I WAS IVAN IN CIA SAYS A JOHN SMITH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700290022-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2005
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: October 25, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Moscow, Oct. 24 (UPI)-A man who identified himself
"the embhssy 'of a certain devel-
oping country" (which, was
oriented toward the Soviet bloc),
acted as CIA liaison man with
Indian .. agents, :ana- collected
as John Smith a former Central Intelli ence Agenc aMent,
sai in an arise published in a ovie newspaper o ay
that he defected to-the Soviet Union because the. United .
States was preparing "a new world 'catastrophe."
A United States Embassy diplomatic staff in India. He
spokesman, asked to comment, boasted, he had been a "good as-
said:.. sistapt',, to the CIA chiefs in
"I n?ver heard of this, John India; ,'including his "own. 'wife,'
Smith. The only, John Smith I bl'ary London Smith.
know. of was subverted by Poca- Smith '.,said he was now a So
hontas." ! viet " cjiizen living and working
W it, g in the the Literary ini Mosegw. He did not say where
Gaxotto 'Smith said he spied for his Svii'sl' was.
the k while serving on the a Sriyjl# !said he helped py oni
information. He said high-rank-
ing Indian military officers were
.on the CIA payroll and that the
CIA' tapped the telephones of
some of, the leaders.
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