ESPIONAGE TRIAL IN THE USSR

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ESPIONAGE TRIAL IN THE USSR Brief Summary of Indictment In The Case Of Penkovsky O.V. And Wynne G.M. An -Sent of the American and British intelligence Services Clog Partillovsky, committed for trial for active c pionage against the Soviet Union, pleaded guilty to all the charges against him and gave detailed teitimosay about his criminal awivitics. a 1, ",ad of 10pirig h* 31nt y`h' i ... I Sirsic. I. April, 1961 to establish contact wi in Pankovsky, and of"erying out fill July. 1962 its staflgremeril. for the maintenance of liaison bTt- ween the British and American lord ig-nee service and the spy PC,' kiavsky. During Park.saky', via is to London and Paris in 1961, he at him, , 'Ceind aspi ... S~ material, l"Imill him atcIpalsed them to the ritith agents, took part in. orrangil" see et meetings btine. P,rikovA, Tied representatives of ke British .ad American intelligence srvic.s. While in Moscow in may-Juste and Auguit 1961, and I. July wi,li.f avid,.C4 u .a C 1 '6,, ; he delivered package, amronyd'e.,.Leals, fultil Ilk.atig.,no.as. Already Trionace information collee-ed ci May 27 he handed to Wynne, Chisholm, took from Chisholm that LIT --- S~d P - kv k ____ a - or talent with Phatographi and delivered to ParikovskY Pick- cru,t `O'f_"snmuI`ud',,r.'~y;,,.u`. classified materials, a d aho a, 71 Grevilla Maynard Wvnne, B~50 ages with instructions Of the SPY became an &goal of imperialis; to, with sm irvi.ibi. on't.'se and atlrcm~trsd for Ilia (,r attive headquarters. photographs of 1,61ligance services. received from him a le, ter with in. i ttheSovi tUrion structioms and a batch of film. .,P,onCg..gI .. I pleaded guilty 10 the cha'90 Of .,pinnaeg' , ii,sting th,t b I bld fulfilled he functi,mis-fli-110- man between thespyPeckovsky .ad In, her, If thisBritishand American in jolligo-ce services. A, ~twtd. iDla, the indict- " IT no . f Pankov- Said Wyo.., P.LikovIky :tanl, accused ,I Will " Ma C. . I. I A Loudon in April May, 19~1 ,a,. a written codartakarig to Co. "are with the British Cold P AMC, and a lilialin , . ST.,. secret of 'he an Illy TO S.,ii,t nice. Wbil..e official . . U - London, in July- pralonorl, S An,.. '961 ' and to Paris. in Y ep- To nober_Octabe, of the nuut I-', he met repeatedly with Britidsh and American agents at secrett O,d,.s g;v,6iaw;VlCp;1'n't'.`r, icf,*, r r ni ad received hristrianton I- "'I" I t,.h.iqu-. Drill, g hi a a.o,,,:,`id. With be British md A i- int'llig.p. Services, `7 IT Cc to the day of his acres', I r ad .~ijed radio snessISTS floor the spy IT a . d q u - hl It I r - , "' regularly wit repre; : ,rotin, of The B,it a ,.,d knoukar, intalligancii service Wyo.,, ChisbOlaa Cold Moscow streets, hal I w.m hotel, a' ., official car diploma tereceptions held by staff Member' Of the Ecallball,la, Of Giant R+.j. and be U.S , Iccli- said iuat- I... ad still ... 11 equipment from agents. cOuv-yId "Cost i'lo,malion TO 1 am a,- holly, in wri tell TorPort'i and .. ti.ag film 7 i.e. o compral ~I is , . , I I I , Y plan,".ph - a.. or ~',tioc " of the Criminal Code of he Russian Federation. agents. a Minox camera and films for it, and also colnUircri, for the delivery of ispitulas. Material, by Pori Thus IT is Call, It of a Crime Conrad by Article e5 of he Criminal Odde of the Russian Federation. "~yrlce wmmmr,,*l,d by the Stat: .city C. . . under lb council of Minister, of the USSR an November 4, 1962. PC k.,sky'- Criminal Set iv itic. :,,,c,,,, ad by mlleri,,il~-, done-. x ~irim rdioS., Live ,jura par,, ou;,;h, L,atinmny of the acers:d ace a Confrontation with Wynne. witnesses' to'( irromy and clocuments. uhnisal activities are by the testiroorlyof the accused Pa. i:dvIky, a C.1 tion with him, witnesses test 1. 0. April 20. up.. a,,iy.l I. So aftial mission I. Load.., Pa.- kov,ky handed to Wvnmo two pa.laigs. with t-pa"C"'t a for..- tio.. 0. 111 day With Wyntals strisIc'.11h". TrIt with representative, of the British and American intelligence services. Subsequently, b'f.LC his dep~rfturc I r u in London, PC.k.,.ky bad title. more Mae[- fings with these me,, . On Mait 3, he pledged I. writing to C.