RED SPIED ARE IN THE CIA, STATE DEPARTMENT: DEFECTOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300150091-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 1998
• Sequence Number: 91
• Publication Date: March 2, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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CHICAGO MAR 21964
DAIT.Y, NEWS,
CPYRGHT
NEW YORK (AP) - l he police has informed U.S. offi-
New York Journal-American cials Moscow has placed active
:reported Monday that a de- "cells" in thc''('cntral Intelli-
fector from the Soviet secret Bence; Agency and the State
Department.
The newspaper said the de-
fector is Michal (I6leniewski,
41. it Polish-born agent. It said
he was it high-ranking operative
in Russia's KG13 until his de-
fection in .1961-and is sure
the "cells" still are operating
in the two high government
agencies in Washington and
overseas.
'the Journal-American ac-
count said of the defector:
"He has named names. He
has provided Washington with
details of what looms as a
greater scandal than the fa-
moos Alger Hiss case."
TIfi; STORY listed these
disclosures said to have been
made by (iolenic%%ski:
-"Approximately lion of CIA funds in Vienna
recently was passed secretly
along to the Communists-
one-third to KGB (the Soviet
secret police), one-third to the:
Italian Communist party and,
one-third to the American,
Conumttill ist party.
-"Three American scien-.
lists with access to defense
.secrets are working for the
KC113. 'I'hce have ties to others
in the same category whose
identities are unknown to him.
But he has cities to it number.
of them.
=""KGB has been able to
infiltrate all American embas
lies in important cities abroad. ?
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