[THE SOVIETS HAVE PRIVATELY THREATENED TO PUBLISH ALLEGED PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE OF U.S. WIRETAPS PLANTED IN THEIR WASHINGTON EMBASSY AND SAN FRANCISCO CONSULATE]

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000600070034-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: July 13, 1978
• Content Type: PREL

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I TELLIGEWCE AGENTS U ETAFFELt .. :~=?SIAFe..i't.ISSIO_iS .I.N.. THE U.?. s
d tERICA ~ BROADCASTING COMPANY (ABC) NEWS REPORTED TODAY.
ABCs IN ITS EVENING NEWS REPORTS SAID PHOTOGRAPHS OF
HIRETAPS ALLEGEDLY FOUND IN THE SOVIET EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON
AND IN THE SOVIET CONSULATE IN SAN FRANCISCO WERE GIVEN TO THE
STATE DEPARTMENT BY SOVIET OFFICIALS LAST MONTH.'
ABC ALSO SAID THAT PHOTOGRAPHS OF TWO ALLEGED AMERICAN
INTELLIGENCE AGENTS WERE HANDED OVER TO THE STATE DEr ARTMErs T s
WITH THE WARNING THAT THEY WOULD BE EXPOSED AS EEING CAUGHT
RED-HANDED IN THE SOVIET UNION.
ONES 1ARTHA PETERSOHs WAS IDENTIFIED BY MOSCOW ON JUNE 13
AS # E_ N+~ CAUGH i SP'1` I Nr,... f`EAR EARLIER.
Toe OTHER AMERRICANs ATTACHED TO. THE U.S.. . E tsA5.5Y IN MOSCOW$
AND HIS WIFE WERE SEIZED BY SOVIET POLICE LAST SEPTEH$ERs ABC
REPORTED.
IDEN { IF IED AS VINCENT
CROCRETTS AND SAID TO SERVE Al AN
ARCHI V IS i s HE WAS REPORTEDLY PULLED FROM HIS CAR AND BEATEN
AFTER HE WAS CAUGHT ALLEGEDLY CONTACTING A SOVIET COLLABORATOR.
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HE WAS FORCED TO LEAVE MOSCOW.
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