EXTRACTS FROM THE CIC SECRET REPORT DATED SEPTEMBER 19, 1952 REFERENCE NO. S-15032

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• Publication Date: September 29, 1952
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Extracts from the CIC Secret Report Dated September 29. 1952
erence No. S-15032
1) Michael Timofeev9 a refugee talks to Col. Andreiev of Soviet Mission
nWhen Michael Timofeev entered? he was immediately surrounded by the
members. of the SRM who greeted him profusely. Timofeev immediately stated:
"So you want to speak to me. Wells I have nothing to learn from you but I
can tell you many things. I can tell you how you murdered my father and
-x.other and brothers and sisters and how you beat me,, broke my ribs9 broke
rty leg and crippled me for life. I can tell you how you starved me nearly
to death in a concentration camp. I can tell )row you murdered thousands
of people. I can tell you that I want no part of you and I can tell you
i:.ousands of names who want no part of you".
tcOLZOV; "Did you see your father and mother killed?"
TIMOFEEV: "Yes"?
$HKABARIN. "Did you see your brothers and sisters killed?"
tIMOFEEV. "Yes".
KOLZOV. "How can you believe that thousands were killed,, you did not see
them youself? Where did you hear that thousands of people were
killed?"
TIYMOFEEV. "I saw them myself"?
"After this statement9 there was dead silence in the room. Then Col
^:ndreiev thanked Timofeev and stated that would be all and they did not
desire to talk with him anymore9 whereupon Timofeev stated that he had much
,tore to say to the SRM. He continued as follows. "Look at me,, I am in rags;
I am an old and broken man; however? I have one thing that you never will
have - I have freedom and I have more than one suit to weary ragged as they
c.a.y beg and at night I can sleep a peaceful sleep and do not have to worry
about your swatch dogse11.
"'t this point,, Major Kolzov began a tirade of propaganda; sentimental
:;iatements about the motherland and about the people of Russia; how they were
fi.'bting for world peace,, etc. Whereupon9 Timofeev answered, "Yes, that
sounds good; when you can bring me proof that this is true I and my friends
way believe you; but too many people have come from behind the Iron Curtain
uho have seen that this is not true for me to believe".
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2) A refugee,, Vernevaskaya9 talks with a Soviet member of the Mission:
"Vernevskaya stated that she had nothing to say to them; however, if they
wanted to talk to her she had no objections, When Col Andreiev was
introduced, he asked her the usual background questions and why she did not
return to the SIviet Uton, Vernevskaya answered firmly that the Soviet Union
had absolutely nothing to offer her, that she had found a life in Austria
where she could live and work in freedom and could teach her children to live
in a free and democratic way; and that she had no intention of ever returning
to the Soviet Union. She added further that she had no relatives in the
Soviet Union whom she cared to name, Colo Andreiev then asked if she had
received the propaganda material which he had forwarded to her prtvious
address in Schleedorf? Vernevskaya answered affirmatively and stated that it
was put to good use in the "outhouse", Col, Andreiev blushed at this retort
and asked if she had read the material, She answered emphatically, "No",
Cola Andreiev then requested permission from Maj. Miller and Mr. Kurylehek to
leave some pamphlets, booklets and magazines with Vernevskaya, Permission
was granted by Mr. Kurylchek whereupon Vernevskaya said that the Colonel was
welcome to leave the material but that she would not read it, Col Andreiev
asked Vernevskaya if she knew any other Russian displaced persons in the
vicinity, whereupon Vernevekaya answered that if she did she would not tell
him their names. Conversation was concluded at this point,"
3) At Camp Asten, Linz:
"As Pvt., Holubeck (driver for Soviet Mission) was standing near his vehicle,
ane unidentified individual approached him and stated: "It is too bad there
-re so many Americans here,, otherwise we would string these Soviet dogs to
the highest tree. However, if we did anything in your presence we realize
we would cause trouble for you; therefore, we will not touch them",
4) "Colonel Andreiev (of the Soviet Mission) then changed the conversation
and stated that he realized that there were many things in the Soviet Union
as in other countries that were undesirable. He added that should American
officers come to the Soviet Union and see the Soviet way of life, they would
have a better understanding of it, He added that he himself had considered
the United States as having been always a good friend of the USSR. He
stated emphatically that he did not believe that the United Nations are using
batteriological warfare in Korea added that if he did believe this he
would be so bitter toward the United States that he could not prevail upon
himself to dine in a congenial atmosphere with American Army officers,"
Maj. Miller (charge of the American escort party) referred to Col,
A dreieves invitation to come to the Soviet Zone and asked Col Andreiev what
attitude would be afforded by the Soviet authorities to a request from the US
Element to send a US Repatriation Mission into the Soviet Zones of Germany and
Austria in order to repatriate US citizens who might be there, Col Andreiev
answered that he thought the request would be approved,"
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