UNDER EVERY BED IN MOSCOW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600290030-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 1999
• Sequence Number: 30
• Content Type: NSPR

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Under Every. Bed in Moscow
it, the ill-rated Bay of, Pigs in- with Penkovsky. And 300 Russian {
vi sidit proved the fJ.S. Centritl fn- intelligence agents -- including
ta'tligence Agency to be as subject Serov's son, Vladimir-have been
"error as less sacrosanct arms of recalled from posts around the
.tlh government,, the Russian Pen- world for "consultations" in the
kcZvsky. 4py case has proven the Kremlin, which blandly explains
CifA not entirely bumbling-and that all of them are simply return-
tliet its Soviet counterpart has its ing home because of illnesses in
triubles, too. their families.
'IThe central figure of the case, But the very fact that the Rus-
OOeg Penkovsky, a former Soviet sian security system could be so
scientific coordinator, has already shaken by the Penkovsky case
b&n executed for passing some makes it a feather in the CIA's,'
5,f00 secret documents to the West. cap, although one the agency sure-
Hx chief go-between with U.S. and ly would have preferred to do
British intelligence agencies, Brit- without. A caught spy, however
iso businessman Greville Wynne, valuable the information he has
has begun serving an eight-year provided, is worse than useless.
p e i s o n term. And 10 U.S. and Still, it's reassuring to U.S.
British diplomatic employes have citizens to know the CIA was able
been barred from Moscow for their to penetrate the Iron Curtain in
,alteged relations with Penkovsky. such manner, and to find a rela-
The reverberations are not end- tively high Soviet official willing
ed; however. Gen. Ivan Serov, for- to sell state secrets. And it's even
mer Soviet security chief, is under more reassuring to know that the
arrest, stripped of his position as Russians have such doubts about
deputy chief of the general staff. whom they can trust that they're
Wjth customary evasiveness, Mos- now at least figuratively looking
cvw says his difficulties result
from his "monstrous acts" as a under every bed and inside every
secret police official under Stalin closet in Moscow to see if more
rather than his close past links Penkovskys are lurking there.
Approved For Release 2000/04/14: CIA-RDP75-001