SOVIETS CLAIM U.S. ORCHESTRA MEN SPIES

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August 8, 1964
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Sanitized, - Approved For Release :Cl C CPYRGHT BELLEFON'I'AINB, OHIO EXAMINER' e. 9,237 Front Edi~ Other Page, Pag Page Date: AU G 8 1964' ;OVIETS CLAIM U.S. ORCTIESTRA MEN SPIES, ,.Newspaper, Says CIA l3ad four, "Plants" In Goodman Band go V. ;ernment newspaper Izvestia has ; ,'.Maimed that four members of the Penny Goodman band which' loured the Soviet Union'in 1962 4vere spies. The newspaper charged the entral Intelligence A g e n c y l (CIA "nr a c s ruse b every chance for sending their repre. sentatives into the socialist coun 'tries." After one Goodman concert, a :Soviet musician.,critizdd one, of 11he numbers to a member of the, I band, Izvestia said. "How can one achieve bar-I rxjony," Izvestia gjrotcd the Ameri- can as replying, "when I don't know.four of the musicians. They. were planted in the orchestra be-I fore leaving." At the same time Izvestia warn ed Russians who attend. foreign ethihitions to b'd on the lookouti for electronic brains which could act as "spies," It said they might:. pick the brains of Soviet citizens.: 'Electronic brains are currently; being displayed; by the United! States in a communications exhib? it in Leningrad. Recently. the` t ritislti stared a demonstration o Sanitized DAYTON, OHIO NEWS 150,419, 189,580 i .._... . r urns Peg. Peg Pag. AU G 8 1964 Date: C:P.YRGHT our .nra Intelligence agency e ' j spi s playing in the Benny Goodman band during Its 1962 Moscow concert? That's what the .Russian newspaper, .Izvestia, claims. It alleges that' a Russian musician asked a Goodman band member why a certain number was flat and. he replied;. ,t "How can one achieve liarmony. when I don known four of the musicians? They we planted in the orchestra tbefore leaving," were SPRINGFIELD, OHIO SUN Irons ,age 1'1,0 0 6 Ed Other F P. a AUaGe 11, 1964 P PYRGHT While it:strikes the funny bone~thinlting'of .007 Types peeking over trumpets or around bass fiddles for the CIharge hag its seamy side. It could damage the cultural exchange pro- gram between the . United States ant the ti Soviet Union. . Since there is' little prospect the ultra- secret CIA will set the record straight, Amer-- cans must hang on the reassurance given by MuriF1 Zuckman, Goodman's' secretary, He j I vindicated the American spy organization: of such ridiculous sneakery by emphatically.'{ So he ft. Hclpefuly, Izvestia Is, jilst picking UP vi1"i-e Benny Goodman'lett: off, with a lot of .razz elf its own. Dig That Off-K. ey Code! a an s wo years to diT.- cover a flat note they say was blown by the hcnny Goodman, .jazz band that toured their country to standing-room-only audiences .in 1962.. The delay in accusing the hand of au?- to vodka by connoisseurs. not surrounded by the Wet Curtain. ' This isn't the first time communists have attempted to steal the limelight: in The music world Only a few ea s th . y r ago ey announced t nicutin its personnel with four CIA members, that, a Russian zither player had lost the L t os * , apparently was the sourest gr'?"~al'c lzv.estia ' Chord in 166a. They followed his ;tnry \011 .could dig up from the bottom of its already the news release that a. Bolshevik had found t. overworked propaganda barrel. but, they say, it again in a salt mine in Siberia in 1923. Force of, th'a flute-tootens wore spying._c n the Rumors have it that the Russians first be- jazz scene while hitting a few hot licks for good came suspicious of th b nd' e a s activities when t old capitalism behind the Iron Curtain. a bandsman is re otted t i " p o have sa d Like . The Russkiea were probably incensed be- man, knock off the sludge-pumps while the cause they couldn't pin the label of "Kapital- squeeze-box and doghouse take the brid !;-then fst" on the musicians. Who has 'ever heard hit It with all you got on the brass and we'll of rich, Wall Street musicians? It was also blow the roof down with a l di rea crazy alin - possible that Russians were offended by the ished ninth for these cats." After spending term "licorice stick"-vernacular in the music ' two years trying to decipher the statement i world for a clarinet, the instrument that made without success, the Russians were said to Goodman famous. Licorice is definitely assn- have declared the code was unbreakable,' and dated for ,the comrades with such beverages . certainly must have been uttered by no other tat anisette pernoct absinth nd , e a ,,,13 9 ~far~etil(drl ~~0:~4Y1."R~Ofy~~'1'~h00b`rJ?~~nce