CORNELL TEACHER SPIED FOR SOVIET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100400012-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 2, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: December 6, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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CORNELL TEACHER
SPIED FOR SOVIET
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Visiting Russian Artists
Tells U.S. Sho Kept Eye on
reported to the Justice Depai -
nent that she furnished inf
Thev bagan in Moscow Marl
1962, and ended, accords
o her sworn statements,
o action was contenplat
gainst Miss Bienst.ock beca
he had voluntarily told. t
Vi this year setting forth 1
onnection with the Soviet is
I-Turok Attractions, Inc.
company was then arrart*i
for the visits of Russian arti t
to the United Staten under i
1959 and again in February a
Marcia, 1962, Iviille employed y
But she dirt note that
visited Moscow at the end
on March 9, 1962, at a meeting
with Viktor Petrovich Sorine,!
She described him as "a rep-1
resentative of the Committeq
for State Security of the'
U.S.S.R."
Site said Sorine had!
showed her how to produce in-i
visible writing, which could
later he mactc visible, by using,
a silver nitrate solution.
Miss Bienstock said she hadl
been instructed to report to a
Leo Sorokine by this secret:
writing method at: q9 Park;
Avenue,Neak York ity. She,
said that she. had sent liim about!
seven secret letters but had{
never talked to Jiim or~nethim.,
Dining this periods Miss Bien-
stock was traveling 'with orl
concerned with several touring:
Russian groups,' Including the!
Kirov Ballet.,
Miss Biciktoci said that, shel
had secretly given Mr. Sorokine
the names of at least two FBI'
agents. an employe of the Cen-,
tral Intelligence Agency and'
several others connected with
tha State Department. . Y
Miss Bienstock said she had.
been born in Prague, Czecho
slavakia, and was, naturalized;
as a United States citizen In,
November, 19i5, at l3ouldel
Coio. She said she had received.,
no . compensatio n from the
Russians.
Cornell Orders .Uiquiry s
A spokesnvan for Cornell Uni-?
t*ersi.v said ye terday. that Cor-!
ucll's i}re.idcnt., Janes A. Per-1
kins, had ordered an investiga
tion into Miss Eienstock's activ-i
itics on the recommendation of.
the faculty committee on aca-
demic freedom and tenure.
Miss Bicnstock is,a graduate
student in Russian literature,
and has also been teaching eles
mentary Russian language at:
Cornell. She has asked to bey
assigned to nonteaching duties:
outs! the investigation has been
+completed, and the request has;
been granted, the spokesma[i
said.
the Hotel Ukraine, in Moe s
statement that she re eivedl 1
her instructions and training ai
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