SPIES AND SUPERSPIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600250046-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 46
• Content Type: OPEN

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CHRISTIAN SCICNCE
MONITOR
E. 174,093
State
of the
nations
By Joseph C. Harsch
Washington rMni; in f astern' h%rope a it could not be challenged
Those who, like the writer, yared Swiatlow de- back in Warsaw. Many, .a
have been following with ried from Poland. Swiat- man.: in the Polish Govern-
fascination the' emerging emerging ow was one of the top men ment was ., profoundly
story of Col. Oleg Penkov- 312 the Polish sect police. shocked to discover that Po-
sky can only wonder what Why he "came over" has land was in truth a "satel-
repercussions ha..,e already never been disclosed pub. lite." The shock wave 'd s-
occurred through the vast 7it1v He did, After Western turbed not just ordinary
bureaucracy of the Soviet intelligeaee r teams had Po s. It also shook many 'a
-
Union. sucked hhn,dry of useful in- Pole who believed in coin
Exp. er_ts` in these matters formation, areful thought munism, but also in Poland's
es iii nate that ie c-fi ccovery 'as givei to the use to be i having its own national life.
of `Co&onel- Penkn isky's 'de. made of it. The shock wave of the
ection must have set the Tito's `crime Swiatlow disclosures split
t
hole Soviet spy>apparatus essential fatute`{ o the.,(~munist Party of Po-
ack Ti7,.snany, roan , land.' It separated and di-
.
jtis story was that the entire
rixontlis ,pQrhaps even y police apparatus ' 'in every vided out the-- Russian
For example, I enkove 'a sij from the native
East European ContMunlst
former masters had to as Poe- armed the Poles
sx.a$ wps controlled directly
some that he had disclosed agalktt the stooges. The old
a totally from Moscow. 'it
to British and American in pf Moscow-trained clique was
telligence not just, a matter of re-
the ` names of hlgwn out of power. In the
-,zngte influence. It was"'a
every important'eiiisting So ~Qjl Gomulka, himself a
viet secret agent.' That Ater.. ni a Rued Yn secret ttit of the Stalin era ter-
would mean that from thece o cei in c arge
Soviet point of view their q secret ,police in Poland,
entire apparatus for gather- ` zeciioslpvakia, East Ger
ing infoormatioh iti' the West many, Hungary,' Romania,
rbanred"'Ali and Bulgaria.
had been cm
me backto power.
apparatus wars
p
the old timers would haxva tb ,only j Yugoslavia was
Solis,` not conintand
,be recalled and replaced by tis not, true. This is the
real reason for the 1948 '~ It i x of too much 'to say
entirely new and unknown'