HYATTSVILLE MAN TELLS OF RED BRIBE ATTEMPT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300100004-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: May 28, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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4tr 'Gleason'says he rei
ported the" Offer" to CIA
Later, %. n advice from, th
Justice Depa.rtm nt, h
registea'eti, asc _a foreig
agent.
dlr. Gleason, 42r' sjt f n
veteran, drives a limousine-of
Washington National -Airpo .
In his registration with ih
dustiet Department he nam
as his Soviet contacts Gc -
nady .V. Gavrikciv, Third
reiary at the Embassy, a
%"C:iorghl", identified only
;another Embassy employe {
Mr. Gleason registered as
an agent of Gavitkuvand
+"Giorghi" , st March 3O
rI He ?s~id In his ' reggistrati6tt
. he filed "only beceu I have
been told by the, JustlCe.Dc-
(Nathan :Lenin, chief of
the Foreign, -gentsl Re istra-
?tion seetioni t(I he ' oesn't
tell Ahem the;l hav . to, u T V, 11 tell them ' theyr , _ okrte nder
the law." Hb :said ?Mr.'Glea-
son did not volunteer. "We
!had intor'atlon about his ac-
tivities and I. personally so-
licited his registration by let-
1 Mr.. Gleason refused to dis-
cuss details, saying only that
.,it will be quite a story when
it can be told." He said he
was writinFg'a . book and ex.
tti htedlout ' etha little some-
Iie said he does not con-
sider himself a Russian agent
despite his registration,
'That was just strategy.'
In his registration, Mr.
Gleason said he first met
(avrikov on Nbv. 17, 1959,
when he went to the Soviet
EmNt - "t2 inquire a opt
em(r-r~rment/ytlS~l~lt I
1
_$
tudies ? fof`" Embassy." >
I(1ir. ,Gleason said he re-
fus~.:di, hut 14tf the door open
~tet operatic4L'
Instead,
1pofted In ti
"Gioa'gh4" &;; him a bottle;;'
of Scotch as a Chrlstina$
present anti on Jan. 18.Gavri-
k ov ''loarnlt ' or gave stye'
$200. t
Nfearri t'lb, "Giorghi" asked l
hits .te+ "taut ernployinetit
with 1 1A.'' 1`1
"I had alret iv -told Gavrl-
"Ghvrikov a
lity as to be of
wori;ing ror
to CA and
'hoi story
- was
Th' IUhzIans
ri1' trips