SOVIET SPY SWITCH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100120014-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: March 31, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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NEW ORLF,ANS, LA.
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MAY 3 1 1967
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The United States Central Intel-
ligence Agency is not the only es-
pionage agency t h a t has trouble
With its image and its superiors. The
CIA has had three directors since
the gay o Pigs episode of 1961, and
has been the subject of critical re-
view by the executive branch, in-
creased scrutiny by Congress, and
considerable debate by a public al-
ternately fascinated and repelled by
a supersecret spy outfit.
In Moscow, the renowned KGB-
Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopas-
nosti or State Security Committee
to be precise---has just gotten a new
director, and the assumption is that
too many (visible) goofs were the
signal for his predecessor's removal.
Miss Stalin got away in a dazzle
of publicity, but also within the last
two months n in e Soviet citizens
.have been accused of espionage and
expelled from Italy, Belgium, The
Netherlands, Cyprus, a. n d Greece.
Two KGB men visiting the United
States lost their cover and were in-
stead covered with withering humor
by the press throughout their stay.
The new director, Yuri V. Andro-
pov, is a close associate of party
chairman Brezhanev, a n d his ' ap-
pointment is seen as a continuation
of a policy of close party control
over an agency that once became a
disturbingly independent political
force. Andropov's successor, Vlad-
mir Semichastny, was an associate
of Aleksandr Shelepin, of the "con-
servative" or hardline faction, The
change is thus interpreted as a
strengthening of the dominant mid
dle-of-the-road Brezhnev factioi
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