K'S DEADLY SECRET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600270018-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2000
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: October 17, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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~ ~~~ ~~~~'~ BERLIN '61 CRISIS
Mr. Zot'Za reported the Pen-
kovsky Papers also deal with)
Seer~t tlxe Berlin crisis of 1961. i
Tdr. Zorza said ,Penkovsky
reported that Khrushchev's
LON~IION, Oct. '16 (AP). ,bark was worse than his bite
k'ormer Premier $hrushchev' ; I?enkovsky reported that So-
va,Ltnted secret weapon blew u
in 1960, killing MaR?shal Mitro viet military plans were well
ran L 1`Tedelin and X00 witch him,~troops manning the first' line
tlxe Guardian said 'today
ttacked
We
t
if th
ns
which Khrushcheviboasted was treaty with?East Germany. So-
r. missile with a nuclear pro-~viet troops were in the second
l~elant, _y~or Zo~a, Commyt-line.
ri3st affairs expert pf the Gear- ~ The Soviet idea, MrY Zorza
gxxoted Penkovsky, was to win
diari; .reported. without a fight, but to be ready
FeRnkovskysa Russi~nrsentenced!to fight if it comes to that."'
to death in 1963 f~r spying for', KHRU5H BOASTS
'the West, Mr. Zorza said: Addressing the Soviet parka.-I
"The countdown went accord- tment on Jan. 14, 196, Khrush-
ing to plan, but the new mis- ~chev spoke of a tan~tastic newC
~sile failed to leave the grpunrl.:; weapon that the Soviet Union
T,he observers waited f~ , some; was developing.
20 minutes, then dame out of A The Central Comanittee of
the shelter. 'the Communist. Party and the
"At this point the missile er- - Soviet government -can inform
;,
a
s
e
e
The secret weapon about~cf defe
after the signing of a peace;
pIoded, killing 300 people, among
.them the eomander-in-chief of
the Soviet missile !forces, Marl
shat Nedelin "
The Guardian account sa:!',
the accident ocurrBd in the Fail
of 1960 as sCienti~ts rushed t.c
test the weapon irx time for th
October Revolutiox4 annivex?sar~
tlxat year.
AIR MISHAP (BLAMED
are being published nett month.
Mr. _ Zorza apliarently got an
an advance look at the reports,
atiich were nxadc to British
rou, comrade deputies," he said,
"tha;t though "the weapons we
now have re lormidable wean-~
ons, the 'e tson we have in {
.the hate g stage today is
'even mor`~~erfect, even "more
aformidable,
"The weapon which is being
developed-rand is, as they say
kin the portfolio or our selentlsts
land designers-is a fantastic
The Russians announced Oct:' weapon,"
;?5, 1960, that Ned$Iin had been' , .Then o'n March 16, 1982,
pilled in an air accident. Khx uslilchev i n d i c a t e d the
weapoxl had been perfected. At,
least in a Kremlin speech, lxe~
announced the I;oviet Union
had created a new "`global
racket" that could attack the
United States. from any direc-
tian,
`INVULNERABLE' j
"Our scientists and en-~
glneers;' he said, "have cre-;
ated a new intercontinental
rocket which they call Global.
This rocket is invulnerable to
antimissile weapons,"
13e said the ;CIA{ probably
J.he.papers wire released by the
t'IA ffind probably ha~been cut.
Mr. Zorza wrote he believes
1Jnited States.
Papers" fn Britain and the
under the title "the Penkovsky
tral Intelligence Agency:.
of the propaganda battle be-
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