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

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CIA-RDP81M00980R000600030023-8
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May 18, 2004
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October 26, 1978
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HOUSTON POST Approved For Release 2004/05PZ1 OD A RDF M0098OR000600030023-8 _M,~ . , ir- 's. / - D ff Your cover i- s. ', v_1 yes been 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 n snort nm of problems. It ?hgence official. > ranch detained btiagsov for appeared i s IS a1%:1t l,y Jicvcl -_ ~.. 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 not from each other. P hi ` ~, o d -c h p th dea admit a uses b ? "` e to Gen CLk official to Paris, his identity will be arrival, likes 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 e tt s made known ne~_ 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 oat k th t ' ' e o roc t like .er.. - -? ;-.,, ;; -': . back over the borc the embarrassment of having the. left wino: ment doesn which knows rfectly well that :? . ` FBI 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 11u~>.~...-. 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. i It has a pretty shrewd idea who the. ntenigence Another problem is international organza- = tes refuse to A recent defector to the British -- Viad1 en- d St l) A i m a te Can the Un tiors - IOs. officers are, and besides; It UV ats a el - a KGB office posted to . Mir Rey n, . dentified aO.J CB and CR _t i p or e 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 hil e a m rnese out weeks w 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 i 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 ' 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 ', 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 h ----- - --- __1 -- ---- 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 A_ ""?,'?1'ti e-toiteither_- - _ ....- _e-_.-,..,.>a~--.nlnvtv::.. vote e s e .N. >. ? a ThaU we neeceu u1 Agents and defectors -Identify,tlunnreees--ol . Lc therefore came the Swiss requested tne:Intern- t h en nations reques prise w - 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 b~o ycentinue._..:- Gregor; t. -of one ill o . . KGB w being posted to their countries, and the "terminate the. contrac ?' _ .- . - . _ _ .:. _ . F-pd `firailwaS' e ,P= art." in the , ...~ . kov an alle Mi o a , , . .. United States obli ges. g 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. h border for an but- maM from soverrmant sarvic> in 19M F renc ived at the turn down a propos Soviet posting just be ets.arr Approved For Release 2004/05/21 : CIA-RDP81 M00980R000600030023-8 Approved For Release 2004/05/21 : CIA-RDP81 M00980R00060 (III F CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Office of Legislative Counsel Washington, D. C. 20505 Telephone. 351-6121 (Code 143-6121) 8 November 1978 0: Ms. Beverley Lumpkin Subcommittee on International Organizations O~m,~r