RED AGENTS EXPAND ACTIVITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R000300340110-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 8, 2001
• Sequence Number: 110
• Publication Date: May 5, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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FBI Director J. Edgar Iioover faces an. ex-
-c. activity of Soviet agents he."Enemy
espionage rings are more intensely operated now
than at any time in history," he says. CIA Direc-
tor Richard M. Helms echoes this statement on an
t ational scale.
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Intelligenceservfce believes in an exercise of
tyranny through the exploitation of fear. Only if an
agent has a wife and family that can be disgraced
or imprisoned if the agent _goes "bad" can the
masterswarn their other agents and theie families'
what to expect:
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Within a period of a few months not too long FICTION AND TELEVISION nohdthstanding,
ago, worl6ide, 107 Soviet agents were uncovered. women are seldom incorporated into the Soviet:
Forty-five had diplomatic cover, 30 more were espionage apparatus except as decoys or routine.
called journalists, and the Kremlin passed off 15 informers. The Kremlin fears women may become
as businessmen, five more as Airflot airline es- emotionally involved. A regular Soviet woman
ecutives and six as cultural experts. agent is rarely yaid more than $100 a month,
which is about their level worldwide.
The FBI finds that Soviet Embassy staffs con-
tain anywhere from 50 to SO per cent espionage Soviet agents usually establish the Identity of
personnel and that at least SO per cent of the their "control" at a rendezvous by producing a
U.S.S.R. and Sovict-bloc delegations at the United dollar bill with the consecutive serial number to a
nations in New York are intelligence officers and been the "control" As carrying. Tis
tube chose by will both
trot diplomats at all.
nearly any known micro-transmitter..
THE ,HOST-PROMISING Soviet agents are
trained at a secret center near Kutchinsk, outside Accordingly, agents use public telephones that,
Moscow, and the best of that crop are qupertrain- are near neon suns, if they can. They also keep a
ed at Barkovo, 40 kilometers from the city. The glass of water or a cup in front of their mouths
Immense new Aerodynamic Institute is their cover P:hhile speaking in a restaurant, for they know
and the elite are housed in an old 15th Century that an expert FBI lip reader can tell what they'
czarist chateau across the Vereyka River. are saying from serveral tables away.
At Barkovo selected agents are sent abroad for
about a year to familiarize the selves with the
target country; chiefly the Unit med States. Then
they are brought back to Barkovo, where they are
trained another seven or eight years - as long as
that - and returned to the target country.
g4any are "made vinto cizens
a full mange ofifalthe
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target country, equipped
documents. Each is skilled enough to get a good
position in government, scientific centers, defense
or communications industries, etc.
EVERY GOVERNMENT in the world, includ-
ing ours, is penetrated by a combination of enemy
agents and traitors - traitors predominating. The
sole question is: To what extent?
For example, a senior U. S. diplomat, never
publicly disclosed, secretly 'committed a security
breach. He was quietly permitted to resign. His
trail led back through eight previous posts, all the
way from West Berlin to Panama to Warsaw, with
much evidence that he had been in the Soviet ser-
vice ft full 18 years.
The Soviet likes its agents to be married. Its
SOME CAttilY a small pressure-packed
canister with odorless gas. It squirts easily, hits
you fast and leaves you unconscious but otherwise
unharmed. For example, at a dinner in Odessa,
the American Naval, 'Marine and Air Attaches
front our Moscow Embassy were all. knocked out
this way. Their papers and effects were searched .
and photographed before they regained con-
sciousness.
Other Soviet agents for their own emergency'
suicide are given the Russian version of the
Gestapo's "KCB" Cyancide pill. It combines con-
centrated hydrocyanic compounds so powerful
that suicide is almost instantaneous - even the
fumes can kill.
In any case, no Red agent can afford to Mir.
.His -Moscow's 'masters, point of puncture is the
back of the neck. But even if the agent succeeds in
our country or elsewhere it may be a false dreamt
The Soviet frequently fools its agent by telling him
it will put huge amounts of rubles in escrow for
'him in Moscow. Then the masters liquidate the
agent for knowing too much when lie comes hone;,
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