HUNDREDS SPYING FOR RUSSIA IN U.S., PRIZE DEFECTOR REVEALS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700110005-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: November 20, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

PIILAtZL':iIA, PA.
INQUIRER 9
Comes O u f- of the Cold
hundreds .Sl
fog Russ1. a ui:Z DefectOr e. Iteve
By THOMAS B. ROSS a massive campaign of es- . DUNGE, in CIA parlance,: -In 1956 he married Wal- his account in 3loscow and
Special to The Inquirer pionage against the United -`. was an "illegal," that is entina Rusch, an East der- 'the Runges lived in Germany
And Chicago Sun Times States and its Allies, a. spy who slips into another on their business earnings.
man working for Soviet Intel-
WASHINGTON. :,. . ., , country ' and operates under Runge operated effectively
EXPLOITING a prize Rus- an assumed name and na- : ligence, and together they as a Soviet spy until last sum-
Sian defector, the Central mHE CIA' is asserting, inVtionality.. He reportedly told slipped into ;West Germany. mer when he and his family
Intelligence Agency has em- connection with the Runge the CIA this story. There, they operated first a returned to the Soviet Union
barked on an unusual asan to -ease, that: - He was born= 1i - the. dry ."cleaning establishment for-a` vacation at an intelli-
expose the dangers of Soviet -Hundreds of agents such Ukraine in 1928. of parents `of and later a vending-machine gene. officers' retreat on the
espionage, as Runge 'are spying in the 'German' extracti u. During business in Cologne as cover Black Sea.'
Normally the :'most secre- United States and other West- the Second World War, the for their espionage activities. Runge was called to. Mos-
tive arm of the Government, ern countries and that the Nazi invaders sent him to . s s s cow, awarded a. medal, in-
the CIA has decided to. make network is being expanded. Germany to work. UATGE recruited two prin. formed that be was to learn
public some of the revelons -The KGB, the Soviet ? in- After, the war lie Became R cipal agents: Leopold Pie- English possibly for assign-
of Yevgeny Y. Runge,Ja 39- telligence organization, em- a Red Army interpreter and schel, a key official in '_ha anent in the United States-
year-old Russian intelligence Ploys 600,000 to one million then joined Soviet intelligence . French Embassy :a Bonn, and that he and his wife were
officer who defected in West persons at home and abroad, in 1949. He received intensive and Heinz Sutterlin, an East to leave their son behind on
Germany last month. but only 10,000 of these are training, as an "illegal" from German who successfully car- their -next mission.
The principat purpose is to engaged in foreign intelli- 1952 to, 1955. ried out orders to marry a * '? ?
sound a note of caution to gence. The- rest are involved - He was given the as- secretary in the German For- TIISENCHANTED with the
those. citizens and officials in internal security, border sumed name of Willie Kurt eign Ministry. 11 wearying life of a spy,
who, the CIA believes, are en- patrol and the guarding of Gast and the assumed birth. In .1960 Runge moved to 'annoyed with the KGB's bu-
gaged in wishful thinking Russian leaders. place of Duninowo, a town in Frankfurt, opened 'a tavern, reaucracy, attracted by life
about the possibility of a -The Russians rely princi- the. border area which s:iifted had a' son, and established in the West, and most of all
peaceful acs ommodation with pally `upon Soviet and satel- from German to Polish con- himself as a solid family unwilling- to leave' his son,
the Soviet Union. . lite citizens for their spies, trol `after the i ar. Runge man.. He rose to the rank of.. Runge decided to defect-
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s are be. whereas the United States re- spent two weeks there in 1954 lieutenant colonel in the KGB He convinced Yuri V. An-
ing advanced as proof that cruits natives of Eastern Eu- familiarizing himself with his with a monthly salary of $420. dropov, head of the KGB,
the R'. Mans are conducting rope and Russia for its agents. assumed background, The money was credited to that too much suspicion
would be aroused if he did
not return from his vacation - '
and so he' was allowed to go`
He managed to photograph
his personnel file before,de?
parting in. order to prove his
identity to the CIA.. .... .
Last month Runge carried .;
out his plan of defection and
was immediately whisked: to'-
the the United States. He was en-
sconced. with his family in a
CIA "safe" house an d,; pas
spent the ensuing -days 'under'
His information has led to
the arrest or surveillance, af.
intimations that he may. also , point the way to spies in the
United States.
He is still talking. and will
undoubtedly provide ever
more details for the cam-
paign to restrain those the,.
CIA thinks are too rapidly,
"building bridges" to the So-
viet. Union.
Approved For Release 2004/12/15 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000700110005-1