RUSSIANS HIT SPY'S BOOK, AUTHENTICITY IS QUESTIONED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600250034-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: November 15, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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Russians Hit Spy's Book,
Authenticity Is Questioned
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sponded with unusual anger to wou
the publication of "The Pen- The Soviet reply said that not 1gn ' a nul'ar test ban
kovskiy Papers," a collection of 1 "the authors of the `papers' treaty with the *V esl for 10
notes and documents purported stuffed them with stereotype years. Ae -lly as partial ban
,to have been snuggled to the anti-Soviet insinuations. Using; was agrgon in 1~f J.
West by Oleg Penkovsky, a Penkovsky's name they ascribe Muche boo is devoted
Soviet intelligence officer who to the Soviet Union such con- to stori47hbout the personal
Vas executed in 1962 for spying.1 cepts as, for instance, the lives of ss ne top Soviet offi-
The Russians, as could be I concept of preventivb war, cials, mot whom are or were
expected, charge the papers are which in reality is hatched by in the ry-the type of
a forgery. But many Western: certain forces in the West. The knowledg meone as well,
experts also subscribe in whole authors of the `papers' appar- placed as Penkovsky, a colonel!
or in panto this view. ently assume that any sort of in the military intelligence,
In this country, ;the Russians' slander might be put into the would know--but which would
have reacted most harshly traitor's mouth and that they be of only marginal importance,
against the reprinting of the' could easily get away with' to Western intelligence.
book in the Washin4ton Post that." Little "Hard" Information
The book contains little I
;book other newspapers., go far as $ Many Western experts doubt
l1is known, no protest has been that Penkovsky actually sent "hard" intel ligence information with Daubled