RED SPIES: THINGS LOOK BLACK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600290042-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 1999
• Sequence Number: 42
• Content Type: NSPR

sr~s: THINGS Loom BL
section o 40(10 Y's paper. been ousted by their most gov- The box score for the decade
ernments. They are being shows 39 Soviet Union; "diplo-
By James L., Warner that he never in fact existed- called back by their own gov- mats" declared persons, non
Ot rite Herald T,ipunr stall that he was a "plant" on West- ernment and sources around grata, four dismissed or denied
A full r 0 ~'t o~t:`t/ie.background of the Pefhovsl,?y recall of Soviet' attaches andjthem from the USSR and..31
A son of one of the top Rus can servic e i, It can ix stated tat.e. A purge cood mean ih and 15 excluded from re-entry.
Sian intelligence chiefs is among with c.i t~, leinl,le authority firing squard or a? more fainful Among the satellite countries,
more than 300 Soviet inti.h- t)'-al there :ports are lgot true. death nine "diplomats" were declared
gence men summarily recal,edl Among; those recalled for Scores of Soviet and satellite persona non grata, one infor-
fo1 "Consultation" and poseblel"cousulta Linn" hss Va has? i tr. 1--_-____.t_~ ma,iv -.,,..+.A ?., 1- .,,A
l -; .. .. ,,. least two from the Russian
4Ttibune learned Iasi night. Embassy here and a man and
Careful investigation in woman from the Soviet Emn-
1 Western capitals shows that btussy In Ottawa.
I that the recall of Russian in-
Embassies invoiced
telligence agents whether
--I
not cloaked as "diplomats." is
continuing. It is the result of
the trial and execution of Soviet
Col. Oleg Penkovsky in Moscow,
accused of being a double agent
. and leaking, information to the
West.
The sudden disappearance of
Soviet agents from world as-
signments , ham caused the
Kremlin to,authorize the state-
invent tli are going hon3e
to Russia because of sickness
in their ' families. Western -In-
telligence men wryly remark
that the "sickness" must be
epidemic.
Recall fin Finland
Summarily recalled from a
post with the Soviet air lire
Aeroflot in Helsinki. Finland,
ton and United Nations head= `As Previously reported, the
quarters in New York in the PBI at any given moment has
last ten years. But ?the official about .100 Soviet and satellite
record shows only 51 expelled or.. "diplomats" under some kind of
New Information last night ` l'i from reentry,., 40 of surv#illance,
bassadors may not be f ci
from the, possible purge k% hi, Is
is. apparently shaking the en-
tire Russian intelligence up-i
paratus. Mexico City long had';
been a center for the direction
of Russian espionage In Latin
America, until Castro came
Into power it., Cuba. i
However, the Soviet am '
bassador to Mexico, Slime
Bazaruv, whose service there,
has been relatively brief, hats
told friends that he, too, ha
been summoned back Lp'
Moscow, Best, Information here ..is
that the Soviet concern ove
penetration of Its intelllgenc
was Vladimir Soros, son services is part of a larger \1
Ivan Serov, one of the topIpower struggle within the Soil 1
Soviet intelligencr. chiefs, at j Vii! Union.
least one of its front men. Then This is between the hard
father has been demoted in nuserl mtlitary mein who wutlct' ?`'
Moscow, and according to sortie Just, its soon start war tow,
reports is tinder arrest. and more moderate civlihln'
Best information available leaders who favor the long-`
here from sources abroad is range Communist policy of -'
!?
that Col. Penl:or?sky was exc- avoiding war on the theory
euted, as the Russians the-u- democracies will exhaust
selves reported, des;,' some Iheruselves and f:.:1 prey to
reports that the whole affn,rjComrnunist stags ultimately,
may have been rn laboratc;ccitheut military aaa oil except
hoax and that the 'C;rtnel w;t.;Jpressure In fr'.nge t.3-ea' Cut,a.
not shot, rd tour-.e is a. cstst .1. poiut.
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Approved For Release 2000/04/1 : CIA-R P75-00149R000600290042-2