SOVIETS REGULARLY FOIL U.S. SECURITY EFFORTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000302310029-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 12, 2012
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: April 8, 1987
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON TIMES
8 April 1987
Soviets regularly foil U.S. security efforts
rBy Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The recent sex-for-secrets spy
scandal at the U.S. Embassy in Mos-
cow is only one of several major se-
curity breaches the United States
has suffered in the Soviet Union, in-
telligence officials said yesterday.
Since the 1950s, the internal secu-
rity section of the KGB intelligence
service has bugged embassies,
opened sealed diplomatic pouches,
bombarded diplomats with micro-
waves and used lethal dust to track
foreigners, the officials said.
As new revelations surface in the
damaging scandal, administration
officials are grappling with what to
do with the new U.S. Embassy in
Moscow. The building, which has
been under construction since 1980,
is widely believed to be filled with
KGB-planted listening devices that
have rendered the structure virtu-
ally useless.
Ilya Dzirkvilov, a Soviet defector
who worked in the internal security
branch of the KGB, told Western se-
curity officials that for decades
KGB agents routinely made covert
entries into foreign embassies to
gather intelligence information.
lb keep track of foreigners in
Moscow, the KGB devotes enormous
resources, the officials said. One
common ploy is using KGB-trained
female "swallows" and male "ra-
vens" who attempt to seduce for-
eigners and then blackmail them
into spying.
"They [the KGB] have thousands
of people and that's all they do, day
and night, is follow people around
Moscow," said one U.S. official.
At the U.S. Embassy in Moscow,
both Marine Sgt. Clayton Lonetree
and Cpl. Arnold Bracy were lured
into romantic relations with Soviet
women in what officials now call a
"classic honey trap" KGB operation.
The two Marines are suspected of
aiding KGB efforts to plant hun-
dreds of high-tech electronic listen-
ing devices in secure areas of the
embassy.
Other past security failures in-
clude:
? In 1951, a hidden KGB listening
device was discovered inside a
United States seal fastened to the
U.S. ambassador's desk.
? State Department officials re-
vealed in 1964 that more than 40 lis-
tening devices were discovered in-
side embassy walls before the
building was turned over to the
United States in 1953.
? In 1975, harmful levels of micro-
wave transmissions were beamed
into the U.S. Embassy by the KGB,
forcing the embassy to install spe-
cial screens to protect workers.
? A 1977 fire in the upper floors of
the embassy allowed KGB agents ?
accompanying several hundred
Moscow firefighters ? to gain
access to the communications
equipment sources said. The next
day, a diplomatic pouch containing
new communications gear sent to
Moscow from West Germany was in-
tercepted by the KGB and was be-
lieved compromised, the sources
said.
? In 1978, U.S. officials discovered
attempts by the KGB to bug type-
writers, but thwarted the effort.
? The Senate Intelligence Commit-
ee revealed U.S. typewriters were
bugged sometime in the early 1980s.
Sources said the KGB intercepted
the machines before they were deliv-
ered and implanted special elec-
tronic devices.
? Also in 1978, intelligence,.
sources said a radio transmitter was
found inside an embass chimne
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that connected the embassy with a
Soviet arcalt used by the KG1,1,
e tunne was later blocked.
? In August 1985, the State De-
partment revealed that the KGB
used a carcenogenic tracking pow-
der to trace the movements of U.S.
diplomats.
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