ESTIMATES 80% OF SOVIET OFFICIALS BASED IN U.S. DOING SPY CHORES
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December 27, 2016
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January 6, 2014
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Publication Date:
October 4, 1965
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Estimates 80% of Soviet Officials
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? To the Editor:: OTHER DEFECTOgS-havt.":
'Ilhc?bispatch rend . rendered a * con firmed that .'iliigh, per- ' ?-?'.
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'service to the people of this ' centage of the SoviCF?offi,', '
community and to the cause . ciais are intelligence arrents.',
of freedom in publishing on As of May,. 1960;? 32'8 So-
the front page (Sept. 28) the ?vict officials Ware sstationad
Associated Press item cOn- in this dounry,?acCompanied:
, caned with the Soviet plot" by 455 dependents, a.consid-
to? discredit the FBI and the erable body of potential in;:??
; CIA: . .
? , .? . telligence sources. ? . _
,?......--..? ? We are presently &intern-.
? We should know that the plating' opening our major.
'Soviet Union has' maintained ? cities to increased numbers;
, a large staff of ? officials in 'of Soviet .agents, through in.
? this country since its first- of
traffic with the So:,.
recognition in 1933, ! viet :Ilnion, in the guise ?of'::
.? THESE OFFICIALS hive. easing communications with ,!
. been assigned to Soviet em- the Russians.
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bassics, consulates, trade ?
i? ? SOVIET satellite officials, .
delegations, news media, the in this country' must be
kUnited Nations, and the AM- added to the number of po-,.
? torg Trading Corporation. tential agents serVing
It. is from these installa:.. Kremlin.
?? tions that the primary'
Meetings. of ? these poten-;
telligopee activities. .are
rected agaihst the Unitild tial saboteurs and assassins:,
are regularly ,held, and , aro'1 .
I under, the direction of :the. ? ?
Soviet .military -attache. "
?. ? It ma'Y be presumed that.
? assignments aro' handed the
I lesser. Soviet agents during ?
-these "secretly'!. held: convp....q
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? States: _ . ? ,
A ?former Sovic.t.
; gence officer who defected
':from ?the' Soviets has ,esti-
lnated. that uP to. 80 per
..cent of the Soviet officials
..in the United 'States have
lizSome ' type ;of., intelligence.
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