SOVIET SPY RECRUITMENT EFFORTS IN U.S.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100030002-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 22, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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DATE October 22, 1986 5:00 P.M. CITY Washington, D.C.
SUBJECT Soviet Spy Recruitment Efforts in U.S.
DAN LEWIS: This [U.S.-Soviet] one-upmanship diplomacy
began with the arrest of a suspected Soviet spy in New York and
the subsequent arrest in Moscow of American journalist Nicholas
Daniloff. The arrested Soviet spy in New York was Gennady
Zakharov. Now, he and uther Soviets recruit spies all over our
country. And as Jim Clarke reports, Washington is high on the
list of Soviet targets for sources on the inside of government or
military operations.
JIM CLARKE: August 23rd, two months ago tomorrow. The
arrest of this man signals a sharp shift in U.S. policy, a
much-talked-about crackdown on Soviet spies operating here under
diplomatic cover begins. The accused, Gennady Zakharov, Soviet
physicist, employee of the United Nations, an international civil
servant. In fact, the FBI says, a lieutenant colonel in the KGB,
part of an aggressive Soviet campaign to invade American college
campuses, congressional office buildings, military installations
to recruit home-grown Soviet spies.
The Soviet hope: that the young recruits would later
land in jobs with access to secrets, like members of the John
Walker spy ring, and produce a massive hemorrhage of high-tech
secrets.
MARK ZIMMERMAN: This happened in April of 1983. 1 was
the legislative assistant for Congresswoman Snow. I was involved
in defense and foreign affairs work for her.
CLARKE: It was then a visiting Soviet agricultural
scientist, here under U.N. auspices, arranged a meeting with
Zimmerman, plied him with vodka, asked him to get a highly secret
document.
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