U.S. SECRET AGENCIES PENETRATED BY REDS

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• Publication Date: March 2, 1964
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NF YOR
IERICAN
MAR 1964
By GUY RICHARDS
Copyright 1964, N.Y. Journal-American
defector from the Soviet Secret Police has in-
.:orri-.ed U. S. officials that Moscow has placed active
in the Central Intelligence Agency and the
State Dept. in Washington and overseas.
The Red defector, a high-ranking operative in
R.ussia's KGB, is sure that the "cells" are still opera-
tive in the two highly sensitive government agencies.
He and his wife have been living in a modest
apartment not more than 30 minutes from Times
Square. He has been given a new name and identity
especially fabricated to blot out his past and help hip
blend into the American scenery.
He has named names. He ha s provided Washing-
ton with details of what looms as a greater ?:.eancial
than the famous Alger Hiss case. Her ;:;o:aie of
his shattering disclosures:
? Approximately $1.2-million of (1.1.1101:Is in Vienna
recently was passed secretly aTopi.' to the Communists
?one third to (the Soviet Secret Police), one
third to the itulia.n Communist Party and one third to
the American Communist Party.
? Three American scientists .withatecss to defense
secrets are working for the IfdB. They have ties to
others in the same category whose Identities are un-
known to him. But he has clues Co a number of them.
? KGB has been able to infiltrate all American em-
? bassies in important cities abroad and "every U. S.
agency except the FBI."
rolarinued
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a Little, if anything, has been done to run down or. '"The lieneficiary, i'dichal ?Goleniewski, a native
clean out the KGB men on American payrolls though
and citizen of Poland, was born Aug. 16, 1922, in Nies- .
he fed the facts and cosures on them to the CIA, His wife, Irmgard,
starting as far back as 1960. is a native of Berlin and rarty of roland from Janu-
4 Instead of ? having. Els information used for the,. a citizen of Germany. ary, .1946, until April, Ina.
" when he defected. Without
the enactment of H.R. 5507
(the proposed bill) the bene-
ficiary will not be eligible, for
naturalization prior to 1968.
clean-out job he-came here for, her charges, he has They are now w ingiii
the United States.
been thwarted by amateurs and "Stalinists": in the
CIA and even kept from communicating his plight to "The beneficiary's edu-
responsible higher officials here. ? cation was all in Poland:
These allegations have been made by a former in 1919-be graduated from
Na-
high executive of both the. Russian and Polish secret1 the Gymnasium; he corn- ?
? "The Immigration and Na-
turalization Service has been
pieted three years of law
police organizations. He had his own Vane. He was: advised that the contribu-
free to fly all Over Europ, tild did. . , ? ? _ I at the University of Poz- tions made by Mr. Galeniew-
1
He iS Michal Gol,niewski, 41,a, husky and hand- nan, and in 1956 ie rc-
I ? ski, to the security of the .
some Polish-born agent from
prototype
who resembles the Hollywood,' ceio'd , master's degree
In political science
prototype of the suave, laclykilling spy. He's credited j the University of Warsaw.
with breaking the Irwin N. Scarbeck spy case in War-
saw in 1961. The CIA is on record in Congress as en- ; Report Covers
? Help to U. S.
"He enlisted in the Poli volved grave ersonal risk.sh
dorsing these observations:
"His services to the United States are rated as
United States are rated by
the U. S. Government as truly
significant.
"He has collaborated with
the Government in an out-
standing manner and under
circumstances which have 'pIn-
'truly significant . . He has collaborated with the
Army in 1945 and was corn- He continues to make major
Government in an outstanding manner and under cir? ?Imissioned a lieutenant colo- contributions to the national
cumstances which have involved grave personal risk." nel in 1655, which rank he security of the United States:
Though he has yet to testify on espionage matters -held until coming to the , ... His primary motivation in
before any committee of the Senate or House, which United States in 1961 (after offering to work with the
he wants to do, and which many legislators want him, breaking the Scarbeck case.) Government has been and re-
to do, his case has become the center of one of the He is now employed as a con- 'mains his desire to counter
'
biggest behind-the-scenes battles ever to rear tro in
the jurisdictional area between the legislative and
executive branches of the Government.
