PENKOVSKY PAPERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600270026-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2000
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: October 15, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

THE GUARDIAN
Approved For Release 2000/O .bCfA4ftPltga@i*R000600270026-2
OCTOBER 15, 1965
Penkovsky
papers
announced yester-
day the publication next
month of the "Penkovsky
Papers," a collection of intel-
ligence reports sent from Moscow
to the West by Colonel Oleg
Penkovsky, himself a Soviet
intelligence officer, before he was
caught and sentenced to death
in 1962.
While Collins is in no position
to say so, the papers have
unquestionably been made avail-
able by the Central Intelligence
Agency, which regards their
publication as an important move
in the battle of wits between
Western and Soviet 'intelligence
organisations.
When the papers are published
they will be seen to surpass in
extent and detail any comparable
documents in the history of
espionage. Victor Zorza, who
has had an opportunity to study
much of the Penkovsky material,
discusses its authenticity' and
significance in his Friday
column; The Communist
World," on page 13.
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