- During his next visit to Britain: from July 18 to August 8, Pankov- Felicity Stewart r a C k a t troops, about Soviet (troops stationed To the GDR, about preparations for the conclusion of a peace trFaty wi~h the OUR, about the develop- Mont of Soviet-Chinese relations, :aad'otbar information of politic- 1, ilitary end economic nature, In August-September, Perskov- sky on three occasions passed films with photographs of Store I docu- nurru 5 to Wynne and Ann Chisholm. Arriving in Paris with a St -a secret. The ioreign &goals . Soviet delegation. Ponkovsky t.ld.~Ink-ky that the decimal cap Staidly met members of the they r ceived from him were of British and American intelligence & ... I , too. Th. py was informed services at secret a dresses. He ablutthe,;-1 -h.N.. I I. The gave away important information, as he lw.y ofN..5j6,PLLShki. St, Calved espionage brief- I I in Ing and was instructed to continue M S w. ad the procedure of clua ifi,d Ing it, During one of 11, me. liogl, poetkoyslZy idea on unifort st IT . 'ev"'I cache, of on ~orwd of the British and 1h, in Moscow for Irish Xt Cori American armed services. wbic with the intelligence service. and .... -A. f., hi. nA - to describe them is detail, to roved For Release 200OA04/14: Cl STATINTL He Was given an assuretin that _ as If ar 0 Pl. scm-ce of espionage In- to ""'let'" -ap"c"g- on Fp an - tb territory of the USSR prinativIs and to collect infor I he W cold be give. Latin about now Soviet war antle. list. In Paris Penkovsky was intro. a responsible post in the British or ducId to a high official of the America. In !I,. Y ,to IT Cris no CC Ilin Y i U.S. liatel;igesicis, Service. at his w Ihni' with . 13T 2 .000 dollars and would .1,. be paid a lump sum for his p ,it During one of the pareting&. a 0~pionage work on a 1,000- spd.1pa,swuld Was established dollars-per-month basis. Perkov- f- reserve I I at i v. at S ky Was introduced to . top With , a p ~ a a a a t a I a . .ff,cla I of the British Intelligence . f In reign mtefl~gcnca services in Service. Moscow. All the details of this 1 iai30a, involving the use of the Telephone and the cache, were I cited down by Pookovsky ". a action to sheet of paper Which we, taken fremn him during the a ... It, It start established during the 1.v0switar that bolif. fbthS I b I I I ]at W ... he a , S. A r Attache Alex a Davison he, bars living ,iCC, May, 196 1. Another We, in the flat in which the formerS,cond S.,Ct.,y of the U.S. Embassy wiffiturn J a... bad li,ed bell.,. 19 0 and Febr ... y. 1962, and which, since February, 1962 has been occupied by an Attache of the U.S. Embassy, litigh Montgomery. P.rk.vaky was introduced to a British agent, Janet-Anti Chkholm, the Wife of former Soloed Se rat- . ry of th I British Embassy in Moscow, who was simultaneously 2 me "ber of the Bri,ish Inic-Ili- 91"T."S , mints, ad .na:rv co and 'Spi a contact with Ponkovsky through Wy... whirt be Imte, came to Mos cow. Places in Mo cow were silicified where Penk,,v,kywasto pIss espionage materials toAnn Chisholm Cold jectund CW11 with instructions ..~ films fr.. he,. His apimagc ..argument. w... specifically In seekwayito Collect i,format "I about servicemen of t it a 1. order to Check the testimony of Penkovsky, an investigati?n experiment los a,,i.d at an which all the Pre arranged signals LL -n were observe . A an who proved to be U'S. Embassy .17fi.itil ltich,idl C. Jacob Came to retrieve the documenti inserted I. the cache. The itinqigatiort also established That the telephone the number of which Was give. to Plakovsky in Pa IT was in the flat wh... the form" British Assistant NiIv.1 Attache John Watley bad lived until June, 1962. and which, from July, 1962 to March. 