SECRET SOVIET PACT WITH U.S. ON EMBASSY RADIATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88B01125R000300120080-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2012
• Sequence Number: 80
• Publication Date: March 9, 1976
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/05/10: CIA-RDP88B01125R000300120080-3
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cause serious health 1>rob:c:ns.
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American electronic spying.
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HE United States Government is reported
to have niacle a secret pact with Russia
to remove some of the electronic intclligence-
gathering equipment from the roof of the
American Embassy in Moscow, in return for
a 'reduction in :the Russians' microwave
radiation bombard were exposed to in? lloscow .:nd
. ment.- of the building. I what risks they urd::: wtint.
Tim Washington i'o. . trllicl:
Tire Russians beban direct- has interviewed a g:oup of
i!1' microwaves at. the diplomats and their fslllili:`~,
o quted t ne Anlcri:an ef(iual as
Embassy in the early 1JGOs sa.oing: "If I'ou :(s!: :1: tills is
as a counter-measure against an isstte that + .:e ought to
tae-eaten to hee'l. re".ttiala o~c:.
The Evans and Nova;:
spndicated ucws service in
America repartcd yesterday
that so:M a electronic equip-
ment oil. the Embassy roof
used to penetrate confidential
Soviet coniniunications had
now been removed 'and in
return Russiar. radiation had
been reduced.
The ? microwave :radiation
remains 'well above' danger
levels, however, and has led to
repeated. - cnnlplairts . that
Enlbass.? staff, including the
Anlbassdo:. Mr Walter Stoessel.
leave beca p'u'sicaily a;fccted.
A Itttmber? of " allgry seluor
diplomats who have served in
liussia we c reported >'cstcrda,~
to be considering (IClll'JC(lllla. a
full ex?l.:n::ti',n from the Stale
Department abuut just what tlhey
Cancer r.te
According to one rc;?ort ci:?
culatin among wives, a nurse ?
who served in the NloscOWv
Embassy bas taken an irfornhi
tally that suggWSts an abaorm-
aItr high rate of ca:tccr ? amOr
the diplolllal's '.*"Cotnn.
Last week the State Depa rt?
lncnt ? sent a doctor . to the
En:bassv in itIoscat: to try' to
determine if Iwo case s of .i
lymphatic cancer ann one of
to
anaelni:co:ld be attributed
'tile r.:dialinn.
Mlr Stoc?cl is rer?(,rtcd t' he
suI1cl'ilt'z, from pll.tr-ntia. State
Department of,ici:%!c sat t
made setvcral url~a!>:it is trips
to :\muerica for treatnment du;-
inS taepast year.
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/05/10: CIA-RDP88BO1125R000300120080-3