RED SPY RING CRACKED IN ITALY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP69B00369R000200090036-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 2004
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: March 22, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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on Allied bases in Italy, Spain
and elsewhere, police said.
More persons connected with
the alleged ring were arrested in
Morocco, Somalia, Cyprus and
Greece, the sources said. Intelli-
gence sources called it one of
the greatest espionage networks
uncovered recently by Western
agents.
They said Rinaldi hid minia-
ture cameras and other spy gear
when he entered U.S. and other
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza-
tion bases in his capacity as
PO ?
300 NATO Officers
Reported Involved
TURIN, Italy (UPI)-An
.Italian parachutist arrested on
espionage charges today gave a
magistrate's court the names of
300 NATO officers allegedly
'involved in the biggest Russian
spy ring in the west, counter
intelligence sources said.
Some of the officers involved.
were said to be Americans.
In many cases parachutist
Giorgio Rinaldi was able to give
parachute ace and instructor.
They said Rinaldi and his wife
used coded radio messages,
invisible ink and microfilm
hidden in drops at such spots as
.the Turin Zoo and imperial
tombs
.
investigators only "cover," The intelligence sourcds said
aliases of the officers, the I Rinaldi has been watched since
sources said. I he was seen with a Soviet lieu-
At least two Russian Embassy
officials were believed implicat-
ed in the plot and informed
sources said they would be
expelled by the Italian govern-
ment.
One Already on Way
One Soviet Embassy employe
,flew to Moscow today, apparent-
ly expelled in connection with
the Mediterranean-wide spy
,ring.
Ffnmicino airport sources
identified the man as Juri
Pavlenco, 35, art attache at the
Soviet Embassy here. He was
accompanied by his wife, Na-
talia, and their 6-year-old son.
The trio were the last to board
the CzechLslova!ian Airlines
plane.
Before uoarding they shook
hands with several Russian.
Embassy employes who had
accompanied them to the air
port.
Government sources refused
to comment on the expulsions.
The sources said the Russians
acted as receivers for the para-
chutist and an antique dealer,
Giorgio Rinaldi, 39, his wife,
Angela, 52, and their chauffeur
'Armando Girard, 401 all of
whom have confessed to spying
tenent colonel in 1956. Suspicions
grew as Rinaldi,. formerly badly
in debt, suddenly grew prosper
ous.
Police arrested Girard_ on his
return from Spain March_15l
The sources said police found in ? 1
his possession microfilm of
allied military bases in Spain.;.;
More such film was found in the
Rinaldi home and antique shop,
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