WIFE OF SOVIET DEFECTOR SAYS THE C.I.A. MAY HAVE CAUSED HIS DEATH

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• Publication Date: May 25, 1978
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By NICHOLAS M. HORROCK
spechi to rap-New YO& 73mer
WASHINGTON, May 24-The wife of
a Soviet defector has asked President
"Carter and the Senate Intelligence Com-
rY,tttee to investigate disclosures-.that'
have led her 'to suspect that her hus-1
:`band's life may have been needlessly sac-1
rificed by the Central Intelligence, Agency
in a counterintelligence operaton.. -..;..
letters prepared by her lawyer and
sent to Senator Birch Bayh, the.-Indiana
Democrat who heads the intelligence
committee. and President Carter, - Eva,
'Shadrin, the defector's wife,: said that. in,
the two and a: halt 3?ears since her hus-
aiid disappeared in Vienna she had.
information that contradicted offi-
ge6n and the White House.
Mrs Shadrin says that she has recently
received information that indicates.- the
C.I.A. may have used her husband to help
solidify the position of a Soviet agent
in the Soviet intelligence service despite
the fact it strongly suspected the Russian
was an agent provocateur.
If this is true, she said in an interview,
this would have-been a needless and cyni-I
cal use of her husband's life. Mrs. Sha
drin, who has been trying to find out'
what happened to her husband since his
disappearance, told `officials of both the
C.I.A. and F.B.I. about the information,
through her lawyer in April. She was
advised that the two agencies had told.
her- all they could under national security
regiiilatios and that they did not know!
what?ha!d happened to Mr. Shadrin.
>In, her letter to Mr. Carter, she renewed'
herappeal for an audience and entreated
him to 'help her find her husband or the.
truth about his fate.
The request -for an investigation basil
brought renewed attention here to -the-)
murky world of defectors and double'
agents.
.Nicholas G. 'Shadrin Is the Americanj
name of Nikolai F. Artamanov command-
er of a Soviet Navy destroyer who defect
edto the United States in 1959. Mr. Sha-
drirf disappeared in Vienna on Dec. 20,
1975, ostensibly while on the way to:
Contradictions Are Noted M ..: F
Mrs. Shadrin, who accompanied her:
husband on the Vienna trip, said she was:,
told later by the F.B.I., the. C.I.A. and
the White. House that at.the time of his,
disappearance her husband was serving
as a "double agent"- for the F.B.I. and'
the C.I.A.
She said._that the agencies had -told
her that he had become a double agent
in 1966 after he reported-that members
of the K.G.B.; the Soviet intelligence sere
ice, had tried .to recruit; him .while- h
was living here and worl4rig -as it. core lilt
ant 'for the Defense Intelligence Agency.
But Mrs. Shadrin .and her lawyer. Rich-
ard D. COpaken, said that new infarma;
lion, in press reports and from sources$
they had interviewed, sharply contradict
ed this.version.
Mrs. Shadrin said that she believed that
her husband might have been sacrificed
to aid the C.I.A. in its dealings with a
Soviet official named Igor, who first ap-
proached the agency by calling the home
of its director in May 1966 and offering
his services to penetrate the K.G.B. He'
held out the promise that he could be
the C.I.A.'s man in the higher echelons
of the Soviet intelligence service.
Part of the story of. Igor was published
two weeks ago in Time magazine and
independently confirmed by The New
York Times.
According to. former intelligence offi-
cers, one of the tidbits Igor offered to
get the relationship under way was the;
charge that a longtime Soviet operative
for-the C.I.A. code-named Sasha was in i
fa.cl`;a K.G.B. plant. By this time Sashai
had been brought. back from. foreign as-
signment and was living in Virginia under
the name Alexander Orlov
Igor told his C.I.A. contacts that to)
prove his. value to his superiors and t
obtain a permanent- at.. the
Soviet Embassy here, he needed to recrui
Mr. Shadrin as a double agent.
