MORE REDS DEFECTING

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CIA-RDP70-00058R000100040017-8
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RIFPUB
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K
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1
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November 11, 2016
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August 21, 1998
Sequence Number: 
17
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Publication Date: 
December 1, 1954
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NSPR
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NEWARK EW Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP70-00058R000100040017-8 Circ.: e. 256,177 S. 271,741 Front Page Date: Edit Other Page Page .,-1 1 1954 C More Reds Defecting Allen Dulles D clan es Ex-Communists Are Being Questioned CHICAk1O (INS) -Allen Dulles, di ector of the super-secret e - tr 1 Intelligence 1. Agency, say4 " any more iig evel" Red" !a ents have defected to the West a d are now being. questioned by t United States. He disclosed in a Chicago s eech last night that public an- n uncements of these new defec- ti ns "are bring held back for the ti ie being so that we can 'delve ore deeply into each case." Dulles said the reason for con- t' ued secrecy at this time is .to ,p ece together information o j t le dommunist intelligence ap- p ratus. He did not further describe t ese "high level defections" Li r veal when they had taken place where the CIA was holding the I f rmer Rol agents Key Police Agents He said the casesinvolve'd ke ed ".secret police agents" an i dicated the men and disclosure ouid rank in importance wit ,cent aefecti~uns of MVD officer i Germany Poland and Australi While Dulles mentioned _n ames, it was apparent he wa eferri,ng to secret police chi ozef Swiatlo of Poland and Ru ian MVI) agent Vladimir Petro r nd Capt. Nikolai_ Khokhlov. All three had fled to the wes ,. eektng political sylum. Throug wiatlo the, N,o Field myste as unraveled, through Petr he tied uAderground in Austral as uncovered and throe hokltlov the inner workings of ed assassins' ring were expose Seldom Talks Publicity Dulles, whose sensitive, positi- s head oi America's princip e 1 spionage agency, has' made hi in infrequent public speak , chose a private dinner of t e` University of Chicago Law Scho 1` alumni to describe. Commun t, espionage techniques, and C counter-measures ' . - He stressed he was outlini g } Red subverrtssgieevve gqmethods'to sh how which is.baSe'B h~Lt!t Ar roved laws can deal with the subversi e= threat of international com a4 CPYRGHT For Release : CIA-RDP70-00058R000100040017-8