SPIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00901R000600430006-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2006
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: December 4, 1983
• Content Type: TRANS

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4701 WILLARD AVENUE, CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND 20815 656-4068
December 4, 1983 7:00 P.M.
SUBJECT Spies
STATION WRC-TV
AIRr nlo+ wr t,
LLOYD DOBYNS: Our story is about spies, and the
location is here in Vienna.
There are a.-lot of spies in Vienna,, ours and theirs.
This story is about one of ours pretending to be one of theirs.
His.name was Nicholas Shadrin. He defected from the Soviet Union
in 1959 and disappeared from.Vienna in 1975. The question is:
Was he kidnapped by the KGB, or did the CIA give him to them? We
don't have the answer, but looking for it has made a fascinating
story.
We know that story ended on Demceber 20th, 1975 in
Vienna. A naturalized American citizen was missing, and no one
seemed to want to find him.
In 1959 Nicholas Shadrin, the youngest destroyer
commander in the Soviet Navy, defected. He and Eva Gora (?)
crossed the Baltic from Poland to Sweden in an open boat, an
amazing bit of seamanship by Shadrin and a dreadful political
embarrassment for the Soviets.
They stayed briefly in Sweden. Mrs. Shadrin remembers
that when they decided to come to the United States, a Swedish
Navy commander warned them that the Americans were as callous as
the Soviets and would use and abandon Nick.
Their first stop in the United States was-a CIA safe-
house on Maryland's Eastern Short. Nick Shadrin became friendly
with the man who ran it, Pete Stvess (?).
,MORI/CDF,
OFFICES IN! WASHINGTON D.C. ? NEW YORK ? LOS ANGELES ? CHICAGO ? DETROIT I ANN OTHER PRINCIPAL CITIES
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