Mrs.. Shadrin and her lawyer said they
believed - that this was the real. reason
that in dune 1966 Adm. Rufus W: Taylor,
then Deputy Director of Central Intelli-
gence, urged' Mr...Shadrin to take air: the
risky assignment. They charged that: the
next nine years, during which. Mr. Sha-
drip kept..in contact with Soviet agents
at the instruction of the CJ.A. and F.B.I.,
were a waste because- the Americi}n"a
thorities had strong suspicions that Igor"
that C.I.A. and F.B.I. officials were deeply
skeptical of Igor's "bona fides," the infor-I
Approved
legitimacy of defectors and penetration!
agents.
control on two trips to Vienna, one in " `
Several preseiit'and former intelligence
officers told The Times that the publica-
tion of Igor's name and the details of
his case endangered "hislifeand others,"
as one source put It, and was detrimental,
to United States security. . _ . , I
Yet _ the Russians',.themselves seem:
aware of many. of 'the:. contradictions ini
tjte' Shadrin story On Aug. 17?'1977, in
response to the first press report her
about. Mr. ? Shadrin's plight,awvell-known
Soviet journalist, Genrikh Borovilt,'.pub-
lished the Soviet side of the story in an
article; in Literaturnaya Gazeta, a weekly]
newspaper.
The article.-was unusual in that It. Is
rare for Soviet publications to discuss
their intelligence operations: or refer to
K.G.B. files. Mr- Borovii_ _ uses as the
pseudonym for the K.G.B.'.,agent: in- the
article the name Igor ; Aleksandrovieh
Orlov.
This seems to couple .the Igor of the
telephone call with. the named. used by
the agent called Sashes since-Sasha is`
a short form for Aleksandr.
C.I.A. Complicity Suggested .-
The 'article suggests that. instead o
.Soviet agents capturing Mr. Shadrin; the
C.I.A. may have had complicity in his
disappearance to= avoid the embarrass
meat of his returning to the Soviet Uniott
and publicly denouncing C.I.A. methods:
Mrs, _Shadrin said_thaL thelgor matter
was not the only contradiction-she -had
found between her own investigations
and the official 'information given her.
She said that when she accompanied Mr.
Shadrin in his flight from Poland in, 1959,
she believed that his defection was an
imprcniptu act to permit them to mary
-and live in the-Westr - A
She said she had now received-infol~
mation that her, husband wasinfactre
ccruited for the C.I.A. by Indonesiarrilavy
officers whn wt- ~ being traiged by Mr.
-Shad?ih 'aiid.-others at the Pom Poo
of Gdynia.
In ner letter'-to the-Senatecorhri ittee,
she saidthis factor placed a whole new
complexion on her -husband's decision
:1966 to work as a double agent and sue
Bested that he, had littlechoice: but., to
take on the assignment..
- There is no firm indicaatiorr of Mr. Sha
drin's fate since his disappearance.-The
-C.I.A:? has -said it'bekeves. that. h -was
.killed or kidnapped bythe K.G.B - The
If the American intelligence servicesi
doubted Igor,.- Mrs..- Shadrin said in an.
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". :. Shadrin disappeared after United Ste.
lessly thrust him into the role of double age
It was through a stunning succession
of blunders, carelessness, and inexcus.
able acts of intelligence greed span-
ning a sixteen-year period that the
United States lost its most valuable
Russian military defector. The missing
man is believed to be either dead or
incarcerated in the Soviet Union.
There are still questions which prob-
ably never will be satisfactorily an-
swered, but all indications are that
the man known as Nicholas George
Shadrin was kidnapped by the Soviets
through the fault. of American intelli-
gence agencies. There is little reason to
believe that he redefected voluntarily,
that he was. killed by the CIA (as the
Russians have insinuated), or that,
tired of being a pawn for both sides,
he decided to create a new life for
himself somewhere in the world.
Shadrin disappeared . in Vienna in
December 1975, after United States
intelligence had senselessly -thrust him
into the immensely dangerous role of a
double agent working with the KGB,
the Soviet secret service. He vanished
under circumstances that make it clear
that he was cruelly used by his su-
periors as bait for the Russians. Spies,
after all, are expendable when they
become a problem.
