HOW RUSSIA'S MOLES USE THE UN

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• Publication Date: October 19, 1980
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19 OCTOBER 1980
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Scientific and Cultural turn,. that. it is being largely
Organisation of the United. firnanced by - the Western a cafe, Au rendez-vouo des compatriots. -This flies;in the
Nations (Unesco for short) 1, taxpayer- `;, ? arms," in the Place Gambetta face of standard UN- recruit-
is meeting in plenary sea-'.:._T'n extent of?th-e KGB (a -few -minutes before, merit policy- _wlrereby_-any.
- sup enetration of Unesco, which French security officials had vacant post should.be, open
lion in Belgrade p
lposedl devotin - itself maintains a vast inter- Followed him into a-.public to candidates. of-any'nation-,
y g national staff : some. 3,500 urinal nearby, only.to: dis-. ality; :but, over ~ the;;;years,
solely to promoting colla strong,: was highlighted by cover that their quarry was the.--world. '.body his;:,}ust
boration among nations ::: , the ' trial - in Paris last-May, merely satisfying the urge of wearily accepted this
in order to farther univer-~ of the :70-year-aid Charles nature); :. and the agent anomaly by~whi'ch a y'.Soviet
sal?'respect' for-" justice, for~ Pathe.- (son. of the pioneer seized . with ? --him' Igor : posting becomes a=.Soviet
preserve.
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_. human. rights - and.-funda- rohiarges. dissemutating a Second Secretary.in The 13 intelligence.agents '
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ever. hard the majority of' money over a , penau, or zu
its 144 members may strive years :.The trial,: on :this
rare.and controversial charge
o live up, to these provis ended with .a conviction and
ions of the 1945 Charter a- five-year prison sentence
there is one group of signa-, from, a French:court which
tones the:East European showed'that; among the Nato
bloc,,: headed by the ,Soviet powers, France,. at any rate,
-Unioh=which' tramples,'-on had. fully., :voken up to the
they'Charter- r and ., treats -dangers posed by Moscow's
elaborate and ' long--standing
Unesco,.ai,ce ;; other UN campaign to malnipulate
.agencies; primarily as a Western: public .opinion. But
:platfor?rrr.. for :.;intellience equally significant about the
operations Pathe case was the way it
It is estimated that 23 out had been run from the Soviet
Cf the 72 Soviet officials who end: - He had finally been
work permanently in Unesco arrested after Jong 'surveil-
are' ftrl'1-time officials of -the! lance while in the- act of
KGB or. its military intelli- handing over his material at
This proportion of about one '
in three is -- matched in
the :various UN agencies
based' in Geneva,- where no
fewer than 133 of the 419
Soviet permanent staff 'are
thought - .to be - intelligence.
officers. Even the so-called
straightforward ? officials are
,all co-opted in,.-some way or,
another. to help in-the- busi-
ness . of .intelligence - gather- ,
irrg- and -the recr_ uitment. of
likely : contacts. ..- They : are
indeed-:told '..quite' firmly on
arrival that: - their' perform-
ance'-will - be -_ : judged in
Moscow an their. .work for
.the,.-Soviet Mission . in these
'respects and that their. duties;
as UN officials - are. of rela- Unesco's building in Paris: a
tively minor importance. The fruitful-field for the KGB.
subject--- of -loyalty.. to- -the "
United Nations is not even
?I
raised, except to beis' shot
down..' And the irony that
this; army of spies is paid
for,' largely out ; of the
agendas' bu~dgets (some #50 . ~
year the
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Kuvwasby no means meludes, of'course;_the; dele
the first Soviet" case officer"' ' the. Ukra ine) -include some
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pu
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from Unesco's plu&h head-
quarters in the Place de
Fontenoy. He had first been
spotted as. a likely recruit
22 years before by Viktor
_Mikheyev, a KGB ;officer
Posing as head of the Trans-
lation Section: of Unesco's
Secretariat. After a spell
under _ Eduard Yakovlev of
the Soviet delegation, he was
then "handled" for 10 years
by a succession of three KGB
officers working out of the
Soviet Embassy (which is in.
charge of the entire intelli-
gence operation in France)
before reverting to Unesco
control.-again with the luck-'
less;. ---Kuznetsov, - who : was
expelled after claiming din--
interesting. specimens... One,
Nikbla'i.. Vasilievitch
chenko, is himself ,a'Ukrain-
ia-n with the prime -bask 'of
penetrating the., Ukrai'nia'n
emigre community"in Paris.
