UKRAINE TYPIFIES PROPAGANDA WAR

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400180050-0
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 50
• Publication Date: May 31, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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an employe of the Central In-
telligence Agency. Another
Estonian is named in gossip
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By PETER G .OSE
Soedal to The Nev York Times
cow arul \' e:5ter i capitals.
A "-year-oll Ukrainian writ..
er, Ivan Svctlichny, was
rested in I,:icv this spring and,'
according to sources here, con-'
to assisting West
Ukrainian, nationalist groups
and arranzin:g for the publica-'
Lion of anti-Soviet literature ink
uropean dmigrd journals. One,
of his literary colleagues said het
had been released with a warn-
ing against continuing his anti-,
Soviet activities.
A ;:;:,.a romi ent writer. Ivan Dzyuba, was interrogated,
y MM
same time, according to this
source, but was not arrested.
The most specific disclosures;
ciciibcratel sas an agent
Y spread of ~ alleged Western intelligence'
of the Soviet Stato Security', activities among dmigre groups
agency. carne in an extraordinary news
A Ukrainian defector front conference last month. A man
:the West is displayed here at named Stepan I. Dzbugalo was!
a news conference to reoilo introduced as a Ukrainian who)
details of Western intelligence fought against the Soviet Union
;operations among emigre so- during World War II and con-i
cieties, tinued to serve with an anti-
From the Baltic states to the Soviet nationalist organization
Soviet republics in the Cau- rn West Germany until lie be-
regional Communist
came disillusioned with its tics,
leaders speak out-about "hour-.to ,
, geois infiltration" into the So- Western intelligence agen-
viet Union through the devices, cres,
of minority-group nationalism.1 Soviet Sources s' e1lceut
The minority nationalities of! It is openly discusscii In the!
the Soviet Union are a central; West ,now emigro groups work'
battlefield in the inteiligence;to maintain contact with their
war between East and West; countrynien under Soviet rule.
manipulation of nationality; Last April the C.I.A. publicly
groups appears to be a major identified an Estonian, Juri
weapon of both Communist; Raus, as an employe during
and Western intelligence or- a slander action brought against
ganizations. 1Ir. Raus by Eerkk Heine, an
As a matter of po;itirs, the Estonian emigrd living in Can-
fervor of eniigrd nationalists. ada. -Mr. Heine charged that
which was strong during and, Mr. Raus had depicted him as
shortly after World War II, a Soviet anent to Estonian emi-
seems to have died. But for'g'e groups.
intelligence purposes, for the That Soviet authorities shun
planting of agents in the So-;such disclosures though the
viet Union and of Soviet agents' maintaining of "cultural" ties
in the West, the minority ra-;wills "progressive" emigres
tionalities apparently retain: abroad is acknowledged.
Its executive secretary, Mik-
hail A. Levishcihenko, spoke at
length about the wish for non-
political cultural relations
..
at three million by a Ukrainian; among all Ukrainians. On the
writer, Yurik Smolich. Some Specific activities of his society
arc adherents of what he called 'he was vague.
"progressive" Emigre organiza- He said he did not know the
Lions, friendly to the Soviet' circulation of the organization's
Union, others join in activities newsletter and declined to say'
of anti - Soviet nationalist,' ow pig the staff of the society
groups, he said. was.
'A series of incidents in t'hc; We know nothing about any'
Uicraine has provided glimpses inteinge.: ca o?ieration>, among
of the widercover contest be -! Ukrainia said. "There'
twoen rival emigre societies; are other organizations that oc-
backed by their presunmed nien-; copy themselves with such
'tors, the propagandists and in-; matters."
telligence organizations in lios
home republics. The other is the
presence of dmigres abroad.
The number of Ukrainians
their usefulness, contacts with Ukrainians
National Identity Strong overseas are made from a
ground-floor office in a yellow-,
Two conditions make possible! bride apartment building near
fruitful exploitation by both' the bluffs of the Dnieper River
sides. One is the strong nationals in Kiev. This is the office of the
identity that non-Russian mni-, Society for Cultural Relations
nority groups preserve in their with Ukrainians abroad.
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