That Shadrin, a gregarious, intelli-
gent, onetime Soviet Baltic-fleet de-
stroyer commander, was recruited by
the CIA in 1959, and had not simply fled
to the 'Vest to marry the woman he
loved--as alleged at the time by him
and the United States government--
It'explains why he agreed to serve
as a double agent under extremely bi-
zarre and controversial conditions, and
it may also help to explain the strange
behavior, after his disappearance, of
two succeeding administrations, their
unwillingness to open secret intelli-
gence files on him to his wife and her
lawyer in their search for the truth, and
the glaring inconsistencies encountered
during a private investigation of the
Shadrin case.
Defectors. are one of the most sensi-
tive subjects in -intelligence operations,
after all, and neither the administration
on the highest level nor. senior intel-
ligence officers are prepared to discuss
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chant-marine captain). It was a point C
less deception, because he, testified as,
Artamonov in an open session of the
House Committee on Un-American Ac-
tivities in September 1960, and the
audience included a Soviet diplomat
busily taking notes. Afterward, no ef-
fort was made to conceal his real iden-
tity, and Shadrin was the nearest thing
to a public figure in intelligence circles.
This was the first major blunder and
led to all the others.
Nobody, it seems, wishes to delve.
into intelligence secrets that could
cause considerable embarrassment -to
various theories surrounding the Shad- -. the United States. Full disclosure could, I
rin case. (This reluctance was further for example, highlight the sixteen years
enhanced by the defection last month
of Arkady N. Shevchenko, the Soviet
diplomat who served as undersecre-
tary general of the United Nations in
New York. Shevchenko is the greatest
diplomatic intelligence prize ever won
by the United States.)
At first, Shadrin was worth his
weight in gold to the United States. At
the time when the Soviet Union
launched a major buildup of its navy,
the information brought by Shadrin
was crucial to the United States Navy.
After he outlived his usefulness, how-
ever, he was transformed into a double
agent to satisfy the insatiable appetite
of American intelligence. If it were not
for this greed, Shadrin would be living
tranquilly in the United States today,
like other Soviet defectors.
His name originally was Nikolai
of blunders surrounding Shadrin's ac-
tivities in this country and abroad,
methods employed .by American intel-
ligence, and conflicts involving the CIA,
the FBI, and the Pentagon's Defense
Intelligence Agency.
Shadrin was not a run-of-the-mill
spy or defector: He had high-level ac-
quaintances and friendships in Ameri-
can intelligence, which made him a
vulnerable figure.
One friend was Admiral Rufus L.
Taylor. who, as director of naval intel-
ligence, was his boss during the time
the Russian ex-officer served as a spe-
cial consultant to the navy. And Ad-
miral Stansfield Turner, for example, 11
got to know Shadrin sufficiently well
to write him "Dear Nick" letters (Shad- I
tin had lectured at the Naval War Col-
Mystery men- CIA fires yielded these pho-
1
. now, and it she ~yd a 1~ ar qz~ Mares R Agems t31eg Korlov (left) 011 Mal on his covert relatio s with the Ameri- after his arrival to the ni eQ iryshe~u (center), possebly
can intelligence establishment. he changed it to Shadrin--after the hero the last men to see Shadrin (right) alive. I
was a closely, guarded secret, until
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ing from the late 1950s through 1977 to Berkeley's political science gradu- CIA. In the summer of 1966. Inter-
' ate school. Apparently, the agent's views also established the names of
have been released under the- Free- only interest was. to pursue academic several professors referred to in the
dom of Information Act and made studies. documents. ,::.:
available to the Los Angeles Times. Vice.Adm. Rufus B. Taylor, former
They cover a wide range of coopera- The Freedom of Information re-
uty director of the CIA
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university, several of its nine cam- University of California was origi- .+Bolton's service, saying he was
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of California Reldizons
By Narda Zacchino ? A series of CIA-sponsored semi-
and Robert Scheer nars in Berkeley and other locations
Loa Angeles Times with professors thought to be friendly
LOS ANGELES-A long history of to the agency, to share information.
