DOWN THE CHISM TRAIL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300130010-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 26, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved RwVA%as'2000/O8/27 :,I -&RP7
JOURINA
To most folks down in the south
CPYRGHT n sector of Mitchell County Guy
ichards is. a guy known only as
1 fary Frances Lavine's husband-.
ut to the literary world he is label-
' as a genius, and when his latest
eation IMPERIAL AGENT be-
omes. more widely circulated his
-ne will be even more far flung.
I have just completed reading
uy's new book and my reactions
re the-same as many of the critics
i the metropolitan newspapers
ho have tagged it as (a master-
lace of literary art. it is cor-
inly apiece of literature worn.
ny man's time reading, and ii
am any judge at all it sl-:outd
reak some kind of sales recordi
f he contents of the book is far
?o:n being the shallow, cheap
pisodes that so many comtenu-
ovary writers have on the sh41-
es and book stores and librariefi
In the contrary it contains
old historical facts, so well
gether that it grabs the in(r~i -
st at the first paragraph ant,
.olds that attention with a hall
og grip until that very last lir.0.
IMPERIAL AGENT, The C of
niewski-Romanov Case- Wi a
? the book all about. To best
le gist of the plot of the book.
quote from the printed miss agt
n the cover flap.
"On an April morning in
harmless looking envelope we
anded in at the American Ell.
assy in Warsaw. In that enve
pc was a message destined th
ause apprehension at, the to;
chelons of Free World security
nd to set in motion one of th,:
cst bizarre dramas in the 'ais
cry of espionage.
"For 33 months the writer c
at message poured inforrriatio
i rom behind the Iron Curtain in
o the West until finally, with th,
Approved o R'el1e 000108 L, was ?he United States by pur CIA
dent' in himself as a Poiis:l
olenievvs u. The public, however,
as 'to know nothing of the 'ex-
} laity of this resourceful man un-
11 Guy Richards, New York news-
apor than, got a tip that ,,*V, 7-
Lgton was covering up the, Dig-
est defector story of the century.
"IMPERIAL AGENT relates
he incredible sage of Colonel
:aleniewski who, when reporter
lay Richards tracked him down
o a hideaway the CIA Tad chosen
hook up that seau~-i.i-? newspap-
marl by claiming to be none
ther than Alexie Romanov, so
?f the late Czar Nicholas II."
Guy spent more than two year
tnackirig down leads, indexing hi
ateriia.l, doing research, and in
ervieWed more than 100 people
nd in so doing has put to-the
a stony which is stranger ? the f
fiction.
During the time Guy was Join
"leg work" for his L'UI;PERIA
AGEi'i' he ran into certain Am
ericarts, within our government
agencies and defense industrie
who were working with the enem
Guy Richards is that kind o
newspaper man that all newspape
men dream of becoming some da .
He has a keen nose for news, ani 1,
he ha the ability of tracking
down, and then relating the info
motion to the reading public in
most interesting and revealin
manner.
Guy is a. former city editor of th i
New York Journal-American, .
presently on the editorial staff
the World Journal Tribune in I
York. 'ie is a columnist and is
graduate of Yale
lVLGU I Hlci.l VL Ll lp C VUULU 1.JU1a
recoo iz'e him as being one of t
foremost and must cutstandi
Journriis't in the country. He s
married to the former Miss Ma'
F Zrances Lavine of Pelham, , t l
daughter of Mrs. Gussie' Lavi
who resides on Barrow Avenu
and who is Guy's biggest boos r 1
for hi new book. I
Watch' the book stores and wh n H
it goes on sale in this area be su eJ
to get your copy of MPER, ,
130010-7