KGB RUNS FREE AT U.N.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201110041-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2010
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: September 1, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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AMERICAN LEGION
ARTICLE APPcARED September 1985
ON PAGE .[L_
DATELINE WASHINGTON
KGB Runs Free at O.N.
The recent flurry of espionage cases is giving impetus to
a congressional bill that would restrict the travel and
activities of U.N. Secretariat employees who have been
"seconded" to the United Nations.
Secretariat employees are, supposedly, international civil
servants, owing their primary loyalty to the United Nations,
not to their countries of origin. In reality, eastern bloc nations
will permit their citizens to work for the Secretariat only on
a temporary assignment, that is, they are "seconded" to the
United Nations and their loyalty stays with their country.
Although diplomats from the USSR and its satellites are
generally restricted in activities and travel in the United
States, the "seconded" employees have no such restraints,
and many of these are deeply engaged in spying operations,
according to former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick.
Some 800 Soviets are employed by the United Nations, with
200 suspected of being KGB agents.
Sen. William V. Roth Jr., has introduced a measure to
curtail the freedom of movement of this U.N. spy net as a
counter-measure to the increasing espionage in the United
States.
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