CZECHS CHARGE YANK'S A SPY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400290006-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 19, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Vienna, Nov. 18 (AP)
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Czechoslovakia before his ar st in Prague Oct. 31.
In his confession, CTK said,
Kazan-Komarek "explained his
activities, stated the circumstan-
ces under which he carried them
out and described the persons
who helped him."
CTK said Kazan-Komarek, a
naturalized U.S. citizen, was
"specially trained by a foreign in-
telligence service to organize
anti-state activities on Czechoslo-
vak territory." -
The agency did not indicate
Vladimir Kazan-Komarek
what foreign intelligence service
it referred to.
Kazan-Komarek, 42, was born
in Czechoslovakia and operates
the Harvard Travel Service in
Cambridge, Mass. Ile was -ar-
rested in Prague when a Soviet
Aeroflot plane stopped there on
a flight from Moscow to Paris.
Kazan-Komarek was returning
to the United States after attend-
ing an Intourist conference in
Moscow and the flight was-not
scheduled to stop in Prague.
The Soviet government informed
the U.S. Embassy in Moscow
today that the aircraft was force
to land in Prague because o
radar trouble.
CTK said Kazan-Komarek acted
with a group in Czechoslovaks
that smuggled Czechoslovaks t
West Germany. CTK said Kazan
Komarek left Czechoslovakia i
1948, the, year the Communist
seized .power,' but later mad
agency said to clay a
several illegal trips to the ro?intry.
The agency said that a"11-inr
the visits he "passed of coded
intelligence reports to a Czecho-
slovak woman identified as Marie
Hufova, who assured their trans-
rested by Czechoslovak authori
ties.
CTK said Kazan-Komarek "sue
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