HIS GREATEST SERVICE PENKOVSKY UNMASKED 3 SOVIET SPIES IN WEST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800040003-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 18, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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3 Soviet. SIMeS in West
By Don Cook
Lon Anselcs Timee
PARIS, Nov. 17-Whatever the value of the spy'
papers of Col. Oleg Penkovsky, or even their validity,,
which is being questioned by some experts on Soviet,
,affairs, his greatest service to the West was the un-
(masking of key Russian agents in Paris, London and
Stockholm.
The three most important
espionage cases in the West in
the last five years were all
broken by counterintelligence
services on the basis of infor-
mation passed to Britain and
the United States by Penkov-
sky. The cases involved:
Georges Paques, a senior
French civil servant who
spied fq. the Russians in the
\linistry of Nationsi Defense
anti later in NATO headquar-
ters in Paris. He was caught
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