contacts between the Central Intelli? ? Providing a steady flow of CIA lug documents under the Freedom of 1
gents Agency and the University vice , materials on China and the Soviet Un- Information Act, the names of princi-
pre
s California-highlighted by a UI; vice ion to CIA-approved professors. pal parties are blanked out. An inves-
presi dent's tour of duty with the CIA ? At least one instance in which a tigation by the Times determined that
during the height of student unrest- it was former administrative 'vice
is revealed in documents released by CIA staff person asked a Berkeley po- president Earl Clinton Bolton who
rofessor to use his in_'
the CIA. ?- litical science
pules and the intelligence .,agency; nally filed in May 1978 by Nathan
including- ..:. Gardels, a political science student in administrative matters invalvin'g
? The UC vice president's two-week and UCLA research assistant. The re- the knowledge of student affairs.
quest was endorsed by a number of University officials expressed con
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tour with the CIA during which he ad-
wised the agency on such matters as UC's student and staff groups. earn over the documents relating to
student unrest, recruiting UC stu- But the CIA has released only a the role of Bolton, who used Univer
dents, academic cover for professors' . portion of the documents, and the pri- city of California letterhead station-
doing research for the CIA and im- vate Center for National Security cry to correspond with Taylor,
proving the agency's public relations Studies in Washington Joined Gardels UC President David Saxon saidBol-
image on UC campuses. to file appeals. The center Is expected ton violated university policy by using
--- . the letterhead,' 'while Saxon's rxecu-
tive assistant, David Wilson, said Bol-
ton used "poor judgment'.:; in his work
this week to file a lawsuit to force the
CIA to release the rest of the docu-
ments. ' -
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flee and maintaining -liaison with
headquarters of the 'Atamie' Energy-.
agencies- and major ABC labs and con-
ducting negotiations for . renewal of
t- three major AEC contracts ,with the
''Belton `retired ' from- the university*?:.
..In 1970 after 10 years and is now, a
vice president in the Los Angeles of
international'managementi ~eonsultant
firm. He said he would.`.'neithei con-
firai'norc" deny" that ? he spent those
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Can an A!nzrican citizen sign away,
.is rights under the First Amendment?
lpparentiy he can, because it hap-
-en.d to a-trhor Victor Marchetti.
It all brean:,then Marchetti submit-
x'rl his re = n- tirm to the (:'cntral Iil.-
-elli ence A_ency in 1969. One, of the
irs calls 1'e reeved was from Rich-
_rd Helms, then the CIA's director,
,to sei-uiianed him to Its office for a
ha t.
After MarCiv' i explained that he
,ad Income di c-nchanted with the
'IA and ir= covwrt operations, Helms
aid, "I don't suppose there's anything
c in do to r,;,k-e you change your
.rind. What are your plans?"
"I think Fri going to write a hoot:,"
-Aarchetti said.
"Oh, that's interesting,'.' Helens re-
Wed. "If your want us to type it for
-ou. we Witt."
The CIA didn't tyre the book, but
t did review it for secret information
-ender a contract that Marchetti had
?igned when he mined the CIA grant-
hg the agency censorship ptiwe_?s.
Chat book was a novel, "The Rope
Dancers." a fictional account of life in
be CIA that criticized the agency
i'he CIA censors did not like it, but
hey allowed it to be published. It,
wasn't until .a few years later, when:
Marchetti had decided to do a nonfic
-ion book on the CIA, that the agency;
-racked down.
"I had a meeting in a motel in Ar-
Jnyton with?Adin. Rufus Taylor [his,
-Id boss at the agency]," Marchetti re-ailed in a recent telephone interview.
