A LANDING IN THE JUNGLE OF ESPIONAGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400230006-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 2, 1973
• Content Type: NSPR

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When he worked as a space systems "Mr. James was dismissed by Pratt
analyst for Pratt & Whitney in the late &' Whitney Aircraft on Oct. 4, 1971, for
.1960s and early 1970s, Peter James violation of company rules and not - for
made Intelligence assessments of infer- ? any security reasons. ?Y
motion collected by the Foreign Technol. "Because a point-by-point rebuttal
ogy Division. Over the years he conciud- would require us to: divulge classified or
ed that many operations of the division proprietary information we cannot re-
were illegal. ?? spend to your other questions."
Attempts by The Post to obtaincom. Peter James, 33, was born and
meats from Pratt & Whitney resulted in grew up in Jamestown; N.Y. He gradu-
the company's allowing us .to -submit ated from college in. 1962, with a B. S.
written questions. A spokiisman repifed: degree In physics from Case Institute of
"In post years we have performed Technology, now Case Western Reserve
analytical work under contract. to the University, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Air Force Foreign Technology Division. V His wife Diane is a native of Cherry
But we know of no threats *r coercive Hill, N. J. -
actions against either the company or
Mr. Jaynes by anyone in tj. Air Force. - THE EDITORS
`- ' tcitmsvr.i N.J.me. On Aug. 2, 1971, in Bad Gander-
On a warm and windy evening on sheim, we decided to attend internation-
July 26, 1971, my wife Diane and I board- al scientific meetings in Yugoslavia,
ed a jet at New York for a European France, and Belgium. I needed more
adventure which would thrust as into the material for a book I was writing on
middle of an espionage jungle and a Soviet space and defense programs to
frightening international conspiracy. offset some of the division's fabrications
and recommendations, which if followed
Six hours and 45 minutes later the to the letter would drive the United
Sabena Boeing 747 cut through the thick States into bankruptcy. V
cloud layer over Europe and made a To ensure that I'abided by Defense Department security
genf.le early-morning landing in Brus- procedures, I visited Edward Kreuser with the U.S. embassy
s seW in Bern, Switzerland, on Aug. 5, to notify him that I planned to
attend international meetings which would be attended by
4rt' was the first leg of a two-month members of the eastern bloc.
trip which would end back in Brussels Kreuser told nu, I could fulfill my zaceurlty obllgatlonn by
amid swarms of U.S. military undercov- filling out a debriefing form with the Florida Research and
er agents at the Twenty-Second Interns- Development Center security department when I returned to
work
tional Astronautical Federation Con-
gress. The U.S. agents would be spying During August. we motored through the Swiss Alps, stopped
on Russian scientists at the Congress off in Paris and Venice to take- notes and photographs for
another book I had in mind, and proceeded south to Greece to
Palace here but, if my sources were visit my relatives and the Greex Isles of blikonos and Corfu.
%x'rrect, they had something planned for On Aug. 31. we boarded the Adjaria, a gleaming white
us tar. Russian cruise ship, in the Greek port of Piraeus and cruised
A few days later we bought a new the Adriatic Sea to the port of Gruz, just north of Dubrovnik,
Yugoslavia.
Volkswagen from the factory at Wolfs- On Sept. 5. we checked into the Excelsior. our favorite hotel
burg, near the East German border, and overlooking the Old Fortress of Dubrovnik and the Isle of Lok-
toured the Kiel Peninsula, Denmark and rum, where Richard Coeur de Lion shipwrecked during the 12th
Sweden before settling down in Bad Gan- Century on his way back to Britain from the Crusades.
dersheim, a quaint out-of-the-way village We changed into casual clothes and were strolling in the in northern Germany district of Dubrovnik, when suddenly a middle-aged
ermany surrounded by American seated in a cafe raised a camera to his face and took
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