OUR MAN IN THE KREMLIN SECRET POLICE, SPYING DOMINATE REGIME AND ALL AGENCIES ABROAD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600260004-7
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: November 1, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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Our Man in the Krem in
Secret Police, Spying Dominate
Regime acid,lll Agencies Abroad
(Second in a Series)
By' Frank Gibney
By mid-April, 1961, Grevill
Wynne, the British business
an in whom Col. Penkovsk
ont_}ded, had taken Penkov
liy'_ letter to Eritish an
e can intelligence officer
London, In it, the Sovie
etieral Sta officer'd scribe
n detail his position in Mos
ow, together with his motive
A volunteering to spy against
he Soviet regime.
He promised to arrive i
ondo , later ; ;Wt , month, i
barge o a -.visiting Soviet
f , eeh al aid in
tt _e is Many o
e
se
a t intelligenc
pecialists ,_ p Penk4
wn corn ec tie eta Qm
itte f " o_ ~
cientific e whir
egulated all coz}t , and ex
--cover name for the three- I
year Soviet military intelli-
?genee school. He had served
as assistant military attache l
in Turkey, in 1956, run an area
desk in Soviet intelligence
headquarters and helped se-
lect and traih intelligence of-
ficer candidates-one of the
most sensitive jobs in the
soviet system
.
oviet scientists and business
-The Colonel was also a.
en, veteran artilleryman who had
Penkovsky's own record and taken the special Soviet Army
osition were quickly checked edu'se in military missilery at
ut in London and Washing- the Ijzherzhinsky Artillery
on , and if Western intelli school. He was the former
ence had dreamed up the aide and still the confidant of
erfect man to penetrate the Chief Marshal Varentsov, who
rewlin's secrets, it could
the Soviet tactical
arly have done better To siie troops,
1 vas then 4 years old` assile troops.
a j, full cglonel iq In almost every respect,'
~nkovsky was wired into the
t army ate 31, kelay}et hierarchy. His great.
rad}uated both from the'hncle, Valentin `i'enkovsky,
1 runze N)ilitary Academy (the,v,as a lieutenant ;;encral; his
pviet Staff college) and the
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The SPA It overnment goes hgence officer or' agent. They control our. whole ,Army tral Con2uitttee. of the Pa y,I
and Military Intelligence, too. only seccmdly, of the Minis ry
1n e, force for q a e on such Here are some of the So- . m?: These Security scoun-
.,e 1~...-oi`er.. -'d'I~'nirc (lftnn hPl
regime: . that ly everywhere. I saw fewer of
stitutian In the U.SS.R A Soviet ambassador is S--ii st
By Oleg Penkovsky does not have in'it an iii'teI- them under Stalin"than now. of all an employe -of the C n-
tnrougnou~ nil VWU gVVe111- g.IH000$ L'IIU1e11, 1110 XtLau'G'111y -
? all spies. doctors they visit, how in hi
merit fully eight ears afte - :of Sciences; Union of the $ed ..
Any Soviet citizen o has drinking they do, their mor Is. de-Sta'linization hod suppose - Cross; State' Committeetkf
ly thawed Soviet sdcic~ty. anything at all to do ;with the Meanwhile we in Military -n-1
dultural Relations with Fttr=
work of foreign countries or ai.c?-Cr entries. The list is telligence watch the Secu tyl
en 4vs y ? Khrushchev_'s 'peaceful eoex, ;. y ' make, how they live a id appalled by the network of Trade; Council for
isteiice" and 'struggle for whether it accords with th rl
cr.i a'e e,i r'i ' n nrrriPrc hi; f`n?ri AX -- -, -p the faire of the Rimgiwn (
11 ,y ?f _ abkolutely everything t h t
dk ener SStasff oncrer, lSy spy a'pparat ,'hat- is what tion .(almost 100 per cent
r' = Q+-,he Securit) Ministry of goes on: the purchases peo ie
blocking hi promotion to gen curity spies, on everyone, n-
erai). eluding us in Military Inte li-
;.. n .:
As a rofessional soldier ex mri our early swollen International book Associa- gdnce. Security police wa h
putting;; a Sudden ac mar fronn him, fearing secret police, discovery that Pen-
on `hid records (arid probably In an embassy the State e
ksvslty's father fought the Reds, in the Revolution:
a White officer in 1919-?thus ` Col., Penlco sky's great-uncle, itelibergf ely ke t away viet consulates the figure is'
bl k k almost 100 per cent
m o s t unlimited access to State Security employes. e
Ministry of Foreign Affa
secret files, and documents. s
Xpl
Other Soviet officers had 4e and the Ministry of Forei
fected to, the Wept, over `th,e Trade exist as such only in
years, but never anyone thisMoseow. Abroad everything is;l
high up in the Kremlin's op- c rolfdd by us--Three out f
crating command structure. Soviet embassy offic rs
In his own biography, he gave , . i ither from State Secur y
one big reason for his anger - itary Intelligence. Th is..
at the.~ oviet regime. Only a be stated without er r
year or twq before the State ,? til per cent of Soviet e
Security had discovered that KEPT APART-Col. Oleg Vr v ~ at deft, is 1n bass a sonnel are servi e
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