DONALD MORRIS/AN ANALYSIS YOUR COVER IS SHOWING; DOES IT MATTER?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000600030023-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: October 26, 1978
• Content Type: NSPR

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lag at Chamonix: In what should have a
The use of official- cover for intelligence cause the man has been identified as an intel- routine. crossing, a hitch appeared -- the
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snort nm of problems. It ?hgence official. > ranch detained btiagsov for appeared
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these se days - from the press, perhaps, but Ln America, neither the -- w c. o ~ to leave him behind, and four h a1-s'
lies the bulk of the identifications, nor the o
e with t eta after their later all 8d were still wai ing in their b~sei
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p eva, and J. n to the French service. The KGB officers. But neither the 'CM nor th - to Genland and France
had arrived to tip
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made known
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agkov. The French finally r
major reason he does not have a "CIA" sign FBI controls approval of such postings the spring i
on his door is to save the French governr.ent State Department does; and the State Depart- him loose the next morr n but booted his
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the embarrassment of having the. left wino: ment doesn
which knows rfectly well that :? . `
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Outs accu?>e the. Ins of knowingly peKrnittm (The
, a foreign intelligence omcial entzy. 50 percent of all Soviets are intelligence, of fl- Miagkov has been implicated in a nu?~.be
+,i- cnminrt in the fact that adroit- of major French esnionsge c3ez,'.-'re ' z
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if a L.1../r on 1J Vw11- '^' --?-?? we UII,`~' a3 hLLUWJI da
naturally do not ot tell the KGB: But i;;e'.1:GB trouble of having to identify h m.) missiles:andira rco ouw s_..ry ,},jA.
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has a pretty shrewd idea who the. ntenigence Another problem is international organza- =
tes refuse to A recent defector to the British -- Viad1
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officers are, and besides; It UV ats a
el - a KGB office posted to . Mir Rey n, . dentified aO.J CB and CR
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cans as if they were adm
t - The KGB, of course, saes not teTaapone the U:N.? In practice ,`it l ls'decided'it'cart, officers on Swiss soil; th? 1 CB Peden
they have b en active against American tar Dmitri Prorslri, has been back in Mosco' {;
ajor shakeup is under z
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wholthe KGB and GRU officials ir?their in- gets - it recently kicked a Vietnn 1: ; -nn _ ., 11 man>ar ! f SfIV2P-C 4ersplL~?1 CJ~3 x
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slots a- we et bloc uiteii -:til? tau na- - The Swiss have worms problems; ere vase . The Soviets pig-o;r cl one,C Daearc
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lions, however, are quite who trey .... majority of the Soviet-intelli;erce:cffieez or; as i~- head c[ e1s UN.. Personnel Cifce in G=
are. Swiss soil are attach ed.,to, Ids- which the-?rrva. ea was firmly identified as a senior
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Soviet intelligence officials are, rzI tip ellY KGB regards as a heaven sent cover c?evic?;., -officer during a U.N. tour in New York.
rig not mamtat,~t
KGB officers
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watchers. By the time
ished at least one tour abroad, the majority would veto that idea), and 10 officio need .stalling for weeks; they issued Or-, t`lus
w;,ll have been identified, either by patient not know anything about their nominal cover ins the KGB access to theudrsoeL.el f~'ce
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Agents and defectors -Identify,tlunnreees--ol . Lc therefore came
the Swiss requested tne:Intern-
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- others. Almost all Western tins for
traces from the United States on Soviets tional Labor Organization.. in Geneva to. The halcyon days of IO' post a
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The point is that very few. countries - the training department. vonaid rAorris served with t'e CIA >. Y~m H.
United States included -= will automatically' I n June, two busloads'of. Swiss-based Sovi- b a columnist for She youston Port sines his W.
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Legislative Counsel
Washington, D. C. 20505
Telephone. [phone] (Code 143-6121)
8 November 1978
0: Ms. Beverley Lumpkin
Subcommittee on International
Organizations
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