SOVIET LABELS OUSTED U.S. STUDENT A SPY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500280025-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 7, 2010
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: August 6, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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' A,\oc~nled erw ,
EDWIN MORRELL
eewspaper activities "news"4
Soviet Labels
Ousted U. S.
Student 4 Spye U. S. 'Embassy 'officials con-
firnied that Morrell was asked
MOSCOW, Aug. 5 (UPI). to leave the Soviet Union, but
The Sovlet fiewipaper Trpd added that Russian authorities
today said AIMrlcan exchange gave "other reasons" at the
student Edwit Morrell, g1, of. time for the expulsion.
d
Salt Lake Ct! ' Utah, w"-Ox' Ing Soviet t aaderunions at the
palled from oscow Univer Moscow University, but that
sty last Mori, for spy acty- "students helped unmask Mor-
itles. 't rail and in July he was sent
Morrell, a Harvard Univer? 'off from the Soviet Union."
sity student'r issued '"11' itate? It said MOrhU was "ex?
ment at hi 1:,Qalt Lake City palled fro m Crechoaiovr
home, den7srq 'tlhe spy charge. two' years ago for subversive
He said he 14raf 4,me his grade- activities and espionage" and
ate studie'a en Vtoviet labor added that he "laughed at our
unions "its rat $'laetive man-' life In an insulting manner
ner," befl'was ttsfted June' and Incited foreign . tourists
13 he wa being eAl WUed from against. Soviet yduth and bur
Moscow
University11`
'Sor fall- country." r
4
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ere in , oliow his sway' plan.' In Cambridge, MMs?, Her.
Tru,4 organ of the Central yard officials said Morrell on-
Councal of Trade 11JJn~oats, said tared the Harvard Graduate
Morrell ?ens ord'attu out in School in the fall of 1966, and
July b ause he "cMftatantly was awarded a master of arts
mado r ttempts *to penetrate degree in political science in
Into ; t'e union organizations June 1969. Records list him,
of '4 : lt:unitloni industry to a a "traveling fallow," which
t .p the task of the InteW, means he received financial
itt task
,gW to travel abroad.
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