THE PACE OF WEST'S SPY EFFORTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600290024-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 1999
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: June 4, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

W A STTTNCTON STAR
JUN 4 1963
Approved For Release 2 0 4 CIA- D 5-0 1 9 0
By RALPH McGILL
The Pace of West's Spy. Efforts
O l e g P e n loo v s is 9' ~-41es Mr. Khrushchev to! the fury
Approved
Disappearance of Gen. Ivan
A. Serov, chief of Soviet Army
Intelligence (unexplained at
this writing), is a straw in
that wind. Another fact to
which Western observers-at-
tach importance is that Brit-
ish businessman Wyrine re-
ceived a sentence -_Only
eight years - two 1e than
that demanded by the!prose-
-cution. It was so late the
courtroom crowd registered
disapproval and was 'waved
into silence by the judge. Mr.
Wynne was the necessary and
invauabourier. Thg sup-
posi n I t s hat he was given
a and sertence because he
had t-co-operated fully- with
Soviet-officials. This means
he. supplied the names of
those he knew to have, been
implicated in what must have
been a very substantial pene
tration bf Soviet intelligence.
T oictment itself- said
tha successful supply of
Soviet `secrets to the West,'
by Col. Penkovsky, via c Tier
Wynne, and others, coered
a period of two years.. and
included information about'
Russian rockets, ' Ru ran
forces in East`Geimany, ino-
Russian relat 4nships and
other matte `It is h{g-lily
p obb bl,r that" The Penk ? sky
case contributed to the togh-
ening of the Soviet attitude
and the decision to avoid
any agreement whatever in
barip)ng' atoim a testing.
if,-we recalltlhe U-2 con-
tribution, an4 sprmise what
two years o contact with
Penkovsky may have pro-
duced,-we can, be sure that
Western intelligence has ger-
tainly kept pace with. the
best efforts , the I ehilin.
Eisenhower was aware of the apparatus, if, in fact, it has
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ident said he was. it drove (411 iaa:.l,t,i Tit ? rvea
,Jtates.
iicial squad of exect3iot eft.
A court had found him gullty
of selling Soviet secrets to
Western nations, especially
P r i t a i n and the United
a-mouId?ering in i grave in of demolishing the Paris sum-
some p n know n plot near mit meeting and to the utter
M o s 6-o v. His body was destruction of Mr. Eisenhow-
marred by the punctures of er's sincere ambition to close
wary n s e as
d
a
lie had "iieen assistant mill-' ing what is said. betwe il,_the
tary attache in Turkey. When lines, or of hearing ' w is
he stood -to be shot he was left u aid, to dedllce_m hat
43, slim, his hair 'touchedWester intelligence' did a
with gray, rum` ace sensitive= "Very'gd~d job - so good, in
and well. featur'6d,..IIis rank , t that: the Soviets are
had been that of colonel. ,iis shocked are engaged in a
medals and tlecifrations num- ruthless e-up and purge
.I :: n4 4hnir ifv'it,ritar-int.d"tliaenre'
out his last year as chief
executive of this country as
a man committed to the ad-
vancement of peace,
Did a Good `ob
Oleg Penkovsky was no or- lence,, have enabled' those
t io skilled in the business of read-'
' l
This was the peak of Mr.
Eisenhower's great dream of
being an international peace-
maker. Mr. Khrushchev had
awards. . (.s:0-1 The proseciitar%`d rged '
that Col. Penkovsky main-
tained a relationship with his
Western associates that was.
more than that of a paid spy.
An Englishman, . Or e v ill e
Wynne, British businessman,
was sentenced to eight years,
five. of them at hard labor._
He was described as the,
courier. The courtroom
.crowd, which applauded the
death sentence give1 Col.
Penkovsky, cried out, "Too
little; too little," when it
beard Wynne's fate. The So-
viet people, also feel the{ have
not been,told what motivated
Col. Penkovsky.
Official. circles in this ic)un-
try. and Britain have said
nothing. Nor will they. This
is the way of life irr the un-
known world of intelligence.
It generally is conceded that
the worst of the many errors
in the U-2 case, in which the
United States pilot, Francis
Powers, was shot down, was
the admission by then P,}esi-
dent Eisenhower thatj'Mr.
Powers was, in fact, on.an
intelligence mission. T h e
Russians had known of pre-
vious U-2 flights. Nikita
Khrushchev knew of them
when he was visiting Presi-
dent ,Eisenhower. at C am p
David, arid, wheal he planned
for the presidential visit to
Russia
Parrs Session Broken. Up
the Order of the Red_Ban-
ncr one of the highest Soviet