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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700210026-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2005
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: August 5, 1963
• Content Type: PREL

Approved For Release 2005/01/04: CIA-RDP75-001
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UNITED PRESS 5 AUGUST 1963
INTERNATIONAL
(SPY)
MADISON, WIS.--UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PROF. J. THOMAS SHAW, RECENTLY ACCUSED
BY THE RUSSIANS AS A SPY RECRUITER, HAS CALLED THE ACCUSTATION "A LOT OF NONSENSE."
SHAW, WHO HEADS THE UNIVERSITY'S DEPARTMENT OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES, WAS ACCUSED
THURSDAY BY IZVESTIA, THE OFFICIAL SOVIET NEWSPAPER, OF TRYING TO GET YOUNG
RUSSIANS TO SPY FOR THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE SERVICE.
IN 1958,, SHAW WAS ORDERED OUT OF RUSSIA ON CHARGES OF TAKING PICTURES OF
DEFENSE OBJECTS. HE WAS REFUSED A SOVIET VISA WHEN HE APPLIED DURING THE PAST TWO
YEARS, HE SAID.
SHAW SAID YESTERDAY HE HAD BEEN DOING RESEARCH IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE OF THE
EARLY 19TH CENTURY, CONCENTRATING ON THE RUSSIAN POET ALEXANDER PUSHKIN.
"I WAS IN THE SOVIET UNION IN 1958 AS ONE OF 20 AMERICAN DELEGATES TO THE FOURTH
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF SLAVISTS (SPECIALISTS IN SLAVIC LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE),"
HE SAID.
HE SAID THAT WHILE IN MOSCOW HE ATTEMPTED TO RECONSTRUCT THE ENVIRONMENT IN
WHICH PUSHKIN LIVED.
"I TOOK PICTURES OF HOUSES AND NEIGHBORHOODS IN WHICH PUSHKIN LIVED AS WELL
AS THE USUAL TOURIST ATTRACTIONS," HE SAID.
"BECOMING THE OBJECT OF SUCH A RIDICULOUS CHARGE IS, I SUPPOSE, ONE OF THE
OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS OF BEING IN MY PROFESSION OF RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE,
HE SAID.
8/5--TD108PED
Approved For Release 2005/01/04: CIA-RDP75-00149R000700210026-7