RED AIDE IN LONDON CALLED TOP AGENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400110003-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 8, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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NEW YORK, Oct. 6 (AP)-
The Russian official involved
in the recent hassle over a
young Soviet scientist in Lon-
don was identified today as
the top secret police agent
who handled the release of
American U-2 pilot Francis
i Gary Powers.
"I pottlively identify tho
roan as Ivan Alexandrovitch 10
Schischkin with whom I nego-
tiated the exchange. of Powers.
and Col. Abel," New York at-
torney James B. Donovan said.
Donovan revealed that U.S.
intelligence officials believe
:Schischl:in to ',u the head of
operations in We tern Europe
for KGB, the Soviet secret
police.
'.They are obviously using
him on their top cases," Don-
ovan said. Schisch'.cin's name
cropped up in London Sept. 16
w h e n British police pulled
Dr. Vladimir Tkachenko off a
Moscow-bound Soviet airliner,
charging the physicist had
been drugged and kidnapped.
A Soviet official, identified
as Consul Ivan A.. Shishkin,
was said to have arranged
Tkachenko's departure after
British authorities released'
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