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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200030095-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2003
• Sequence Number: 95
• Publication Date: December 19, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

Soviet Envoy Outtalks '
David Susskind on TV
By BEN GRQSS
(Reprinted from yesterday', Late edition.)
Soviet Ambassador. Mikhail Menshikov performed the
gargantuan feat of outtalking David Susskind on Channel
5, 9 to 11, Sunday night. The tatter's interview with him
lik
"
wri:~
e a playing of
The
Broken Record," an old song
in which the words' were re-
heated over and over again.
The Russian envoy parroted
endlessly the oft-spoken thoughts
of his master, Khrushchev, in-
cluding the brandishing of the
100-megaton bomb.
Ile said that a new series cf
Russian explosions in the atmos-
phere is at hand, if the U.S. does
not put an end to its own nuclear
to?s immediately. Furthermore,
he told Suaskind, "it's quite pos-
sihle'? that the super-boinbs would
David
Susakind
Monique
Van Vooren
3-
".'use. Menshiko, overwhelmed him
with a Niagara of verbiage, a.
torrent of portentous double-talk.
I think David had better give ;
up on the Russians.
Trick or Treason':
In the -heavy script of the
espionage thriller, "Trick or.
Treason" on the Show of the
Week, Channel 4, 10 to 11, a voice
:,tells viewers that the late Gen.
William Donovan, director of the
;Office of Strategic Services, was
happy to have the story of the
OSS' great deception finally told.,
? This melodrama presumed to
tell it. It was a tale of how
American secret agents. and their
foreign :'colleagues fooled the
Nazis by making them believe
that the D-Day.invasion of Eu-
rope would be through Holland
rather than France. As a result,
thousands of Allied soldiers' lives
were saved.
There is some reason to doubt
that this play by Leo Tokatyan
is an absolutely faithful account
of that maneuver. Some of the
incidents seemed to he the red hot
products of the fiction writer's
typewriter and several of the'
agents who were not in on the'
bit secret appeared to be un-
believably careless in the. dis-
charge of their duties.
be exploded during these expert China, there is "no serious" ideo-
mcnt x. -
Details Destruction i Smiting, at times affable, and
Sfeti..hikov :rl.i.d ?h. speaking in English, Menshikov
out shelters--the Kennedy admin-
istration proposed a $700 rpillion
system last week-would "not
protect the lives of th.e people as
everything within bundr?.'ds
of rni:i;s front the epicenter of
the e .(l+ion would be destroyed."
'XI cn Susskind mentioned that
tie Soi{set was $41 million in er-
rcars it its dues to the United
\ alio;tt the ambassador excused
this ort the ground that- Russia
doe; r;rrtil,tike the UN's action on
. u. I,..._i.
No Soul, #?Cbinese Rift
Alst,, T 4s confirmed what many
e ?- ti.te a,c' rers have. long be.
lievcd at despite the disputes
is gin l tween Russia and- lied
rned with East Germany
. . .
but it would be possible for those
not signing to.conclude some ar-
ra'n entent with the "sovereign"
East Germans,
They 'Like' Communism
And--oil, yes-the Fast Ger-
mans favor their Communist
government, And what about
Soviet. colonialism in Hungary,
Poland and other countries? Wby,
the people like it, et& etc.
Just as when he interviewed
Khruslrchev, Susskind was unable
to budge the ambassador. So he
tried to argue. It remindell one of
the recent session between Presi-
dent Kennedy and K's son-in law,
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Held One's. Interest
But judged purely as a thriller,
"Trick or Treason" held one's in
terest. It was fast-moving under
Leonard Horn's direction and
abounded in suspense.
Monique Van Vooren, the night
club star, playing it Nazi spy,
proved that she is far more than
a mere biisty blonde. She has
talent as an actress. Other vivid
performances w e r e those of
Martin Gabel as Col. Di Lucca,
Peter Thompson as Capt. De-
laney, Tom Helmore as. Major
Osbo I'm and Russell Collins as
I the 1) tcf+ patriot, Dr. Struyckeat.