CIA HIDING RED DEFECTOR FROM PROBERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600160062-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: March 4, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

FOIAb3b NEW YORK 4 1964
JOURNAL AMERKK.tiLr
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OOZE., s JATE G1' U P SEE':[( M t E SPY DATA
By GUY RIC BARDS
C PYf 'I Ti 1964, N.Y. Journal-American
"I am flying up to see you for iii
formation on the whole story which oh
viously can't be given over the teI
phone."
With these words, Rep. John Milai
Ashbrook, ( .-Ohio) announced his aa'
rival later today in the offices of th
N. Y. Journal-American.
His. puripose, he said, wt to lean
all details and background about tb(
sensational disclosures by Soviet_secre
police defector and former high-rani
ing official, Lt. Col. Michal Golenie
ski, and related stories published i
this newspaper.
Rep. Ashbrook, a member of th
House Uii-American Activities Coin
mittee' added:
"Ir want tog get ever}- particle o
ilafnl?lrlatinu I can get about Goleniew
S'ki's charges of KGB agents in th
State Dept. and Central Intelligent
Agency.
"I note that the Federal
master in sequestration for,hrs:`"I 1'Vant All Information",
wn safety, claims he was once
iighly useful, but is now unde-~ Continued
endakle,
ate a read y engageu in e DIFFERENT STORY
classic maneuver they used one it also claims he never in-
Infer Bang Jensen, trying to
formed it of the' KGB agents in
infer that Col. Goleniewski hasi
?one off his roekci." the State Dpt. and the CIA.
Col. Goleniewski said the ~rca-
t]::d. note: Povl Bang-Jen,en,sot1 high CIA officials may not
tva s a former Daiuish diplqunathave received the Information
dismissed from the United Na-ltt;as that It had been quashed
dons, and later fonnd shot to'before reaching them by some
death in Alley Pond Park-of its own agents.
Queens, on Thanksgiving Day, Emissaries of the Legislative
1959. Although New York Police branch, including a Congress-
officially list his death as a man, and two aides who inter-
suicidc, the Senate Internaliyicwed hini-one of them twice
S c C u r 1 t; Subcommittee, rc-'-state that the Colonel Armed
ported ?ti:.]eet 11e 119113' huvt!,entirely sound of mind and very
been a. victim of a Soviet "poll- convincing when he bared the
~t.ical nu rder dressed up as a, existence of these agents, and
suicide.'? named names.
"It is vitally important," Rep. Thus, both branche of the;
Ashbrook continued, "that Col, Government may be speaking
Goleniewski appear before my in good faith with what theYl
committee. "It Is high time actually have, or haven't'
the whole State Dept. and its learned, from the Polish-born
policies be brought to account. defector.
It has consistently lied about BALANCE OF POWER
such Communist penetration' The case bids fair to become
as those made in Warsaw.
,
f
Washington, and elsewhere.,, a c.assic in the balance o
Rep. Asl~brook's sudden de-I power between two of the three
York mlrrpred the stepped-up
activities of several Congres-
sional committees which. fol
lowed publication of stories
this week in the Journal-Amer
ican,
A number of members or in-
vestigators from Senate and
House panels called this news.
paper yesterday, seeking help
and information. They wanted
directions for finding Col.
Goleniewski, who is still in a
CIA hideout.
They wanted fill-ins on one
of the touchiest aspects of this
unique 'case-the conflict of
.versions of the defector's story
as relayed by spokesmen of they
Executive and Legislative
branches of the Government.
The. Executive branch, which
Is holding the erstwhile spy
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