SOVIET SECRET POLICE BOAST OF OUTWITTING U. S. IN SPYING CASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600330009-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: December 19, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2001/07/27 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000600330009-4
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Soviet Secret Police
Boast of Outwitting
11. S. in Spying Case
CPY GHT By 'ANATOLE. SHUB
MOSCOW, Dec. 1$.-The Soviet security police force,
celebrating its 50th anniversary this week, introduced Brit-i
ish defector Harold Adrian (King) Philby to Russian readers
(Monday night in a five-col- t~
umn interview produced fori '1 1 NEW FACTS
the Government newspaper
Izvestia.
Philby described proudly how
the had outwitted Western in-
(telligence agencies during the
11940s and publicized his recent-
illy completed book of -memoirs
little to what had been disclosed
in British publications about the
double agent's activities and
was curiously reticement on
several points.
For example, Philby de-
scribed a talk he had in 1951 in
Washington with Allen Dulles,
without success,- to place inrFrank Wisner and Frank Land-
British and American newspa-say of the CIA about organizing
pers. n anti-CmWVMist revolt in
16,n. of +he Socialist count ies i"
V
former, American military at- was revealed earlier this year,
taches here of espionage in the to have been directed at Al
Ukraine in 1966 - accusations bania. Why the KGB preferred
(which the U. S. Embassy~to avoid mentioning its role in!
called "fabricgtlons .with-Isaving the Albanian regime ofd
out foundation. Other mediaEnver Hoxha was not known. "
,,have been ., publicizing the
secret police, for. several days{
in "a n obvious buildup for,
its anniversary celebrations Wednesday.
The organization, known since'
1954 as the Committee on State.
Security (KGB), is currentlyi
headed y Yuri P, Andropov. It:
was founded six weeks after the'"
Communist seizure of power as!
the CHEKA, or Extraordinary
Commission Against Sabotage?;
and Speculation,
Its leaders over the. years
.have included Henryk Yagoda,;;
.Nikolai Yezhov and Lavrentii
Beria-all of whom died violent'
deaths here - and Alexanderji
Shelepin, a memberof the pres-
lent Politboro whose current in-,
fluence is believed attested to
by the magnitude of the pub-y
licity now being given one of thei'
Mess beloved Soviet organiza-i+
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