PROBE REPORTED IN EX-CIA MAN'S ACTS

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CIA-RDP75-00001R000400460005-9
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February 17, 1957
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SANTA BARBARA (Calif.) FEB 17 NEWS-PRESS 1957 Circ.: e. Sg i) pd - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00001 R00 S. 22,891 Front / Edit Other Page J Page Page C"~-t it h ro p er Says C m rnitfnn < y ee'; c o c;Fy eK ilj~yo Dealings With Reds it 1Sl11VGi TON, 'eb 1 Ill 'he Washington altar, said today the Ilouse Committee on Un-Arne ican Activities islookink into the case J U.S.S.R. on' July 3. He had beer stationed here since Dec. 28, 1953. REPORTED GOAL "It is understood that Popov of a forrrier'"?Ceniralr Irife r ence ,tried to persuade Wallen, a captair> of enc (;>er " m ?the Army Air, 1rorces during ~e lo~ye > h0cr -8 World War, II, to getaa job in th&I mitted suicid4 16 2 the efense Department and then turn hush-hush intelligence agency. vet information to the Russians it said tie n l ick_Qar_k '~i-al-: "In return for cash payments." 1e11, " Reported dell a number of The Star said that while Wal, c ndest } rnee ir gs wife n as- len's sister, a resident of New Jcri scstant Soviet, r i a attache M ;, ere early lasf year. ~ gey, 'refused to believe that he took, his own life, the Arlington coroner' .. ' e, The S sae', 1 t" w T enh- reached a verdict of suicide and{ tied as it C`o opov, no Autopsy was ordered. whose v~ a the a e apartment Police said the complicated revoked shortly- t alen's method by which the intelligence': deal t here, i t tl ,? ~ specialist '"teas killed and a note A co Y~7ittee,rnlgrmant, -avi that he left convinced them it was of the Star st y said the iTouse suicide. r, -Aving av911able in- Wallen died of gas mation on at -dplor Dina a with which heahose d inside for had baep attach {mum y as a or p g and that the Popov case would fall the Star said. Shor a f t e r her husband's in that category. He said ther a$ been evalu- death, allen's wife went to Eng ation of thes ,so far, cludil3g nd to live with her parents. noR dcje=-4 jj2u.., as _to whether. The note left by Wallen declared Wallen did have `contact wiffi his love for his wife, complained Popov or whethesugh contact 'as that he had found no success in improper. life, that events had conspiredi 'A $TATLn~t against him and that he, therefore, Coin rttee chairr~, q Walter (D -was taking the easy way out, the ,Pa) as not available for coin-Star added. ment. The Stem's account, under, the byline of L', ldar' t'rina, sail! the committee "May iSsue'a state- ment on its investigation this, "A CIA spokesman said Wallen,, who was 35 years old at, the time of his death, was a research spl cialist, He started work at the, STATINTL agency,an. IT, 1955, and 'resignecll for personal reasons' on Dec. 12. the same year, the spokesznanj said. ','Other sources said that Wal! len's separation from the CIA was forced and was in'`,effect a dish missal. "From. some time iti January;. I1956, until shortly before his death,, Wallen is said to havq held meet- ings with T, dql, Anatoli A. Popov; of the Soviet embassy. Whether, this reported association_ began 1 while he was stiff .on the 'M pay- I roll is not known., Popov visa `r - eln^pproved For Release : C A-RDP75-00001 R000400460005-9 after the Wallen suicide, The 50 viet embassy notified the depart 1- 0-