1963 was occupied b y an official of the same Embassy Ivor Rowsall. ESPIONAGE TRIAL IN THE USSR At on Sepwirbor 5 an d Lai pealovsky had on him f1i with lop-ao,ct It n to .ad . I-P-11. b-t unable to pii~s car,.. I. I'll were Ii,,d at 1_k_k", fl. I h, IT he lus Thistairoj . During his cooptartion with he B, I itish Rod AmeTicin let, I ;crvi..T. P-k.vsSY them -verbally ed by written ir.p.,,siluill i,b Information. The aclia, d GI-ille M-Y,.rd wymar. While in Moscow I. Aruil, 1961, as . ,presentative 0 f a""- &I British film" informed . builb,'", ing diplomat at the ""ilh E.bes-Y IT M Csccw of blsco.vcriWionawi.1, P,.k.saky who hzd offered the Be fish his add .~,Ply- a ."age icif"'.. i.m. y... took a "I I, from p,rikovsky, in 119 lp vi~hich the latter Off,red his sr- va"Ca 1. tho ttvili,h Imellis, 11 Service. promised to tell Ill. P ... ~y .. c .... d in Britain about him r, took the ],tier and P.Tj TV ~ 'y . autobiography away with him. In Lr.ndon he met an agent of the B,i!isb lialHge.c. SaIli.1 who introduced himself 0. Ack,u)d, I-dad III To he document receive,, from PC k_ky and set cut in detail ills sca'asta.. of his Conversation$ with Pe.k.v- sky in Moscow. On April 20, Wynne a.- ,clived Jr. To Pmaklavaky -b.had arrived in London 'he first two packages With onage IT tri IT ,.I Is ahic luldar-cd in Ackroyd at onc% 1. paid May bad a talk wi b t a head of the Russian Section of the British intelligence Service in which Ackley 'd and ... the, British IT . t as .Se.tw O.Or.du,ed himself Roger KITTS took part, and Consented 1. carry ..I further assignmeno. Returning from Paris, pack- a In MaY-Septentlater. Wynne 011ky Plus' of bad several meetings with Pm,. ,, on ,.I,. j.,:d~lj',* or fe secret 0 Penkovsky in Moscow, Leader, information ofaraBlIary n3t he one ved from him fee delivery usoubsell .Pi..a . hirtum in'; and parl, on each occasion lect.clatly III act sitiou to prear, of a.. bllata,,f 1.ha BIT left l,telll,- Political economic and Pa. '. with films. military nature' ad passed it with P .. to the B, itisb . hotographs- of &once Service through I "lli- sec",,lt Materials, and reports, Arm a Claisliolim end fromagenu of, the intellig- v on servic., banded over to Pe~ kosky im:tl~uctlons and con- 1. July, 1962, Pookovsky, on tainers for c Pionago materials to two Occasions, passed to Yalta be P-tsacd by P.enkov,k W a 23 . In MY;C-.'Z packages with MIT a ad written aWu,g,' as received from Pectins- roporasand also discussed with sky a Pack-so with an him possible variants of bill artillery instrument. This and fliobtfroolithe USSR. Later on. another package with films -I pa!scd on by Wynne to the at a reception Pcnkovsky made the British agent Cluish:t1m, acquaintance of U.S. Embassy official Carlson and, towards the When Pesikdtsky nine to Paris, Wyraj report y to Roger King he .ad of August. passed ta him oni'a of .1 ... g" (the all.. filurs with c I a s s I f I a d under which PenkovAyl was known among British agent ma ic~,ala ad a. espi ... go Cpo," pasted to him the Classified cala"! r[,L,.w,asd alfso.LbeCo.thi~at-P-enPk-oCvks-kgyC Otis Tecraind from Perallovsky. Wyn.. ? III, all Petaktivsky's ,ai IT . lealg.d pa~pjrt to be used CrPm&es Part" If lie bad to go underground,. .ad And these were later reimbursed a Jailer If instructions wit an tii him by (be British intelligence 8ssignmetat to collect iso'cruntima Service in London. about the Moscow Military Area, in November, 196! and . jurra, 1962 Wynna had creeturigh with the b end of t a Russian Sectian of the British Intelligence Scivice and with King At the meeting in November W)mac was introduced to Cowell (now Second SICIl4l"! of the British Ecal ... y I. , who we. to , Lev,) im To Moscow to rcplace Chisholm. On July 2. 