NEWS OF THE WORLD, AT 7:30 P.M. OVER WRC (WASHINGTON) AND THE NBC NETWORK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300370026-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 30, 1998
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: October 6, 1960
• Content Type: TRANS

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"And the' news - tonight,' exclusive with News of the World, to `the' most fei~tasttc
spy story oi, record? all about the model American .town, operated x4 r, ttxe.Russia Sq let
espionage system. The story begins with two American tourietb Who ware caught:;pre urea'
taking. photographs near the western Soviet border. The 'part erit reports four -lnquir
at:,o-it the two men by our Embassy, one of them by Ambassador Lle' elyn Thompson himself '.'
all ur:answerec, One of the men is Harvey C. Bennett, of Bath; Maine, age 26, post-
graduate language student who has been trying to make up.his' aiind whether to become a'
teacher or a f oretgn service officer. He speaks .Russian. The -other man.is Mark Yami n
;;.e'ue ale; Cass County, Michigan, rlho was to have' started teaching, presumably the R'ise'
lent..:ac,ey recaure he knows it. well,, at kurdue University this fall.
'On h1' application to visit Russia, Bennett reported he was going for educaticn,
Karim~_,, that he wanted to study and visit relatives. Now the exclusive part of.thP
st'^rv, and a. pcssible answer to how these young chaps might have run afoul of suspicic'
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ay'be trapped between the devil and the deep blue sea:....
aeoveirFd` Russians deiepeat spy secret. Last Sreex tgrd ` *tzay he secret
41 t hin., a city-~i. tis ; a model American town to train ca + ri oan er spi onxge or
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"'?'or years, intelligence agents have been hearirfg about' a town withln'a city in
f' viet. Russia, in the Ukraine, and I have touched on it'before now. The barbed wiry
and high fence hides a complete model American town., and it is in the city of Venitz.a,
or it was until late l9:9. .The last word from our two American tourists before. they
got. int..o tr.,uble came from--yes--Venitza. Bennett wrote Mrs. Bennett that they had hay
rar treun1', but would soon. cross 'the border westward. The next word cars from other
Amer:-an tourists early in September--Kaminsky was at a border station. He told an
Am4ri,-an aoqu,intance that he was in trouble. Since then--nothing.
"The Russian. anxiety to accuse Americans of spying may have caught.the. m in a strar
se They may well have capture, two innocent Americans, who unwittingly would expose
the Russian plans for a long-distance future take-over of the United States. Let me
explain. In 195y, a Swedish' Arrr- officer, Major Peer n' dgren, set himself to,'the t,a k
rif s:~p rrr tint; fact from fiction.. about the rttiadel- American town in Russia. In ~an artice
t r: the Swedish rcili tary journal named`'Cont,ect with the Army, ' the Major made an expot-..
t.h, t startl,. ! *11 lnteiligence agreneies, because it indicated the Russians have deeps
long rani-e 11arrs for taki.pg over major countries of the world, and one of these plans
*nt red in enlt,za,, The Major pieced together various intelligence reports, and came
tr , with t ii! G st.at.emsnt:. everything within the town of Veni tza is pure Arr :rican'--the'
h'r servos American; drinks, the restaurant American fool, the, movies are Hollywood naae.
in i the sires sell everything from reader-made clothes 'to chewing gum. Fords and Chev-
r'letr, dr_ve tnrcuf,h the streets, blue jazz notes blare frtum the cocktail icunge, and
rnirrk,iP with the- juke box bebop in the drug store. 'And' all the dialects of the Unites
:it.a -9 are taught and spoken to the young Russians who inh bit this town withi a t~ t, .
''r`,'y riier a hamburger and a Coke just like peol le do in 'waterloos Tcwa, or
Mr e ;;or , , I'er.~.rvly ars a o Major .Lindgren retorted that the town tray one tt.o.,zsarid
al L in training; to know everything American intimately, so they may 6,-
fur p~c s or 'or the cadrer:, who ultirsately might try to take over our corn+.ry.
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