EXPELLED U.S. DIPLOMAT CALLED CIA SPY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400470049-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 1999
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: August 29, 1960
• Content Type: OPEN

;AST AuEaM1t, 29, 1960
Riled Approved For Release : CIA-RDP
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U S S R I.N T E R N A T I?Q'N A Z AFFAIRS
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EXFF LED U.&.?,DIPLOMAT CALLED CIA SPX.
Moscow,.Soviet fours Service. Aug. 27, 1960, 16Oo GMT'
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(Text). New York Ufl -reports from Denver that the anther of George Winters,,
expelled attache of the ?t S.Embassy in Moeciow, 's*Ad her son was an intelliCence
man.
"Winters arrived in the Soviet Union for the aecond time He had worked in
the U.S? Embassy wnttl 19147. His mother, Mrs. Winters, reported that tho interval
between his services at the embassy he. worked for thi.Central Intelligence Agency,"
Winters' Mother -'Tells of CIA Job
U.S. Spy Portrait Gall4ry Swills'
Moscow, Soviet Europain Service in English, Aug. 28, 1960, 1,31,5 GMT--L , e {
(Aleksandr Druzhinin. commentary)
(Text) For two years Winters' represent d. the United.St{teh in, the USSR as an
attache of the U.S.F.=baesy. For two years he wore th black co}t, striped trousers,
and starched collar ' and cuffs of the diplcsat, which}itigr 'hiia were a camouflage
rather like the skin of 'soave poisonous snake.,, Nov .,this ,;U.S, diplo,m t has been
expelled as a spy.
The investigation established his' complicit r in ?thelass of a U,S, agent arrested
last year in the,U3m who' had received from the U.S. Bur ssy in Moscow intelli-
gency assignments, equipment-.Mw secret writing,. hd-money. In view of the incom
patibility of?Winter's activit es'with the a atusk.af`a diplomat. he,.-as been asked
to leave Moscow.
Winters is far from being the only one, one could open a whole gallery of por
traits of U.S. spies who have been caught. iSsd-handed in the USSR, and a prominent
place in it would go to another U.$, diplomat, the naval attache in Moscow, Kirton.
With his'aeeistantZ, Macdonald, he. liked to+,ravel about the USE, but on his
journeys it was not.tonly?) picturesque Ipotdl that. he stopped to soe. He photo-
graphed military objectives, airports,. industrial enterprires,?Gad railway
btatinns. kirton was exposed and on -Aug.10 he was asked to make?his last trip
on So'-iet soil--to the Soviet border., The' U.S. diplomat and spy was thus ,expelled
from the USSR. Another traveler, $obert. Haro3,d Christner, did not have a
diplomatic passport. lie was merely i tourist, But. the -curiosity of this tourist
was restricted to the same spheres. Chr4.atner also traveled up and down the
USSR photographing and sketching various' military and industrial oojectivea. In
additior, he was engaged in spreading anti-Soviet literature. The tourist'
Chrietner was also asked to leave the Soviet Union;
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