SHIELD DIPLOMAT-TURNCOAT WHO SPIED FOR THE SOVIET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300140090-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 90
• Publication Date: March 11, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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MAR I 1964
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Copyright 1964, N.Y. Journal-American
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This blockbuster was the exposure of a KGB
gent in our Warsaw Embassy who hadn't been
3uched by the _ earlier scandals. He was a lifetime
i n American diplomat, caught with irrefutabl
evidence that he had been a Soviet spy for 1E years, FUG YHROUGH I,k ZI ER
was allowed to r ^:n and disappear in 1961 for fear -
his prosecution would trigger a major State Dept. He was recalled to Washington instantly. He
scandal. as put through the wringer by the CIA and FBI.
That's one of the biggest time-bombs under the was subjected to lie-detector tests.
hushed-up case of Soviet Secret Police defector, ; Evidence of his true role was painstakingl,yaas-
Lt. Col. Michal Goleniewski. s untied from many parts of the world, Ineiuilin'
s .x cities where his record indicated he had served
The hope of keeping buried forever the story th distinction. The case against hint was wrapped
of the high-level American turncoat,. and that of u 3 tight,
his American mistress who worked in the Warsaw It was devastating and irrefutable. All ti-le a;; tints
Embassy, is one of the prime motives behind the who worked on it were sure it would go to a, `r'eder s `
almost desperate attempts of the State Dept. and
Central Intelligence Agency to keep Col. Golenie'w$-i gram. jury.. as certainly as that of Irwin N. ?ced ,
from testifying before the Senate Internal Securitywhom a blackmailing Polish blonde persuaded t to
Subcommittee. hand over classified documents to UB (Polish) and
Other reasons behind those attempts are fear XGB agents.
o his disclosure of 19 Americans working for the Great was the surprise. of the American investi-
KGB (Soviet Secret Police), 12 In the State Dept., gators when a contrary decision came down from
four in the CIA and three in U.S. scientific labora- the command post in Foggy Bottom. The word was,
tories. "No prosecution, No word of the case to anyone."
One subpoena for Col. Goleniewski's appearance So secret was the matter kept that a third salvo
before the Senate subcommittee already had been of bombshells from the Warsaw case came in rapid
c ,,Sashed at CIA's request before a series of stories in ouccession, as follows:
f?pis newspaper began on March 2. ? The secret was kept from the Passport Division
of
After the stories broke, U.S. Rep. Michael A.; the State Dept.
l cighan (D.-Ohio) won a promise froin the CIA that. The culprit picked up an American passport
.Col. Goleniewski would be delivered to airBeret session and departed for Europe, leaving his wife behind him.
of the Senate panel. It's still touch-and-go, however, ? -1= is brunet mistress, who had been recalled
from Warsaw for questioning, promptly applied for
with political pressures on all sides, and received a to return
uspected all along but unknown to this reporter passport permanently to
Europe as an American employed there.
until yesterday was a more potent reason for th? With the wife safely shelved back in the States,'
pressure and the reluctance of any Federal agency the two lovebirds of espionage are now reportedly
a word about the case since it first a
to sa
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In print here.
It was the Russians, it has now been learned-
not any U.S. operative-who broke the Warsaw spy
case of 1960-61.
They did it to save the valued professional agent
they had in our embassy there.
They did it because they knew the heat was or
and if they "surfaced" some minor offenders It could
operating freely in Europe with credentials which
make it possible for them to duck under the Iron
Curtain in either direction.
At this point in the narrative the ordinary citizen
is entitled to wonder:
What possible service was ever rendered the
nation by enveloping this case in secrecy, rather'
th
~?~~.r to
e list W those who love
provide enough diversionary fanfare to deflect sus-- the Soviet Union more than their native land is a
13icion from their mane
the outside world-reverberated in the
highest pur
ie+IS of the Government. ;Note : The Baltimore NEWS AMERICAN adds
a paragraph: "Why those spies truly
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tall, moustached, Michigan-born career man who will
Their ruse succeeded for a few months. Then be 60 iiext May_ 8.
It blew up with a bang which-though muffled from
C'OAtntle~T
to lesser violators?"
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"To make a long story short, the Russians got
CAS~ OT' NE FOUND ,,cared. -'they `surfaced' Scarbeck, a man who was
His initials are "E.S." The only reason he's not highly expendable to them, and began a frantic hunt
named here is because I have not been able to give ,for the real Goleniewski.
him a chance to speak his piece. I have offered a "The surfacing of Scarbeck led to the wholesale
similar chance to CIA, State and the, FBI, and all !discovery of minor security leaks, at our embassy,
have declined. At least, however, they had the chance. ? ut the Russians held onto their real agent-("l;.S.")
But in the case of "Mister S.", the Spy Who Got the early months of the Kennedy Adiatinis-
Away, I have been unable to find him or his mistress. tration.
I did manage to spend an hour reading his biographi-
c.al notes in the various issues of the State Dept.'s