SOVIETS SAY U.S. REPORTER WAS SPY

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• Publication Date: July 13, 1977
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Soviets Say U.S. Reporter Was Spy
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tt ? urn the ~eamera and. film, but ,~ a em asst' tide on parapsychology.frortr Soviet
ion today accused a former Americai added that "this is an indication of safely out oofthe oun } Be he's ;4 scientist Valery
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newsman here, Robert C. Toth
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es of doing television in afford to say an
ing worked for U.S. intelligence agen. the Soviet Union, even on an innocu- 'n they want to." Dissident sources said today that, and said that it was only. due to ous subject .91 [William Thomas, editor of the Los Petukhov was released after spending
the, "good will and restrai
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the Tass four days in KGB custody. authonttes that ? permitted to leave charges "ridiculous.
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treason charge
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our other dissident physi-
,o,spread over six days. Today's Tass article broadened the It "other specifically, the CIA Gists appealed to scientists attending
i In another incident involving an attack against Toth, saying and other espionage agencies, related an international conference .near Mos-
that he instance to the Penta on" as en- cow to take up the case of human
Att att journalist today, CBS corre. had "received assignments not so for gages nsive subversive activi- ,
i, spa it Bernard C. Redmont and his much from the Los Angeles Mmes as
was ar-
roughed rights activist Yuri Oriov, wwho
,; oughed up German while filming cameraman were ? from American special ties. rested last February and reportedly I
' agencies.. The U.S. embassy spokesman here faces charges of anti-Soviet slander.
a Moscow While fulfilling these assignments,. noted that the Soviets had previously
^:rbeer; garden and then questioned by Toth tried to make the acquaintance ? The senior military adviser to the
police:
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,
inted darkly that they had ook" a-
of Soviet, scientists who he thou ht
S ?Redmont said he 'and 'cameraman could possess information of interest tion that would close the hook" on
Kurt Hoefle had been filming" fort to U.S. special agencies." journalists accused of being CIA
about an hour when two unidentified Toth has denied ollecti se- agents.
r anti suddenly tried to rip the camera eret information during histhree-year yThree American Journalists ac.
L away, kicking IHoefle. ' Moscow assignment and the U.S. em- cused a year ago in' an article in the
i" Uniformed and plainclothed police bassy said today, "We repeat what we Covewent-controlled press of being
4roke up the melee and took the CBS said earlier - agents denied the charge and the
aMAO a "Police station where they bor. Toth was a authorities have produced no y journalist engaged in legitimate jour- of their alleged intelligence "Proof"
iiil e questioned for about an hour. ? naliistic activities. by the ties.
were `;auite Asked why Soviet authorities are Toth was detained by the KBG on
dune 11 while he was receiving an ar-
beaten last Thursday by two men near
his home on Manhattan's upper east
side, according to a Soviet letter of
complaint. The Soviet note said the
"premeditated" attack caused "serious
bodily injury" to Col. Vladimir Cher-
nyshev. A New York City police
spokesman said the Soviets nevpr re-
ported the attack and have not al
-
lowed them to interview Chernyshev.
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since the delivery of the protest note
to U.S. officials yesterday.
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