LIKE THEY'RE GONE, MAN!

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300170004-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: August 20, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON
DAILY NEWS
AUG 2 0 1964
CPYRGHT
from communist coun-
tries .to the ;Western world are' to be
',welcomed' at all times, but, it is bound`
to evoke some second thoughts 'when a
icouple of 'Soviet jazzmen breakaway,
sand announce they want asylum in the :
;United States.
A "drummer and a saxophonist ' did ?
just that the other day' in Tokyo. , They
;slipped off from a touring $olshoi vari
;ety troupe and - told newsmen they
;.hoped to get`to. the U. S. in time to play
"real jazz," .,
But ,what' secrets can these cats bring_
us Y. copping out on Moscow? A de-,
fector. without important political infor,-
mation : or scientific data can only be,
admitted as a square. America is not '
going. to, concede . _that,.com'munist hi
sters are farther out than our own. In
fact, we yield 'on that ground' only to'
the Beatles=and ever A. tho they're agahhja
in ' our country, they show no signs of?~
defecting..
If these' two Russians-merely want a
better. pad -in
the ,(I. S. ,Iet them, come
- but ideologically, we justioft't di it
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NEWARK, N. J.
HEWS
1. E. 276,945
S. 417,195
AUG '111964 :'
ax ? Spy' Rini
THE conclusion-jumping record
must go to Izvestia, the offi-
cial Soviet government newspaper.
That devout defender of 'the Re
faith, complains 'that the America
C al Intelligence Agencyuse
any posse i i y,; of. sending its agent
into Socialist countries:"
The proof? During the, Benny
`Goodman Band's 1.962, tour. of the
'workers" paradise, a "prominent
Soviet musician"-the paper didn't
identify him-went backstage an
told aGoodman bandsman he didn't
like the way one piece had been
played.
The American, explained, accord=
ing toIzvestia, that four musicians
had been added to the band on the
eve of their, departure and therefore
there hadn't been enough time to
rehearser `- To' the -conspiratorial
mind, this proved- the four were
spies.
The assumptions not only absurd,
but the supposed ,fact on which it
as based.is untrue. All 17 bands-
en . were personally, 'selected by
oodman, were thoroughly investi-
ated'in advance by' the Soviet Be-
ret police and 'counterintelligence
orces, and then practiced together
or three weeks .before. leaving for
ussia.
Even if this' fantastic spying:
harge were true,' it.'would prove
my that American musicians have
s' much right to spy as Russian
iplomatst-and that the Soviet coun
erspyehecker-uppers goofed,