1962, Wynne arrived In Mo,cow and, meeting with Parsk-a ]kY. took from him a rlickns. ..rt.i.jus f;).a with espionage materi,ls and a writ", report. rbis package he clel ive, ad to Chiiiii and ,C.i,.d from The so ... IT 1. P-ok., ky's III. . pack,go with . .'Pionage flat an.led ' I., ged ood- ."'e'd. ' ` ,.c.lid, look-, pope' To, and n Ti far PeakocIftdria P-p w", in a dmg age,, mi liarpic it ct by tainer for espionage materials .Lure cameras, a radio used 11 jor to receive coded messages. and also photographs of Covert I . little, , Int. Old spionage equipme and his wife and of the Ameri- all found in a secret conatiCrtment can agent Carlson an Attache of I. his desk. the U.S. Embassy in Moscow) a It ofhis III: sit w4stocstablish espionage con- te acts. Wynne passed all this to P.rk,asky; showed him how to open LIT cuts iner, told him that detailed instruc- tions concerning future contacts we,. set ..I In . WTI, So d B ITS him a characteristic If the , usla agent Cowell whom be bad met earlier In London. Meeting with Peak ... ky a, Kitl,'. ,data I. oskow an July 2-6, 1962, Wynne talked to him repeatedly about his espin"So luck , I =y~d h I or and di questions concerning Peckovsky's possible flight from the Soviet Union. Pomko,Ay 'i.,a,. detained I. nagranta do to a October 22. 1962, and than arrestaill.Wyarre was arrested by the State Security Committee of the USSR Council of lvl~nistcrs on November 4, 1962,-APN. Approved For Release 2000/04/14: CIA-RDP75-00149ROO0600290023-3 ARE THERE ONLY TWO IN THE DOCK? Crimes Of US And British Intelligence Services Exposed At Moscow Spy Trial are mentioned in the Indict. .Second S,%lary W M'nt- a I .. a, Attach A i:tAnt Air Attache A. Davison, A::i tact British Novel Attache J~ V-11-Y. Second Secretaries Chisholm and 0, Cowell. and fames Embassy staff members. A Rocasell W F, Stewart, The courtroom hummed when it was revealed how the wives a I Cowell and Chisholm and even their children were drawn into *IPmna activities. For instance, passed an secret ..formation in a awe' recent tin to Ch fi-lachns , I little boy when the 1.1 to, and IT I. oth?r wZo out 7alking one afternoon in a cascow boulevard. A. Leonov, Novosti Press Agency (APN) Asian -ocari note that the interests of the US and British ititc1ligIstion act ices ox!eard over. Special Correspondent wide mulge,aluivilat thelfactivities are not only confined to the territory of fboUSsR.Iti n, I it. own that these S"'viftell Judge Victor Borisoglebsky, a smart, young-looking general, are trying to Spread their tentacle, widely known in the world as the man who passed Sentence am the to -~l of the gl?ib.. They are !t1co arly very as, se in P fro- US spy-pilot Powers, is presently examining The Is'. 0 ftwo spies. PA'sism countries, which ban Who worked, as they are putting here in Moscow, for an Arglo- pocentlyzaimed their independence Thn'trial of 0109 PMTk"'kY,,,a list a In. The. 'Issm, and Or, a rocket bases. the imperia Jay they are saying here. IS .. III cautioned to fill !f, as a in he id,,.f p .. it inCtIalyult'.... of ITT h. -trodden Path to look around Military 11 um is a British gul"C, ITS: a 'fP-','~'i.n 7p7l.m.'s and bucTime a- I the USSR for people ready to sell them vital men coming to the Soviet Union, Supreme Court in VorovskY secret$. then there is no doubt IvIal"C'e, Street. that a considerable coach, r Of the Ptulk- - sky turned up iq, this Throusanchm of US as well as u 41, ". user to as a itish. Fir ... IT Sol .,her West what P94- Zw4ter"o-lithe Sta! Co.- Europe$. diplearm' 'cramptio - end amitil-I olives, mind while listening to tbo an ittee on Co-Ordinati.. I R. r'.jCrc.,n led ictment? Apart from natural starrh Work, this 44nyoear-old ?ailing the Afro-Asian comm- and winth riall a.. traitor, who sold 'Ill. 11i.sat ambitious man sed plo,.,,,, are narcu agent. of hi of his People Joe piece. served in the Sov A~ Y bodies. of silver for a year and a half, an~. naturally. knew some can feel, i,dignatitin awaiting thing. about it. When 1, we, Ccrt~in facts, which appeared IT . - d th " P a being inside of him w on picturing the p"Onalle a "T tb'~' ficill2dear'ni earlier in ramified collaboration with this D,5,.come an agent o recalled lobby . To. a nal British S ift'alligitrice aPncics; years ago the Indian gernmement d?,p'~'.d.r..',ib.y.-....,Y.,UhSidai.S behind was compelled to annoraincothe the ... pe.,abl.-Ionki-9 f des of But both Peakovsky and hit Spy exposure of a ramified US secret IT, a, it d "I'Li itall In I Cannot. bo, ... a forgot the old truth, that Service network in Kasbralrand Taking cover b.