DEFECTOR SAYS HE'S CZAR'S SON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200570004-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 10, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

MIAMI HERALD
Approved For Releasd4?9WOP : CIA-RD
CPYRGHT
d0tor
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"says
de's
Counter-Spy
A Romanoff?
in.nts?rcferred to GoleniewskiI
t .. Ale cei Nicl ola,avich Roma-
:,ff.
leniewski claimed the ar-
r priest hall'boi'n influenced by!
Ii , same "forces" that prevent
i my father t+ inheritance ni
Lit West, a fiproximately 4001
illion dollars which has 11.0-en,
d posiieo for more than 50
y ars" in various European
NEW YORK - (UPI) - Cal inks.
Michael Goleniewski, a defector The defector claims that both
from the Polish secret service,t a czar and czarina escaped
who was revealed as a counter n sassinatlon at Ekaterinberg,
CPYRGHT spy by the U.S. government; originally' believed until a
made his first official bid Satur? " 111 t e Russian commission
~rp~ys '. a Bolsheviks. He, sold one of
l.A~Jat S o ii a motivations for "isolating"
i n m and his sisters was interest,
? i
day for recognition as the son of and 'a few chaired bones;
the late Czar Nichoja$ II of t. cr.?r1, and lived in Poland under
'
Russia. sumed mimes until 1924 and
Goleniewski, who was rr.adea 52 respectively. He said the.
U.S. citizen by act ; of Con; milt's Identity was suppressed
y "piovocation, insinuation
press, stated in a th'r4-column ?
advertisement in The New York, nd manipulation.
Journal-American that he 14 the
Czarevich' Alexei' Nicholpevich,
and that nU four of his sisters
also are alive. The claim haci
been made previously on ,behalf
of the alleged Romanoffs by a
New York publisher. Rohert
Speller, who will publish a book
entitled "The Reappearance of.
the Romanoffs:
The former Polish colonel;
took the ad in answer to a'
statement made by Count Geor-
gia Grabbe, protopresbyter of
the synod of Russian Orthodoxi
bishops outside Russia, in the
The archprleet-count mar- ive. Since then women claiming
tied Goleniewski to a.woman ,,, - rhn (rand Tluehenae
nolc last year, were not defini-
Clue Backstee, an idnntl-\
fication axpert who line been
an adviser, to the FBI, said
recently that fingerprints and
ilental carnpdrinons Indicated
that,Goleniewskl is the czare-
vich.
The fingerprints were al
egedly obtained from docu-
ents found in -England which
ad been handled by the czar's
on. Goleniewski nlso has medi-
al documents proving he Sc a
emophiliac, as was the czarev-
ch.
Lie 'detector tests given
oleniewski's alleged sister, the
recognized . Goleniewskc as
er the a recognized rand - Duchess Anastasia, at
he time Speller published her
'.newspaper Novoye Russkoye,
Slovo Dec. 8 saying he had nev-'
+ eK lbussian exLracuun Ui nio- lga, xatianai and Maria hav
P;,,,elan Orthodox rites last Sop- ?,.tea n+ ?rhn; hIAAinn':..
'.the', reliaious,''marr.Age, ,docu~,,
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