RUSSIAN PULLBACK IN SHADOWY SPY WORLD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600290053-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 1999
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: May 19, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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Spy World
By James E. Warner
Of The Herald Tribune Staff
WASHINGTON.
Russian intelligence chiefs are so shaken
up over Western penetration of their ranks
that they have summoned at least 300 of
their top operatives back to Moscow for
"consultation," the Herald Tribune learned
last night.
Two men have been called back to the
Kremlin from Washington. and at least
three more are slated to leave. One attache
has been recalled from Ottawa. Others have
been recalled from posts all over the world.
Whether any of them will be returned
to their former posts after examination by
their superiors in Moscow remains to be
seen.
Apparently every ]lussl:tn attache or
civilian intellixen:e employee who had any
contact at any time anywhe.r in the world
with Col. Vladimir F. Penkw. si:y. executed
last week as a traitor it: the latest Moscow
spy case, has been summoned home. There
is little doubt that the colonel. a top man
in Soviet intelligence, was in fact a double
agent, dealing with the West, as the Rus-
sians themselves charged.
It was equally apparent L at in calling
their men home the Russians feared riot
only the British and French secret services
and the American Central Intelligence
Agency, but also the American FIlI,
The CIA operates outside t!ieit'll ited
States around th eworid: the FBI keeps
tabs on espionage within this counts y,
which makes the recall of two mep-with
more to come-from the Soviet Embassy
here, an indication of the inlportanc,: put
upon the Penko?,,:ky case by the Kritniio.
'T'his in'bnnation 'gas obtained by tic
Herald'Iribunc f:om sources both hEr,, rod
e.hroad which can :got be named, bat
union urc considnrcd unimpear_l.aole in L.?
shadowy world of intelligence and coupter-
intelligence.
Few, if any, of the 300 recalled Russtap&
this country.
Recalled from the Soviet Embadsy In
Golsov, assistant air attache. Also gone
home is Oleksey Koichin, formerly em-
ployed in the embassy's military attache
office. He may be a civilian.
First to go home to Moscow,. when,the
case first started to break, was Col.,Anatol%
r :lv';ackov, assistant air attache at the
lie and the others are known`to'have
had professional contacts with ', :he late
teilligence branch, tied KGB, the ct1!U~f
sppa. atus. This in turn, can, and ? rc i `
ably does. reflect the power s1iuRY10 :n
:olio;, on be~wte?i the more Inoderah
c:riltan leaders and the hard-nosed mill,
tats men who want nillitaary action now
without waiting for tt# promised collapse
of the West without sue of stach fst'ce.
In any case, the recall, and poaslble
ptuze of the Commutcst Intelligence 'ap-
paratus which. .I Edga^ Hoover, FBI di-
rector,
has called the nsl.t numerous Rod
t~,idvspi cad in the wmr.4 s history. is a
back-handed tribite n- the West, which
J,a; I'toven that it. t:h, can play the
g i i 2 of penetrating
a pn;? ~h:e enem 1:' ; ea -m o' agents corps.
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