'SPY GROUP' IN VIENNA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R000400130001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 20, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 8, 1970
• Content Type: NSPR

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Moscow, Aug. 7.----A hunter
Cif Nazi:; waS accused in the
conlnlunist youth newspaper
Komsnenolskaya Pravda today
of heading an Israel spy centr,
and of concoeIing stories of
anti?Semitism in communist
countries. The paper was conl-
mcnting on the ,,'IiVitics of t.
Herr Simon Wiescnthal, llc:.d
of the Illain dor.llll ntat1on I
centre which scck to bring
former Nazi \var criminals to
justi: C.
It alleged) that. his orgg.aniza-
tion in Vienna was Subsidized
by the American Central Intelli-
gence Aaenev, the 13r1t1~'fa lllteI -
lI~e1l:.C Sel'\LC, tile l.4'Or;(t Zion-
is,, movement and the Israel
intelligence service Shin 13e1.
lierr \Viesenthal \\':", recently
reported to have obtained in-
formation about large- numbers
of former Nazis now li\ ing in
cost C;Crnlany.
The vlosco\t~ newspaper said
today that he and his organize-
Lion were busy searching for
Nazis who fled to Latin Ameri-
ca. and Africa while they dis-
played " strange. helplessness in
searching for such Nazis?who,
are openly living in Vienna
near Wiesenthal's office." They
were also active in distributing
an " utteriv {'else version " of
anti-Semitism in socialist states.
The arti:ic asserted that the
main documentation centre was
in Not an espionage centre of
Israel intalligen_e. It further
alleged that Herr \Vie_ientilal
headed :+ sp='clal group whiCll
interrogated people tr ~? :Gnu
from communist eou t! t~ .o
lsr:ael. L nd used the- info..r::aior
obtaic. c,! 'as subversive i> ep : -
agancla against the Soviet Union
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arid other cast ELI[ 11 caCOUP
tries.
This org.tnization, named a,
Palestine-Amt, had direct con-
tacts with intelligence agents
working at the Israel Embassy
in Vienna under cover of Ciiplor
matic passports, Kemsonlols-
kaya Pravda added.- ICeuter.
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