U.S. STUDENT EXPELLED BY RUSSIA AS CIA MAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400480019-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: September 30, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RD
CPYRGHT
T:'ud said that in !Moscow.
Lesh' devoted much time t_
"subversive work among
Afri-ca. Students'," coordinated the
-intelligence gips of U.S. diplo-?,
mats in this country, and car
: vied out secret operations for the
CIA .
1 Trud said-that .resh had not'
been the top-ra:ll.ing CIA man in,
the embassy and referred to a
"person'Who actively leads the;
dirty spying in our country," but'
'it d d 1201 11ame anyone.
Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75=001'49R000400480019-9
=C ^C (1) - S viol cu l;cri said bay they hay
c::i': an American studant for s;~r ui g ...: Soviet propagai
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`.'.ie Soviet labor :a ac_ ~'rud said Nie :clan i :egg of the'
\lal ver ty
ties accused ,ir' of working for .. ,ra C l `mil to t'
ge nce A envy d ark ~1' in
?ncst;1e.C.c:\'it'e.. u fiCi:i:i.dlate
?u ccrn.m
e.a on the Les
i' a d t~ .ale i and Pegg cases. d
Lash, a U .S. i..mbassy ecreta ir ric
0 Was expelled Sept. 14, had! tC; t Sara ? ie to W ha JJ
served as .. contact M a.1 for :C2 t0 COri:e to ie.,.
hlc _ it charged as a SCUddat. -.
.at Los- 3150'L,,ir. ;raa a lit Once 10
rria -
w ' for the C: s
c zn l ;v t ;:, ld ,s he
ed dsrica a> s i o v led tn
`t" ccw ',n~_y as a tourist in 1C5: an
'e`- n.,a;,
The re i% said 1
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' bb -'- /J.i, ne pine: con,;ira:ea.
5:571:.: a statement CL2'_ttin o j - said he had been trained fo`
6V 10n, and ha
broug-t in anti-Soviet literat'dre
"We should like to draw the ~1 said the Soviet peop l
-attention of the foreign pu'b'lic,, wcald not ilS;:en to'his z.ander
bad par icularly is '":C':1C4f a first ti^ C
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Tne U.S. 1 raoassy had _. rv dons along the Soviet
border and then trying to
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1 a g er osi y c t:i Lud
sal fie-dolled
Soviet ptic:ie, 1, :Id S d, s:atc 1C:it fcne his exrulsi0
01'.1' count we use .:a
! ?r..c,. sal,:. "In addition to the
measures of p uaish:,:e-?- only : - -1
- -~ I...:.i alibi::; 1 have bus'::.
rare cases, particularlywhen ys Z`' n
in d :fins tll s trip, 1 also
foreloners:are involved." aved myself criminally two
An American Peace' Corps Years ago the first time I was
r
member, Thomas Dawson, 1 e.
being held by Soviet ar o,iti "Z understand that my fate
for possible t, al as > c o: d . { e r,ds entirely, upon the
vie ctor. fe ,osity of the Soviet people."
The last A: erican taker o!
e~ art on sheik c ge IIi Activ:.ics Described
Newcomb v'fott, get an I?-month Tiud ass:: lei, that Les. had
G:iteace, _'He committed sec: repared for his work in the
last Jan. 20, according to the Soviet Union by studying in1,1a-
official Soviet version. .%;nce in the U.S. Navy and then
Tan U.S., State Department I,oined the State Department to
was angered by the treatment j get the protection of diplomatic
a ven Mott and warred Ameri- iln::lurity.
can tourists about the den ,ge_-- - it accused him of going into
coming to this country. t hern \'or gray to make;