THE SOVIET SPYMASTERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100090047-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: May 22, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

M SATUI DAY EVENING POST MAY 22, 1965
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Affairs of State, by Stewart Alsop
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powerless to staunch the flow, of facts and non- , ada. Antonov
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facts about the CIA. Typical of the non-facts.'; nov, is now in Moscow as
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is the notion that the CIA was principally re , Latin-American section of the KGB
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sponsible for the tragic assassination of South Lukyanov's first major
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n the;
' Vietnam's president Diem. This is a main KGB hierarchy came in 1956, when he re- .i'~'~?:
theme of Morris West's best_se11:n
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The Ambassador-and it is totally untrue. secretary in the UN Secretariat. Shortly there-
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ch are much more dam- , after, Reino Hayhanen, an incompetent, hard-
aging to intelligence operations, a choice collec- drinking Soviet spy in the Rudolf Abel ring, de-
tion is to be found in The Invisible Government, fected to the CIA in Paris on his way back to
a less recent best-seller by David Wise and Moscow from New York. Iayhanen 'testified
Thomas Ross. Wise and Ross are extremely that Svirin gave him and other Soviet a
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competent reporters-too competent. They , their espionage assignments
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WASHINGTON:
w o as been, or this sort of thing they would certainly have
recruited into a Soviet spy net gets caught--:.: been imprisoned in England or France and
like Robert Thompson, whose peculiar story be- - summarily executed in the Soviet Union.
gins in this issue of The Post, or Sgt. Jack Dun- To even the score a bit
there foll
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- lap, whose story was told in The Post last year. names of a number of the KGB's chief opera-
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the professional Soviet spymasters who recruit The list starts with the name of Pavel Lukya-
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this country. Certain interesting facts about the in the Soviet Embassy. He is an unremarkable-.
can now be reported.. build, brown hair brushed straight back. But
Reporting these facts may help to even the ; he has a remarkable job Ile
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score *bit between the new chief of the Central chief," or No. 1 man, in the KGB's espionage'
Intelligence Agency, Vice Adm. W. F. Raborn.' 'apparatus in this country. The KGB station
Jr., and his Soviet opposite number, Vladimir chief in Washington certainly outranks in im-
Semichastny, chief of the formidable KGB. In
portance every other KGB a
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the nature of things, Semichastny has a big. cept possibly the station chief in Peking. As
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aborn. Semichastny, still in his this pre-eminence suggests, Mr. Lukyanov,
early 40's, has been in the cloak-and-dagger' at 39
has had a not
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in
business all of his adult life, while Raborn, a.,' his chosen field.
pleasant-mannered man of 59, is new to the. Mr. Lukyanov has from the start specialized
business. But Somirhastn.r r
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the work of .r+u mirhastn"r
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eign espionage ever appears in print in the , tremely extensive Soviet espionage apparatus in
Soviet Uninn
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American press, while no less than four UN cov6r include Lev Burd
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novels in which the CIA plays the role of villain Antonov, and Mikhail Svirin. Burdyukov, who
have been published i
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