SOVIETS LIST AMERICANS AS 'SPIES'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200680001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 5, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Soviet newspaper today cited
an American business woman,
7 a theatrical agent and four
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translators as "provocateurs"
who tried to recruit spies and
defectors among Soviet. citi-
zens.
The official newspaper iden-
tified the six as:
? Oscar Berlin, a "former
administrator" of Sol IIurok
Attractions, which sponsors
many Soviet musicians, dan-
cers and .!actors appearing
abroad.
? Dianna Hayes, who alle-
gedly presented herself here
as the owner of the '"Anchor
Industrial Co."
Later, it said, she came t
Russia and attempted to "giv
Soviet people an applicatlo
form for the FBI." It did no
explain why the FBI, officiall
an internal security fore
should want agents in the S
vict Union.
Lukyanov, it said, mixc
with Soviet tourists, artist
Tying to seduce them with
.the American way of life."
[In Washington, the State
'Department said it had no com-
ment on the charges. Officials
said Lukyanov' is not listed on
their rolls.
[In New York, Berlin said he
was a traffic. manager with Hu-
rok during the tours of the two
Soviet groups, but that the ac-
cusation was ".'completely ridic?
ulous."
[A spokesman for Anchor 'In-,
Co. said in New York:
his firm has no officer or em-:
ploye named Diana Hayes.]
? Viktor A. Fedyal, a trans
lator at the Library of Con-I
gress who allegedly acted as a,
courier for military intel-;
ligence given him by a milt-'
tary attache at the U.S. Em-1
.bassy here,
Izvestia said it was printing
the article in response to a
new probe of Soviet Intel-
ligence by the U.S. House
Committee on Un-American
Activities.
It said Berlin tried to re-
,cruit members of the Lenin-
grad Opera Ballet Theater in
1961 and of the Ukrainina
Dance Ensemble in 1962, when
the 'two groups -visited the
United States.
Izvestia said, Miss Hayes
tried to pass secret drawings,
of new U.S. aircraft , to? Soviet
citizens, but said she did, this
on the approval of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation:.
? Vasili V. Lukyanov, a
Russian'-born translator for
:., the U.S. State Department.
? Alexander I. Rolich, an-
other Russian-born translator
who allegedly said he was an
assistant languages professor
at the University of Wiscon-
sin.
? Mikhail M. Bon, a transla-
tor for the American Express,
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