Another and far more senior
main is ? Vitali: Sergeivich
Yudenko,? who has the- rack
of. Counsellor and iti ho,' do a
previous incarnation; oper-.
ated for ' seven . years . from
the cover' ' -of : the Soviet
Embassy. Another, ; Alexei
Nikolaivich.'Kovalski '.is the
son*.in-law of the head.'of the
whole KGB "Residentura ".in
that embassy, Nikolai Tchet-
verikov..This happy fag
ties." . link . is, repeated 'with
the 'Head of'.the=Soviet dele-,
lomatic immunity. gation to Unesco, Alexander
The ?Pathe'case illustrated S e -la Piradov, whose
the problem facing any host fa-thether-inn law.-is:-the Foreign
h r, Andre Gelf is - ,
o
country; to a UN agency in, thoug a
this matter. The Soviet though Piradov: himself is
this
.- like "every-- other' regular,, diplomat: (To . be
made head
UN
United Nations member, has ee Sto, ' b- e y
its optimum quota-of _postg- celegatiob ;seems to,
within . the . system, ..and. those -.withr powerful aprotec
nominates ' whom it. chooses.' tors in Nloscow.. In Geneva,
Moreover, after-it has filled for example, -the 67 yearold
a slot once, it makes sure of Maclaine Miranova has hung
that same slot for good 'by on to her coveted post as
insisting that its nationals, Mission chief for ' 14 oears,
are replaced by their awn . and' is said to owe this, like
_ _ . her roi linappoimtmenther , d the
fact that younger days,
she.was a-close friend:of.the
Soviet ; Prime--'-Minister, Mr
{ Kosygia. `"She bad -'nothing
1 directly-todo with tile' KGB;
- her services to the state'were
of a diffesent'krad.):7~::-
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^ this. First, it helps them to the Soviet -Union pressured
The most flagrant. Soviet get their own nominees into UN General Secretary , Kurt
abuse of the United Nations' the posts which. best serve Waldheim (despite strong
network for intelligence pur- Soviet 'interests.. Second, it. Western protests) to appoint
1poses lies in the plantiri:g of offers the chance to offer pro- a known KGB man, Geli
KGB . operatives 'inn the m'0t prospects as a bribe Dneprovski, as Head of Per,
various international sews- for?support. Third and most cannel in Geneva. That was
tariats themselves. For this ipo'rt it-,gives their 18.-months ago and,. in; the
reason, the fact-''that, in operatives access- to the con-- intervening time, Dneprovski,
Unesco, for- example, _ 10 of fidential files on all UN per---while discharging his duties
!the,.-45 Soviet-Secretariat sonnet,- revealing -any week-.conscientiously enough on
members are full-time agents -nesses.. which.:: might- be '.the surface, has nonetheless
represents the' greatest out. exploited. This is particularly _manraged? to pack into his
rage.. .:These people are, sup- - uahle as: regards the woo--department .'.three- more
`o x _ _._Y _.__ _ ifst and rerreritm.en.t of svm= Soviet ofcial4` and one Bul-
pose
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civi
servan1t3; %Yuu have ,sur- .?_""_"_ - '---- "-- ?--- --- ---- --- - --- for
rendered all allegiances and ,"-a--prime!.target of all KGB comrade, Valentin Prahov, hard , currency income fobligations to their. respective operations:in th'er-'UN,.send who is Deputy: Head of Moscow. Some of the lower-
Paid Soviet secretaries have
General Services 'al Geneva
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countnes-..having indeed all un
. signed a formal pledge to ~'As-_. -diplomat is "responsible for ' (of all become so incensed with this
that effect.. There .'is. little , serveswith the UN today can -thin's)~secunty at the Palais system (unique in the UN) i
become Foreign Minister- of des tatians ; that they ask for their over-,
doubt that -the- Director -of his country tamorrOVr time money in. cash to keep
Planning in Unes+co's~ Secre- Perh-ags the most striking
it out of the clutches of their
`ariat, Kamor Klyriutchnikov, --` Moscow's greates4 success, proof, of .the Soviet Union's it out accountaut.ec- ? ?r e
igned that'pled;ge'w*ith his in'this staff-field was. When contemptuous exploitation of
! - It is a pity''one feels, that
tonheis knou y ee
wn a a vt ankKGB such resistance to Russia's ; for officer.. Other... intelligence cynical exploitation of the
colleagues of his planted in U.N. does 'not extend higher
the Paris Secretariat include up-and outside the harassed
two editors, Alexyvich Pavlov ranks of Soviet Missions,
and- Viktor Golyachkov and two interpreters; ? Yuri
Ivanovich Kritsov and Arkadi
Anfilofiev.'
The Secretariat jobs which
the KGB makes a special bee-
line for a're those which deal
with personnel:' There are at
least three good reasons for
the UN is how it controls the
UN salaries of its officials. At
Geneva, for example, all
Soviet officials are forced to
hand over some two-thirds of f
the salary they draw each
month in Swiss francs to the
accountant at the Soviet
Mission. They are then " re-
imbursed " (either in roubles at home or. in local perks) i
according to. the rank they
not the ,UN job for which
they are appointed and paid.
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