LIVED UNDER ASSUMED NAME AT DELROY RUSSIAN SPY ONCE A YORK COUNTIAN

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 1, 2004
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 25, 1970
• Content Type: NSPR

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York, Pa.
p. 'Lived Under Assumed Name at Deiroy
By HARRY McLAUGHL1N
Of Our York Bureau
YORK ? The people of Del- .
roy, a quiet rural village south
east of York near the Susque-
hanna River, knew John Eu-
gene Linden, and his wife, Anti.
ta H? as an eccentric couple.
Neighbors recall that the small
broad-shouldered, big-necked
man often watered , his lawn
during a rainstorm.
; In Peekskill, N.Y., on Dor-
silee Rd., the same couple was
known as Eugene and Hanna
, Maki. ? ,
The Lindens lived in York
County in the late 1950s and
, early 1960s, and as the Makis
? in the middle 1950s.
The world knew Linden-Maid
as Reino Hayhanen, the Soviet
- Union's No. 2 spy in the United
States until 1957, when he took
asylum in the U.S. Embassy in
Paris and betrayed his boss,
Col. Rudolph Abel, the No. 1
spy.
Hayhanen, a confirmed al-
coholic and lover of vodka, tes-
tified against Abel in the 1957
trial, which divulged the Reds'
network operation in this coun-
try. Abel was convicted and
, later was traded for Air Force
officer Gary Francis Powers in
art exchange between the U.S.
, and Russia.
?
; After the trial, Ha.vhanen
za and his wife sold their small
? home in Peekskill, N.Y. and
: departed for New Hampshire. ,
Hayhanen, when he came to
the U.S, frem Eastern Europe,
where he was the No. I. spy, '
adopted the alias of Maid, as
did his wife, Hanna. He also.
was a bigarniat, having a sec-
'nod wife and son in Russia.
The Makis then changed
aliases and: 'began; signing
documents; etc., as john Eu-
germ Linden and Anita H. They
left Keene, N.H., and came to
Delroy, which then had a mail-
lag address of Hallam RD 2.
The Lindens purchased ,
twe-acre farm and house for
' $10,000, a few yards from East
Prospect Rd. Neighbors said
:their car, upon arrival, 'bore
New Hampshire tags, The
couple frequently had visitors
:Whose cars bore District. of Co-
lumbia teas.
The mystery of the dis-
appearance of the Maki couple
after leaving Peekskill, N.Y.,?
remained just, that until
recently, Even in a new book,
'Abel," written by Louise I3er-
nikow, their whereabouts were
never traced.
Linden died in 1961 at York
Hospital shortly after he was
arrested by city police for
drunken driving. He was rem
resented in, police court the
next day by a New Hampshire
lawyer.
The same attorney assisted
in arranging for the funeral
and settled the estate with the
help of a York law firm.
Perhaps the most conclusive
evidence that Hayhanen, Maki
and Linden were one and the
same man is the signature of
Maki and Linden, The Abel
trial disclosed ? that Hayhanen
? used Maki as an alias.
In West Chester County,
Consistory to Meet
SPRING 'GROVE ..a4 The con-
sistory of St. Peter's' (Lis-
'chey's) United, Church of
Christ, .Spring Grove RD 2, wilt
meet Tuesday .at ,7:4,5 p.m. in
the home of john Spring,
GroVia`RD:;.1.
fingerprints, canna ?be imi, tenigenee Agency, which as.,
Mita. or forged. The_ patterns,. sisted in the quiet dis,
in both instances, are identin appearance of the Maki couple
cal."
= -.---naf,a4rom Peekskill, said the story
R y a 11 said he ctire.fullai? is plausible. So does Atty. Wil
"broke down" every letter el barn Tompkins, who prose-
the names, including 141.npri- acted Abel and later became.
.al initials provided on lieeksk- chief of the Internal Security
ill documents, and "I cadcobivision of the U,S. Depart
firm they are the samd.,7n of Justice.
. When Linden died, burial ar- Tomkins said he talked to
rangements were made with Hayhanen once after the for-
the strictest secrecy, ti1fi,cti.4 lux spy left New York State,
, ing to the Rev. Robert Kale, of and it was in Florida." The
Shfloh, and Mrs. Aw:224,Aey, Mr. Nale, who spoke of
Decker funeral direcnoin 7.4.,y, ten with the Lindens and. tried
were told by complete Raba- to get him to quit drinking vod-
ers, including the New 1141ka_ so heavily, recalled that
shire lawyer, never to disainis Linden told him that he had
the event. 4--a----abeeri to Florida for awhile.
Both parties said recently. when information and evi.
that "we never suspected the' dense secured along the way
identity of Linden until we by The Sunday Patriot-News
read the new book, ,'points directly to Linden ? also
Now, we are convinced.
'and Hayhanen.
who ?The late Linden's wife, who
AS Maki
heiTpehdatheloNcelw Hampshire at- also w,as.an alcoholic, returned
'ternoY, will only say that, to. York after the funeral only
''mys ter y surrounded the once, she came to the York
case." One said later, "I know Hospital , in 196.3 for minor
you're right," in talking to this trea tin e n t, and then dis-
reporter.? appeared.'
The ,New Hampshire lawyer CIA official Houston would
said if Linden was Hayhanen, only say that she is either
"I never knew it.'' -dead, or in Europe.
Lawrence Houston, the gen- The Linden neighbors said
eral counsel for the Central In- additional proof could be se-
cured by "Digging up" the
Middle East Slides large quantity of camera
I t Church
equipment that he was seen to
? Liste a
have "dumped in an-adjacent
SPRING GROVE ? The water-filled ore hole" shortly
Rev. Robert Shipp, of Windsor, after coming to Delroy.
will show slides of his trip to When he was a spy for Ras-
the Middle East in Bethany As- sic, he posed as an owner of a
sembly of God, next Sunday, at 'camera equipment store, and
7:30 p.m. operated the store for a short
He traveled through the 1-1,,oly lime while residing in Newark,
Land, Cairo, Egypt, Jordan prior to going to Peekskill,
and Lebanon. Proceeds from The "Abel" book reported
the affair will be used to fi- me. trial revealed Abel didn't
trust Hayhanen and ordered
school rooms. hint ;returned to Russia.
r.74-i
Reim" Hayhanen
, * *
court house seat for Peekskill,
? the 'signatures of Maki and his
wife appear on a couple of
le-
gal documents, including tine'
authorizing John ?Marback to
be their ."attorney-in-fact."'
In the York County Court-
hourse, the Lindens signed?
similar document naming the
New Hampshire lawyer as
their "attorney in fact."
Photostats of both signatures
were Obtained and analyzed by
York's nationally-known .hand-
writing expert, William Ryall.
'The; same man and woman
Signed both documents," Rya
said. "The letters. of his first
name, Eugene; and her capital
"H's," among 'other 'findings,
proved without a doubt that
they were written by lila same
couple."
' The: graphologist ?aid -fur-
,
ther, 'Signatures; Much like
nance the coat of tiling church
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Remarks:
Here is McLaughlin's latest story. He
misquotes me twice. I did not say the story
was plausible and I did not say that the wife
was either dead or in Europe. I said I did
not know anything about her whereabouts.
I hope this is the end of the matter.
Lawrence R. Houston
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