U.S. REJECTS 'SPY' PROTEST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400460036-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: October 6, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

OCT 6 1964
Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RD
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'Hits Red Charge
In Attache incident
By BERNARD GWERTZMAN
Star Staff Writer
?rne' United States today re-
,jected Russian . charges that
four Western military attaches
,were engaged in espionage ac-
tivities while traveling from
{ The State Department ,denial
,came on the heels of a 'Soviet
;'note which ignored Western
protests that Soviet officials had
forcibly entered and searchM
Department Gives fetal
of the story as released yeste
day gbes like this:
In mid-September, 'Nigel
Laville, an assistant Britis
naval. attache, and the thre
George A. Aubrey, of Annapoli
of Oklahoma-received perms
Office to make a trip the leng
>y_ship from the Russian po
the hotel rooms of the httaches
a--three. Americans and one Bri-j
ton--in the ' city of Khabarovsk,
in the Soviet; Far East.
A note delivered by the Soviet!
Foreign Ministry, to the United
States and British embassies in i
Moscow to
day ac?eusodthe at-r
pan they were to return to th
Soviet Urion via Hong Kon
and India.
It was obvious to anyone wit'
even a rudimentary knowledg,
of intelligence that these at
taches wi:ro on a feet-findini
taches of gathering "intelli.: mission. Since their route wa
ridges, tunnels, radar installs-
ions, airfields, location of mili:4',since they would h
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