IMPERIAL AGENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300130007-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: May 2, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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(Devin-Adair, $5.995). When New
York newspaper editor Guy Rich-
ards acted on a tip that alleged
the suppression of a major U.S. spy
scandal by elements of our govern-
ment, he met more opposition than
the standard bureaucratic run-
around. Persistent, he went on to
uncover the fascinating tale of a
possibly quadruple agent, Colonel
IMPERIAL AGENT: Tlir GOLFhIEWSKI-V
RoMnxov CASE, by Guy Richards v,
one and the same. The question re-
er CIA indentification expert, be-.:
fled sources) Goleniewski, a form-
'fingerprints and dental charts of
Romanov (obtained from unspeci-
basis of comparisons of sole prints,
porting the claim, however, on the
statements by ?Goleniewski. Sup-
proven assumptions about and
Goleniewski) that the colonel is
really the Grand Duke Alexei
Romanov, son and heir of. Czar.....;,'
Nicholas II. While never stating it
flatly, Richards obviously believes
the claim, letting stand many un
is the possibility (and claim by
scious, excessively informal style,"-:
Michal Goleniewski. Unfortunately
for Imperial Agent, Richards barely
mentions Goleniewski's work as a
spy. The main aspect of the case
mains, if Goleniewski is not Ro-
manov, just who is this man whose
record of service to the West war ,
rantedd' a special CIA-sponsored
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