DISCUSS [ ] PENKOVSKIY PAPERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600250025-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: November 16, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN

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CITY Jasr:in"?ton,
":: "'a'ou are looki.nir at a ni cture of a roan named ileC
enkovskiy, who in thespringy" of 1-63 was sentenced. in a oscow
court, in a treason trial., and shot. This man renkovskiy in a book
that is comin. out this week is alleced to have written a journal
of his activities which are new oubli_shed by oubleday. It's called
'The Penkovskiy Papers', and the reason that is said here, accor. dinar
to the publisher, that i-enkovskiy was shot for treason was because
he supplied information to the attest that was a ,er, factor in our
ability to face ->hrus'ch.ci:ev in the 1061 lerlin crisis, aa.t the time
of the wall, and also in the withdrawal of Cuban missiles, where
President Kennedy' was able to force the boviets to withdraw the mis-
siles that had been set up in Cuba. If so, this makes e,kovsy;zr
an extremely important fl' are, in not only the world of cr.,:Iona ; e
but in the world in eneral. Eere, at the invitation of the r'uhl
ers,, is Grevill.e ^dynne, who is a ._'nitish subject, and our guest this
morainE-, and he was L'enkovskiy's connection with the `.?iest.
Kynne, welcome to Tocay-, and I want to ask you, first off,
you call yourself a business man. Others call ;you a spy. 'ou were
sentenced by soviet secret police, or arrested by them anc sentenced
to eirrht years in jail as a spy'. ,et are your" N `4 e11, that's quite a qu(esticn, this one, certainly
became invclv.?d in imnpartant so , maneuvers takinfCC place in the his-
barl: of our two countries, and for this I was sentenced to ei cht
years bn a hessian court. tiou mentioned a moment ceo the mnortance
of ',~enkovski;y, ::.e was very important, most important. dust see
how important the '"tussiar s den: i_dered. him. It is no secret now
that nearly 400 ac,ents that had been operating. in Your country and
mine and other parts of the free world' were recalled to the -oviet
;ni.on. -'a.rshais of the Army were dismissed:. Pero'`, the chief of
t1 -a"eboro( ?}, that's the FOP, tr",e secret police, was (_-.emoted.
c ha sr, It been heard of red. ,nt1;y . I t shows ho", important the i-us-
slans view it. f.paar't from ti' -t, rrenerals of the Army have been 0._s-
missed, and people in civilian jobs in high places, who have an r-
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