PENKOVSKY DISPUTE CONTINUES TO BOIL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600250036-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: November 15, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

WASI-i.NGTON POST
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NOV 15 1965
On Several Fronts
Contin~~ to Boil
The Washington Post t. day ten Vladimir E. Semichastny,
concludes publication on ,Page
chairman of the Soviet State
A23, of the Penkovs~y Papers Security Committee; asking forj
around which has Swirled
much evidence to support the charge!
controversy as `to` their
source and authenticity. that the papers were forgeries
Tl}e Soviet Union on Satur- On Saturday an official from
(lay pretested the publication, the Soviet embassy in.London
In addition, A letter to the
~ asked to'meet Zorza and de-
editor 13X=-The Washington Glared that the book is "a
Post from the Soviet embassy, fabrication from beginning to
! printed, today oft Page A21, :end,,.
calls the papef~ -{"a. crude l Zorza- aid the official gave
forgery co `np ,tyvo years ; only . one,$bce of evidence-;
evidence-
afterPent ovsky's conviction
. - by those" ,whom ,thy exposed
spy served."
The Washington Pgst also
is printing, on Page A22, the
first of two artic es by, Victor
Zorza, Soviet affairs expert
of ThelgancliesterGuardian,
analyzing the papers,. He
writes that "the book itself
contains the evidence?Show-
ing certain parts of it to be a
forgery even though ? other
sections of the book are evi-
dently made up of _intelli-
gence . information '"provided
by Penkovsky long before his
arrest."
Last month Zorza liad,
'writ-
an itlconsistency of dates. At
one point Penkovsky'had said
that recruitment, of,;ComMu-
nist Party menib rs in the
West for work 1gth,Soviet in-
telligence had resuni? 'in A56.
57. At another point it said
this occurred in 1960. ?
Officials at the Central In-.
telligence Agency, w h o s e
agents dealt with and inter-
rogated Penkovsky before-his!
arrest, say that they read the
papers only to d ed. e r m in'el
whether their publicatlon1
would compromise intelligence
sources, They ,refuse to pass
judgment for the press on
Authenticity.
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