'lie said, 'Loot:, Victor, they're very
-inch concerned with what you're
ioing. Let's make a deal. Don't go on
he lecture circuit, be careful what you
vrite and what you say on radio and
3'V. Write your book and then we will
-eview it and you and the agency can
tctotiate your differences.' So we
ploy ees and tedl reasonably sure Will,
they :% ill be supported by the Supreme
Court.
.,...,ahctti, who was ?Ith die CIA
from 1955 to 1939 and held sensitive
1;o::4 in tl?,,e office of tine director, said
he .., . mixer fcathe = about the Sn-
:reltle ~' : t'~ TBttllire- to take up the
case. On tl-,,e one hand, h is di. ap-
,greed on that. I gent norne and cittt rCt he r;tit cn the o l-,er he
tartO to work on the bfok. 't'hen one and is compensated for the surrender
and' ticm that the g n_
int.
day about a 'week later the doorbell by r, the Clary the CIA. pays h cv "_ ?_i't ;tr::?en; from Criticizing it,
therefore, the T iarcl:etti case is not a
-ruts; and it was the U.S. marshals ; ;tdti.;a s W C;Ii'c ('ell: O1;i1111J 1
,~
I''il`st At' encrnent issue, according to :ml - .:r to
hey had :lib aellas and in unctiolts,
P ~ ~? lenity ;:1F' i'ri;;i':r:a.
the agency, but a question of contract.
end tlunrts.' "We foe' that the Supreme Court satis-` EtQr.1Z i.,,> ,'.
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not a 1 ?rst. Amendment question," a
CIA sour: e close to the case said.
Thus Began a long and historic legal What it ccni 'c down to is. the a
battle over what now is a celebrated ev'.s fear that vital secrets regardin
book, "The (.IA and he 170t of Intel- I:'ethrc'r, ; =1 o^er ti' ns may be
ligence." by Marcl'.e.ti anti his collabo- I'eoled by i.-;.employees and thus
rator, John D. Marls-c'ciehratod be-' perdue the r:aticnal scent'ity
cause it is tn,r ;i:- book ever Marchetti, on the odwr hand. ar
published In America :','1111 rara_raph- that some 01 the cut the (IA lied
sized bl; nl: spaces and the word firs- the mock ware nor secret but cool
METED printed in bur;: ce type 133 1cUnd in the _ ,:bbe domain. He
times. claims Out he I I A N " c rota' were of
The legal battle reached a climax on the 01nd tt t A ,e pt t~i hcul:i l.new STAT
May 2! when the U.S. SL:,-rime Court, and that no rea.ronahie interest of rhot
for the second time, let stand a federal Un ted States would be injured oy'
court ruling that said, in effect, that their disclosure.
the CIA had the peer,,, right to I-i faCt the CIA itself, which iabel_d
censor ariythin a tt^:r,- en:.1to1-ce his on hell iaa:iUCript. Top S"; -t
wrote-"factual, fictional or other on the question of
wise"-about the CIA. ecrecy. It initially demanded 339
At the heart of the case is the con- deletion:.'.1tt-r considerable wrangling
tract Marchetti signed committing him' with Marchetti and his attorneys, it re-
to CIA censorship. His attorney, Mel- duced the number to 163. One court
vin. L. WulF legal director of the, further reduced the de?etions to 23 but
American Civil Liberties Union, anot:ter court re'nstated the number of
argued that the contract "v.-as illegal cuts to 168 and the book was published
because it deprived hint cif his First I, -_,t y'ce r-it is now oat in Dell pacer-
Amendment rights." The refusal of the back-with that number of dekt.'ons
Supreme Court to revi te case, he v bite the court contest continued.
~?' ta
,:e
says, is an insult to ti-;~?; I?a'irat Amend- An isipor,aa: Flee erect of the c . will ment and jeopardized the yout-:'s repu- i'-i how pti':!ishb'g firms will react in
tatlon as a responsible ?t..c'.ciici+tl body. the future wren ilre ented with a simi-
It was a failure of their Jr man u.Tript. The puNieh r, Alfred.
c?o11: