinand Peroutka, discuss strategy of broadcasting ciirnpaign. tdComtnitnist-domin-
ated Czechoslovakia.
By FULTON 'LEVVit; 'JR...
WA5T-IINGTbNOet. A.-LFor
the past- ?two. years -there has
been :a sintstert:parade-of-defect-
ors to RedICzechotiovalcia from
the supposedly anti0Coniniunist
staff Cl. ,Radio. Free, Europe in
:
Munich .?.?(financed? by-, your
and
? Dulles' .1 Central ? Intelligence
Ageticy}4.: ?
The Wets have been effectiVe,
ly'liuslied Up, here ? at home by
the private enterprise organiza-1
doh whieh sponsors .arid Oper-
ates' RFE tinder- the? pontifical
? title, "Crusade for 4';''reedolik"..
h.?al'f.' doesirice`ntatiati,
? evei,...ln-al.0 ht.:lean 10" Speelfic
RFE "staff '.'incinherat:47-netil'ilira,
hroadelisterit, ;Writers; propa-
gandists?who turned coat. 10
the CeirimuniSt'' government' in
? ? : ?
One, far example. was Oldrich
,Kticera; alias Flornik, who was
editor iiv"chargii Of the "Work--
-ers'? Program" and :another en-,
titleil 'We Are Called the Com-
munist .Party of 'the _ CSR"
(CzechoStottakian Republic)..
CAPITAL FiEPORT: . vist,. who ,gerved: les liaison ? be-
tween . American ?adrninistrative
"personnel and foreign .langtiage
craPloYes, eat'. , thus.; had. parttc-
War aceeSS to the,'AinericanS.:
A very ,beautiful,,Wornan, she
was married ' to a Russian who
had been 'Part orthe Nazi: Mill-
tarY government in Paris dim: $
lug WO1d War H:'Stee didittielf
work inrefugee tamps and was
colle.cting Information ,ostensib?
ly fat "RFE ?:. '1 "'?
In late, L55 she pretended
to take a *Vacation "ancrgot per-
mission' to- take certain ;Pieces '
of work from: thAeffico7to corn-
plete theta whileshe war-Away.
:.Actually, she tank ? the ,
:hack to the Red lol'ern-
Mott' in Prague, desertlet her
husband, and and she now 'id; em-
plciVed by the' 'Czech Na Ilona]
Batik in 15rague, "na Prikatth.."
Jul!Ralial Was Adrnliarat-
ive Assistant to the head e "he. 4",?.",?
. Refugee Departnient nt RF ':n 4
Munich, and. interrogated
nesses? 17004\111re
:camp.
..
, ?
, STATEDTENTS led the
arrest of a truMber of anti n-
munist employes of R
chatr,es.later proven to,
Re-disappeared behind It .1
Curtain' in late 1956, taking
tensive records with him;
the eesillt that Red police in
ininietliate mass arrests ie
vicinity of the Czech bo-
citizens who had 'helped
to:escape..
Czechoslovakian Ministry of the
'1; 1;.' ;
;Also, there is Ladisiav.Zaple-
"Jai, script . writer ..altd7?Eticrittrgy
the Association ?.Of
Cz?eckaslovakian ..Reftgees, ? As
-;tuch,.-he?Avaai.?custodiari -of all
records, Ades-and information
obtained from refugees! includ- ?
ing much ?material about the
'Czech underground at .home.
'When he left, .he tcrele 't-Very-
thing, With him. He presently
is' in Prague, irr a top positton
the;fite-military- training :or-
ganization, "Svirzarrrt:"
? z
KAREL FOLTAt ? Worker on
the .-etiltdriat ? &Mr,' preparing
skits and scripts for the Youth
Hoar, and Also assisted i in pre.
.paring political ? and economic
praPaganda ''''?!?broadcaati ' "far
beaming to Slovakia I
? , ? .
,le defebtedaftis.,r,rn-
rhr
a's 'Omit his mated": al 'pit
dm ;under sttspfelan. flo In now
in, Bratislava In. charge 4.0f ,a
a A-e COyiit?iinlst 1 tethistrfal
operation and an advisor to the
THE' LATTER TITLE 'turned . con'orn7ntst you 111 Org,11.11.0zrz0
out to he sennething ole meek- clon2
er2.,. After ' Kucera.. disapPeered ' 'ffarcl Malin: Was `chief of the
and turned.up in a ?plush adtaini,,RFIt" Cfrazen-Service deithrtment
istrativelOb neat Prague, it was in Salzburg,: with f access to all
established that his broadcalfn .-files" and retards of that opet-
conpinedseciAl rness'ages. to..aticri And all Yeingees in con-
'fhb _0.yttst tact with it.
.. ? :
tould be dt He ,,diaaPpcared in late 1955
Pliered on the basis a sentence ELIA soLdtd the files and records.
,
structure. ?
He now is employed bylthe corn- nese ,ft,1.44?, &navies;
" At the time he got his .. job mutial *service .cif the cit* of Os... itniicat...-xrusece
, with rtFR in -1952, he was a trava.
secret Intelligence agent for the Marie Dvoraltava: Expert lin:;: ..texlart; e,7 tang Pea iit re a
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Declassified and Approved For Release @ 50-Yr 2013/10/29: CIA-RDP74-00297R000900090069-2