PENKOVSKY'S SPY-CATCHING ROLE DENIED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800040002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 21, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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'~' Penkuvsky's Spy-Catc~iing bole Denied
kovsky supplied materials that is writing his memoirs.
~ (ed to the detection and ar- Penkovsky Protest
'rest of the Swedish master In another development,
spy, Col. Stig Wennerstrom,
~ are flatly denied by sources
`close to the case. ~-
;. Wennerstrom r e p o r t e d l y
rfirst came under suspicion in
j 1959-two years .before Pen-
kovsky started assisting the
,West.
~ 1~he Swedish officer had'
f served as air attache in Mos?
scow and Washington before
..returning to the Defense Min-
I istry and Foreign Ministry in
Stockholm. ?
Arrested in June, 19G3, he
.was sentenced last year to
life imprisonment. He could
be released after 10 years and
closed yesterday that it ]t~s
received. 8 protest from the
Soviet Union about publica-
tion of papers attributed- to
Penkovsky. He became a spy
for the West in 1961 and was
later caught and executed.
The Penkovsky papers were.
serialized in newspapers, in-
- ?~'~ne The lR'ashrnQt.nn ^?~~'
and are now out in book)
form:
A State Department spokes-
man said that Soviet Ambas-
sador Anat.oly F. Dobrynin
expressed "concern" last Mon-
day in a talk with 1?11SSIa~1
affairs.. expert. Llewellyn E.
Later, the spokesman said,
Thompson replied that the
Government "had no ?respon-
sibility in the matter."
IA "Concoction"
In the first report on the
Penkovsky papen5 in the Rus-
sian press, the Communist
Party newspaper Pravda re-
ferred to them yesterday as
"another ,anti-Soviet concoc-
tion of the American. Central
Intelligence Agency and ap-
parently of its British asso-
ciates."
While not further explain-
ing what was ,in the papers,
Pravda said that "this fabri-
cation does -not deser4e anal-
ysis."
A Moscow dispatch from
The Washington Past's Ste-
phen Rosenfeld said the bulk
unflattering reflections on ~
the character of Greville
Wynne, the British business>-
man convicte~-t with Penkov-
sky-and later exchanged for,.
"Crordon Lonsdale," a Soviet f
spy caught in England. ? ~'
Last week, a news story
from Paris linked the work '''f i
Penkovsky wil.h the uncover- t
ing of three 'Westerners spy-'
ing for the Soviet Union.l
These were li:-led as: ~
~ennerstrotu; George Pa-'
ques, a senior French civil t
servant who worked in NATO, ~
nd William .1. C. Vassall, a F
British. Admiralty clerk. Oth- j
er sources have denied that
information furnished by Pen- !
kovs~ty -led to apprehension of
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