WHY THE SOVIET COLONEL CHANGED HIS COLORS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600260003-8
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 31, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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the Soviet Colonel
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rS Papers: Part I
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rant of colonel.,
I- have received'
Party of the Soviet
nce`wTth the
the Communist
Col. Penkovsky, flanked by
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wo rorns aflypmg~er noisy).
uring working hours I ks
usy, runnin lie m n etween,
he v o 2mations
and
ilit igence ea quarters ndY
he o ces v committee
1040. I am married; as depen. ents I
have my wife, one daughter 1d my
mother.
I have never been E r'i.a im-
inal?or political offensf.,. i een
awarded 13 government ipns
(five? orders and eight meda a
resident of the city of Moscow, live
on Maxim Gorky Embankment ouse
No, 36, Apart & e t 59.
n
-1 am begin
i the notes that follow
to explain mv~oughts about the sys-
wards, hears the death sentence at has Moscow trial May 11, 1963.
7dm~, place m my desk. My family' was lost. Mother told me that my father
ould not find it even if they knew saw me for the first and last time when
And they know nothing. I was only'four months old.
It is a lonely struggle. As I sit here My father was a lieutenant in the
n l2loscow, in my apartment and write White Army. I learned this only re-
own my thoughts and observations,. Gently. My father fought against the
can only hope that the persons in ; Soviets. I still do not think they know
hose hands they eventually fall will the whole truth about him. If the State
nd them of interest and use them for Security forces had known all along
he truth they say. that he was in the White Army (al-
though I was only a few months old at
Bite Russian Parentage the time), every door would have been
dt idC~14~F~~P~7't!'0900~d0~ for
Civil War, during which my,father membership in t. a party an especial-
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My even ll s.are generally occupied;
is pnit` ; y'; b When I it my
riends in the cpuntry, it is worse.,
omeone may rah
.Here a come a east ave
oing. -- -- r ~
tern in which I live and my revolt
against this system. I am fully aware
of what I am setting out to do. I ask
that you believe in my, sincerity, in
my dedication to the real struggle for
peace.
I must write hurriedly, hoping that
I will some day have the, time to
elaborate or explain. I am unable to
do this all at once-or to write all I
know and feel-for the simple physi-
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In presenting the above, I want to
say that I have not begun work for
my new cause with empty hands. I
understand perfectly well that to cor-
rect words and thoughts, one must add
concrete proof confirming these words.
I have had and do have now a definits
capability for doing this.
Condensed ti,,,, the forthcoming book, "The
Penkovsky Pxnea';,' 1965, Doubleday & Co., Inc.
MONDAY: Penlcovsky maneuvers an
official trip to London to meet Western
intelligence elficers.
,
,
er, intrigue, inform, cut each other's Using the Peacelovers
throats. In pursuit of more money and HE SOVIET leaders know that the
advancement for themselves, they be-, T Western world, and especially the
come informants fqr the State Security; Americans, do not wish an atomic war.
on their friends and fellow workers. They try to use the Western desire
Their children despise everything So- for peace to their own' advantage.
viet, watch only foreign movie films It is necessary somehow to drain the
and look down on ordinary people. energy and to divert the great material
Our communism, which we have and living strength of the Soviet Union
been building for 45 years, is a fraud. to peaceful purposes - not 'to brim:
I myself am a part of this fraud. about a great world conflict. I think it
Some disease or infection is gnawing is necessary to have meetings secretly
and eating at our country from within., conducted, not summit meetings. Those
The ideals that sq.- many of our, Khrushchev welcomes. He will use the
fathers and brothers died for have, decisions reached at summit meetings
turned out to be nothing more than to increase his own prestige.
a bluff and a deceit, I know the army This you must understand. That is
and there are many of us in the offi- why I write these observations of mine
cer corps who feel . the same way. to the people of the United States and
But they are afraid to unite for action. Britain, I ask only that you believe
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here is alone. "ieelie el L
the Soviet system," T waste 'rou"g"h t up ASSOCIATE with highly placed,
in a Soviet environment 'nd ?rprnthe important people: ministers and
very first, when I went at 18 to the marshals, general and senior officers,
Second iey Ar illery School, I wanted members of the Central Committee of
the Communist Party of the Soviet
to be a commande th" Sov
~~' Union. I praise our leaders, but inside'
During the war, mmanded a bat- me I wish them death.
tallion. By the end of the war, T was Khrushchev's is a government of
a lieutenant ial Kpn v re olrtmenclecle_p-eaction,'
lvf
fy eebanner of thein strugg esfor peace.
the Military Staff College. But Khrushchev has not renounced ;
In 1945, 2 began the three-year course
at the Frunze Military Academy and in ' Wan He is quite prepared to begin a
1948 I pinned on my chest the diamond-" war ' it circumstances turn favorable
shaped insigne of a Frunze graduate. to hir . This he must not be?,permitted
At, the end of 1949, I w5 transferred to do.,
to the Military Diploma is Academy,',' In the past, our general staff and
the training school for the military in-
telligence service. our foreign representatives condemned
I learned how to conduct military the concept of surprise attack such as
espionage and completed, a three-year Ilitlerl used. Now they have. come
course in the English language, whicharound to the viewpoint that there is
I mastered, I believe, fairly well. In
. . great advantage to the side *which
September, 1958, after,: serving as as-
attache `yin Turkey, I From a sudden massive attack first..
sistant military, - makes
was sent to the Dzerzbinsky Military ' i what I have learned and what
Engineering Academy to. attend a nine- I have' heard, I know now that th lead-
month academic course fore the study ers of our Soviet Mate are the wilting
of missile weapons. provocateurs of an atomic war. At one
Deeds'Belied Wo time or another they may lose their
T WAS DURING ~iie struggles of heads entirely and start an atomic'war.
World War II th t first. became See what Khrushchev is doing over
convinced that it waa,#pt the Comma- Berlin,
nist Party which mg led and inspired In Moscow, I have lived in `a nu
.,us all to walk the. Ci biting road from clear nightmare. I know the extent
Stalingrad to Berlin here was some- of their preparations. I know the poi-
thing else behind us:. Russia. son of the new military doctrine as
Even more than t,e war itself, my outlined in the top-secret Special Col-
eyes were opened by my work with the lection-the plan to strike first at any
higher authorities and general officers cost.
of the Soviet army. I happened to mar- I know the design of the new mis-
ry a general's daughter and quickly siles and their warheads. I am describ-
found myself in a society of the Soviet ing them to my friends in the West.
upper class. I was one of the priv- Imagine the horror of. a 50-megaton
ileged. bomb with an explosive force almost
But I soon realizgd that, their praise twice what one expects, The people of
of the party and communism was only Moscow congratulated themselves on
in words. In their, private lives, they this.
lie
deceive
scheme against each oth-
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