-II the P ol; "a III,', ship doesn't sell very demanded that the US military plastic Pasp,,!,, an ti~,ililg it., let," This ' "' - observe" be ..alld fro. that .I.. balpa firm P PIT "Y'n' t'vIlefy S"i_' U to ", b Y ad by h,. correct site III area. .or only helped the renegadis, III; ftlal,~A lgyyntsel has sailed up to also activated in a I and which lies stern possible wCY the work" of this and just punishment. Shukl,6,, lmdita~m publicist, I a rally at. be, . lotti~g corrupt son - iri,,.1lbe Unitedst'atis. in Even a person, uninitiated I- were Particularly As al ead reported I. the Press P`Iiti~s. can easily make out be, I . striki sly I Y ;, in Manifested I. the 1. li!me Penkovsky was caught red-handed 'a - on behind the sect as PCs h. got 9 sty elections. The weekly, and arrested by officer. of the I 'as.. Wh:Ch reflect, fit, oil in' State Security Comoolitoo at the B t.ba getralarrep of the US end ra,.ad alarm ovarthe feet that ille all t Co. "Central latelligannis Agency was ~'dcr,%IvD,tobsr, 1962, Greville, IT Is Santa Sets: . hatchin g a plot against Premier as detained a fortnight .1odeodwould the ruling c;rcles ~` ~ - -i jag- I th display so. . I . fOllcwh3S this Itatcmsci a 6 A thorough Investigation of motion of purely military nature, if magazine, Ffir~t Secretary of the US - cI - as Try A. sitzko. this complicated case went on for they were seriously concerned, A Estma, t MyilitaryAttaehe Charles almost half a year. The as they claim, about pea" and G &Tri most were not preparing for war? oga., Third Secretary' Dun a convincing evid.. R: Claric tad the US Cup u interrogators cis I a kovskYaOdWYIm4SSsii;5: And, one more thing. isti't it in Robert E, Boise, P n iort India, is indicative that the details of because the Americans are really hastily this OTAG are quite typical Of the trailing behind the Russians In the ,,,h*d, y III ad field of rocketry that the Pentagon James H. By,~, aC~o,.1bSTxs belf"s, British ir ... : US d I b. arrived in Yin as rvices not looked aroun '*I" I a a he in he Soviet union, but in other ~secr t ways of obtai'j " In 'yj.' . t a hSg design. Itli, ir of. US relief mission, was countries as well. and specifications of Soviet "posed last year as the orgialsor missiles? of a conspiracy against the what did the US aad British national Corylonese government. bosses demand from their secret Th. accused British be.*. a'- di.t Ill. the upartimous opinion o the :uPP;y? S`Z".yt iw.f,.Tm.t*jhCm it, man, Wynne, I. greatly Tested ,,,an I ... I junpaili. a that I ha' .Cmomia and poll last attire, ~y the fast that his flarm I Ta ra I IS now In danger of going Moscow trial is not over two informed . IT Soviet achieve- an the rocks: it Is uncertain "T"C' 'a 'he dcok with Olog I ants in science and t6chool-gyj who, he Still be able to study P.TillurskyanclGiovill. Wynne are .f.rimation, on if,. personnel a he firm-. lodgers again He was thal, basses, the laid, rs of the US the Soviet Armed Forcas~ Sidi the in-- who liskand criluss.k, 0 Brili.1i ii3it'llige... Services, above all, information on vvilb.,~ha p atgam*fe, I,.., court wil't in. I our tarn and I. no hm or. but Sterner will military rocketry. Having suf areu has Cry igh I. ." di, j. fia". re ith the Scandalous U-2 hat his spy business pact.. be the verdict of world nice. 1 1, 11 of 2th the spy Pines flig)tj and, notably. The US and British dip milli. whishis most indignant w' Powiril imactoodis ut attempt is of the US and S . t representations aren't seated next perfidious actions obtsia aerial p:c1ares of ovic m him in the dock. Their name, British lmlcyislia~ circh's.-APN, MVAN-MA ATHAN BURMBSE FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1%& 4 TRANSMISSION 16 9.71 gr 314 Meaning, 0715 Recorded Music 0730 NEWS 0740 Recorded Mush, MID Market quotation, 0820 News In X. 0830 CIO" Down. TRANSMISSION IL 42, 3'& 314 Mottos.', 1100 Listenuars' Rosinessaij 1130 From today's papars 1140 Live Mu.j. (classical) 1210 Recorded Metal. 1230 Educational Programme 1245 Recorded Mush, 1300 News and Otinnames Advartivemente 1315 Recorded Music (330 Close Dow.. GITMNSMISHON ID. 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