PSYCHIATRIST CALLED RED SPY, LIKE BROTHER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200570010-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: November 30, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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The a rls ro ter o ?con essed Soviet' slyer J
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,it amavicalny grabbed by the FBBI at-Rockland State Hospital in Orano?ndii,r '
uccy on charges that for almost two decades-behind a mask of courtly
.....yam......, -V -Z1 1:cit41C a.nu ueau,l
dit ci?ently from his imprisoned brother
Pere and snug in Moscow
were
was identified
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Robert Soblen, 60. the' product of three top universi+i named as co-conspirators but not'.^,if? M
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nd t
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In Germa.n,y and Switzerland, who learned his profession at Could Mean Death Jacob Albam, ?he pleadedy guilty,
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him, hold a similar post. lenses occurred durh- wartinie..naturalized citizen who once
1)r. Lawrence Roberts. as,nr?.iate ~? At e
H
obson
liked him, and the p demanded Mexico, and Spitz's wife, Bea-`
sych] ]t,ist X150,000 bail, rulicating that trice.
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"Vas "voi-v nrn?n, ~l ,r A, 3n,
serious penetra- In Vienna, the couple ha
rviih other doctors." Z'he tion of t)SS secuu+', ,
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--- y-~ cmplvyes, sources , U. a, investigation.
as :e was leaving for lunch, of information and the nature of
documents that passed over OSS,1 Others On the List
"diver Since 1940"
desks. Others listed were Horst Baer-
Ilorvever, according to FRY ' Th
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Says U.S.
opened yesterday in F e d e r a l
Robson
also told Herlands that
,b'd struck a SPY deal with th
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illasters back at the tillie
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of Russia
s march into
Lithuani
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of the
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of St::rt,egic Services and
other spy ,and counter-spy
Biggest, in Years
Dr. Soblen assertedly belonged
o a Red Spy ring, personally set. Dr. Robert Soblen arrives at
11) by the late. Soviet secret police U.S., Court (louse after arrest.
ass l avrentr P. Beria, which he-
n stcabn- 1 S. secrets a week the psychiatrist had dealt with
Liter Pearl Harbor. The appa- his brother, with Beria, Vassili
ctus wO ('cscr;bed as the bin- Zubilin, onetime higl}. Soviet
'e t exposegl j,; this country since diplomatic aid in - Washington
om sniec Julius and Ethel Ro- ?andx'eputed secret police genital
onberg were arrested-and later and other high-level Russians,
,
loetrocutcd-almost '-11 years both here ancI=in Washington. In
go,
The indictment maintained that (Continued on page 6, col. 1)
daughter of an East German gov-
ernlnent official, who is an cln-
ploy- ofmtheanNew York law firm
of Sher, Sterling & Wright,,
wnl Gen. Zublin's wife, Elizabeth,'
who seemed to have belonged to
a sort of lalies' auxiliary'of the
Soviet secret police.
un Four other co-conspirators,' de-
'country, he
lro
ed
the
, agreed scribbed as American citizens still
to come to the U.S. as spies. in ',his country, were named as
However, counsel for the .psy-Esther Rand, Sylvia Callen, Lucy
clriat,.i,t protested "that his clientlBooker and Floyd Miller. Gov-
is seriously it},that he has always 'el-about sources described them
'been available for questioning by:as couriers for the ring.
grand juries - and that, while' . Born Ruvelis Leiba Spbolevicius
under surveillance for several In Lithuania, the psychiatrist
years, he has several times po-1knoclced around European univer-
litely stopped his car so that his;sities and hospitals in the 30s,
shadows could catch up with hiin and was in Moscow in early 1941.
,when they lost him. From there, he assertedly went
Dr. Soblen pleaded not guilty, to Vladivistolc and Shanghai,
and Herlands fixed bail at $75,000?"from where he enlared the U. S.,
? He set Dec. 20 as the d; to for at San Francisco, the salve year.
the case on the trial cal- According to- the charges
:placing
enda.
he
,
Denounced byiiforro., met Gen. Zubilin here in 1942,
The Russian s and during the rear years, when
no The ssianapy ring was dc- he asertedly met several of the
ago master U. S. counter-spyBois atljob `t ith11UNr`as lra. translator';-
Morros, Hollywood movie dircc- and consultant to its Relief and
tor, and Jack Soble was arrested Rehabilitation Administration. d
here in January. 1957.... With his
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