KGB MOLE AIDED PARIS, BOOK SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000201860003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 6, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON TIMES
6 January 1986
KGB mole
aided Paris,
book says
PARIS (AFP) - A KGB agent in Paris
passed on some of the most valuable se-
crets about Soviet industrial spying ever
to reach the West in exchange for a de-
cent living if he left his country, accord-
ing to a new book.
The book, "The KGB in France;" was
written by journalist Thierry Wolton. It
began serialization yesterday in the
weekly newsmagazine Le Point. It said
the spy's revelations enabled France to
expel 47 Soviet diplomats as spies in 1983
without reprisal.
The mole, who was not identified, was
known as "Farewell" to the Direction de
la Surveillance du Territoire, or DST, the
French counterespionage service.
He began working for the DST in the
first quarter of 1981, left Paris unsus-
pected by the KGB in November 1982,
and may be in prison in the Soviet Union
for murder, the book says.
"Farewell;" according to the book, gave
the West "the Soviet strategy on the sci-
entific and technological front," includ-
ing lists of groups spying for the Soviet
Union, the names of principal spies, their
plans and achievements.
The agent, an official of the KGB de-
partment for scientific and technological
spying, the book says, also provided in-
formation on the estimated yearly sav-
ings that industrial spying brought the
Soviet Union.
According to reports in Moscow, a
senior KGB agent was convicted at the
end of 1982 for the murder of a policeman
investigating his moral conduct. The
DST believes that "Farewell" was that
agent.
STAT
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