EDITORS TOLD KEY RUSSIANS SERVE AS SPIES FOR CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00161R000400210082-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 20, 2014
• Sequence Number: 82
• Publication Date: April 15, 1971
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release @ 50-Yr 2014/02/21 : CIA-RDP84-00161R000400210082-7
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WASHUGTON ? The Cent rd
Intelligence Agency says it has I
penetrated the Soviet government I
with a "number of well-placed"
Russian spies.
Richard M. Helms, in his first
public speech in five years as I
director of the CIA, Wednesday
cited the spies' key role in the 1962 I
Cuban missile crisis and implied I
that some ? of them are still
operating in the Soviet Union.
By surfacing the claim at this
time; Helms apparently sought to
serve notice to The Kremlin that
the United States has secret ways
of checking on its good faith in
current negotiations on strategic
weapons, the Middle East and
other critical issues.
SAID Till: CIA was
able to detect Russian missiles in
Cuba in 19'32 "thanks to U - 2
photography of the Soviet Union
and to a number of well-placed
and courageous Russians" who
provided crucial details on Soviet
missile systems.
Helms was asked later if he was
referring to Col. Oleg V.
Penkovsky, the Soviet military
intelligence official who served as
a double agent for both the CIA
and British intelligence. Helms
,replied that his remarks covered
iPenkovsky and "others."
Penkovsky was arrested Oct. 22,
;1962, at the height of the Cuban
missile crisis, and eNectited May
16, 1963. But the Soviet
government has made no public
mention of additional spies in the
case.
SPErril thus left the
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implication that "other" CIA
agents remain in place inside the. ?
Soviet' Union.
I-lelms obtained clearance from!
President Nixon befole accepting
the invitation to speak before the
annual convention ef thei
American Society of Newspaper
Editors.
Herbert G. Klein, the I
Pr esi dent's communications
director, saw nothing unusual in '
the CIA making a public defense
of its operations at this time.
But Helms' speech created a
considerable stir in view of thr:
current clamor over Army and
FBI "sypinr on civilians.
!went to great lengths to iosist that
the CIA has "no domestic security
role."
"We do not target on American
citizens," he said.
DE DENIED AS !`vicious" a
charge that the CIA is involved irk
the world drug, traffic. Sell;
George McGovern, D-S.C.
demanded Wednesday that the CO
and the State Department
investigate a 1 le gat ions by
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taeilitatcs the movement of opium
out of Southeast Asia.
Helms conceded, on tlie other!
?tand: "Our mission, in the eyes
of many thoughtful Americans,
may appear to be in *conflict with
some of the traditions at .1 ideals
of a free society . rt.eitions
that the Central Intelligence
Agency is an 'invisible
government' ? a law unto itself,
engaged in provocative covert
activities r epugnant to a
democratic society and subj2ct to
no controls. .
"It is difficult for mc to agree
with this view, but I respect it."
Declassified and Approved For Release @50-Yr 2014/02/21 : CIA-RDP84-00161R000400210082-7