PLAY-BY-PLAY ACCOUNT OF J-A STORIES ON DEFECTOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300150046-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 1998
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: March 11, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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to date in the strange case of Soviet defector 7Mi hall
Goleniewski, whose disclosures of Red spying in U. S.
agencies were revealed exclusively by the N. Y. Journal-
American.
On March 2, this newspaper disclosed that the
KGB (Soviet Secret Police) had agents in the U. S.
State Dept. and Central Intelligence. Agency.
The information, gleaned from former KGB Lt. Col.
Goleniewski-one of the most important defectors ever
to bolt the Soviets-also revealed:
That $1.2-million in CIA funds was passed in
Vienna to the Reds and divided in one-third shares
among the KGB, the' Italian Communist Party- and the
American Communist Party. ,
MAR 1 1 1964
Three American scientists with access to defense
secrets are working for ,KGB.
? KGB has been able to infiltrate all American
embassies in important cities abroad and "every U.S'
agency except the FBI."
O Col. Goleniewski, who passed his information to
Rep. Michael Feighan (D.-Ohio) and two aides at a ? '
secret meeting in his apartment hideaway in Queens,
charged little, if anything, had been done to run down
or clean out KGB men on American Payrolls.
The following day, March 3, this newspaper re-
vealed:
a Five American diplomats and 10 Marine guards
at the Warsaw Embassy were trapped .into giving the
ficds information through clandestine afGairs'with KGB-
directed girls.
The Warsaw e.nbassy safe combinations were
stolen and four Amcric-,n diplomats and the wife of one
were saved from exposure by the State Dept.
On March 4, the J-A disclosed Col Golcniewskj had
accused 19 Americans of working as KGB agents-12
in the State Dept., four in the CIA and three as
scientists.
Two days later, on March 6, it was reported that
the CIA-prodded by this newspaper's revelations-had
backtracked on its cover-up attitude toward Col. Gol-
eniewski, and granted permission to the Red defector
to testify secretly before the Senate Internal Security
Committee.
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