COMMUNISTS CHARGE MORRELL CIRCULATED 'SLANDEROUS' PAPERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500280020-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 7, 2010
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: August 8, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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? Communists Charge"
Morrell Circulated
'Slanderous' Papers,
the university because of a vfis
puts over. a thesis he w t. f,
ing on Communist leads ink
Soviet trade unions.
Komsomol Pravda also said
the other American strident,
!whom they called "Stan,py D,
Crabby," itad served w(ift the
1U. S. Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) before coming here as al..y'.
student. The paper said this in-
.formation was revealed In a ,'
denied the charge, too, and saidI .
Mr. Morrell was expelled tram
rell was expelled Jmm Russia!.;.
for esnionaae. Mr. Morrell oalledt>
Times, which no subscribed,
to. lie said Russian stir ante
around his room was Time
Magazine and the New York,
reporters Sunday the only
reading material he had left
.
MOSCOW, Aug. g-The Com?:"
munist youth newspaper ICom?
somol Pravda says American
exchange student Edwin Mor?'`.
yell, - 30, left slanderous, anti? t..
Ccmmunist literature In the(
rooms of fellow students at Mos? ,,
cow University. tC
Mr. Morrell, anether Ameri,f,
can and three British students,
were accused by the Russians',,.
of trying to ferret out. Soviet
secrets and of carryipon antl4
Communist activities. All five,
have left Russia. i