PROBE REPORTED IN EX-CIA MAN'S ACTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400460005-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 16, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 17, 1957
• Content Type: NSPR

SANTA BARBARA (Calif.) FEB 17
NEWS-PRESS
1957
Circ.: e. Sg i) pd - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00001 R00
S. 22,891
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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
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