FROM POWERS TO PENKOVSKY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200600002-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 22, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

?his rolls o! llim and information to .'
a Past one" oa their junior partners, '
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Flo-American spy Oleg Penkovsk ~~
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and his British go-between Grev1II9~: a+c+~hu~h,.a .._....._ _.~. ,
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ti~ ~ + '` U.S. ltitelligenco otAccr's
~, . impc2Jalist espionage and subversion `when Eisenhower sand Macm[II n ? ~~ , ,deplored
''V; i agencies arc still , on trial-summon .:"met in tt,,. u,,,....,..a.._ ,_ ,..__ .. having to share him, with the Brit-
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world public opinion: ~'
ued him more than tho Intelliscnce .'
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given us a closer ?viow a! irhe lm ves. In addition ad already been ~.toid about ? hint' ,;'
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a rog U.S., Brltls hey said, and was prepared to meet "'
rlalisis` bacicstago operations?,against'~;`, and Canadian mtllt
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ry intelllgen ~' im should ? he elver come to the ;;
. tho-U'S.S.R. and th? other soclalist:?'~.~atflcers, was started in Lon.dnn. a., "' ._,. _. - ..
. lotions between the ,intelligence ser `~r`-"?~` ' "` ? was wester ' tj~t ~1ey asked 'him to keep this
'-press that? -the'. Americans'- wer
.~ vices at .tho Nato countries'- ~ ecting secret from the British. .
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sh intelligent As penlsovsky had ,no objections+"
;activities.
It is not tho first time Western ,tn- .`~; w~,,. ,,,,,,_ ,.,_ _ . ashin.gton's .cloak-and-dagger men
teiiigenco agencies have tried to co? - `-~- ~~~` r`t'" `aaas.zne rune roceeded to elbow out iheir?Sritish~
':: ordinate anti-Soviet activity. In 1DID ~, today the CIA bosses its, Brltls posito numbers. They put forward
' n....-- . _ -.. _ counterpart end ruAol.. ?Mnn..r,w,-L-- _ - _ ?
lomat, plotted 'with his American "~" ia'uati ox its effort. ct the. British maintained with'
colleague De Witt ?1?00l a ainst ~~,..~, !: Penkovsicy served two . masters, ~~, ovsk .via W
g Y Ynne and Mrs. Ja-
-the.-Americans and -the I3ritlsh. BuE n t Ann Chtsholm was "unrollable'~ ?~
young,Sovlet Republic, On the evo :`:.`ts,n Me.,hFl..... ~_.___ ..
--?-,. -+uv.,,.YLC[1 ms nrst.reports to tho I?~`. ~he British being ur-aUlo to take
'Japanese, IIungarlan; Rumanian and;'.`;,}3ritish, than their senior partners a t`en~inn +n +a.,- az_ .__ _.
.''Finnish (!Cnl/lnnnn .,....,,..,__ ,_. .
unites anti-SQViet "secret front "? ~" ~~" `~""" ?" b~a? ror ;, ge ted!.their otvn Moscow cache, in'-.?
this new source o! information Th ?th h
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me atcly alter the war the?'' o ~ allway of 5/0 Pushkin Street, a
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cans took up where the nazis ', gong ?
a son arrangement~sarviced solely '.
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end failed. Foliotving CIA rte otia- ;' ~,~ ;, ngon. by American agents: ~A)exis Davison,
g cloak-and-da , or; men were' obll ed A istant U.S. ?Alr Attache; Wliliam
dons with. tho allies of the United to agree I tf ' '
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us manner was an An- Jo es, Second Secretary of the U
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Slates in May 1D99 a compact was ~ glo-Am i
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? ec can consorElum formed ?to ?, E bossy; Hugh Montgomery, Atta% '~'
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ve espionage ch ,and Richard C. Jacob, >;rnbassy
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ltgcnco confres' of tha Nato coup: `'':~hn... ' .... ' ;, :~ . ?, , .
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