In the tussle over him things have happened
which seem incredible in a democratic nation.
A Congressional subpoena was virtually smuggled
to him?than mysteriously quashed. A letter he wrote
to a Congressman was intercepted. An Army colonel
who visited him was later hounded and "investigated."
Michael Goleniewski might still be living in un-
heralded torment if a, Cleveland, 0., Congressman
hadn scented a slightly fishy odor in a routine office
proceeding.
? The time was last summer. The scene was Capitol
Hill, in the office of the chairman of the Hotuse Immi-
gration Subcommittee. Sitting at his desk was white-
plumed, bespectacled, Ohio Democrat, Rep. Michael
A. Feighan, a graduate Of Princeton and Harvard Law
School, and a good friend of. the late President
By his side was a man from the CIA. The latter
Kennedy.
showed the Congressman a report and proposed bill
which would bestow on "Michal Goleniewski" the
benediction of U. S. citizenShip, The former KGB
agent's "truly significant" services were duly
chronicled in the report? It- sitate,d,.irn part:,
MAR 2 1964
sulta,nt bithe U. S. Govern- :the menace of Soviet Com-
,
iment." .?
? After a brief digression, the
lieport ? continued:
"Mr. Goleniewski was a'
member of the.,Conimunist ?
munism." . .
GiVes Views
To CIA Man
This report and the bill it.
? was designed to expedite had ?
1 ? one primary motive. It was, in '
the rords of a Congressional
. aide, "to wipe out the past of
: Polish citizen and create
l' 'a man who never was,' an '
;.American citizen with.a new ,
, name, a new identity iknei,a
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Goleniewski had his \rife
with him. He also had plenty
of adverse criticism to de-
liver about U. S. operations.
, On the ticklish issue of
whei;her he should be allowed
10 to .ice a member of_the legis-
lative branch, the wheels be-
gan _
to whir in the heavily
gimrded cm. Building in
Langley, Va., 12 miles outLid
Washington. -? ?
Secret Session
. Set an Me EH!
It was finallfdeeided that
the answer had better be af-
firmative if Rep. Feighan's
cooperation was to be ob-
tained. The Congressman was
duly notified it was okay.
That brought another big
eeeision, this One in Congress.'..
it was 'considered advisable:- e
that a subpoena from a?Con-.
gressional committee be sent
with Rep. Feighant just in
case it seemed proper?a-nd
Goleniewski thought so, too
?for the latter to appear be- -
fore' a secret session on The 1,
Hill.
' A subpoena was prepared.,
An appointment was set for .
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gressional bill (above) .cleared the way for former
Polish agentn Michal Goleniewski to become a
U. S. citizen. His services to the United States
were emphasized (below) in the measure.
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Rep. Feighan was thorough-
ly aware of the purpose of
the repoft. .He was sympa-
thetic, A man with a long
record of fighting subver-
sives, and often stubbornly
independent of the executive
branch, he is known for his
special dislike of being turned '
into a rubber' stamp by any
government agency.
He expressed his view's to.,
the CIA men. He said he was -
shocked at the amount of de-
tail presented about Golen-
iewski. He said he had heard
reports, about the KGB . de-
fector, but had never laid
eyes on him. He' remarked he
didn't like to promote any
legislation on ,a pig-in-the-
poke basis ,and concluded
With the request:
"I'd like to see the live
body."
It by bit he ullin4.6rd the
:ied out. I. the be-
:ginning of this fi.ory.
. 4L3 trio of listeners Were
so shocked that thcy never
got around to talk about the
subpoena. Not one of them
'regarded the Pole as warped
'1 or biased. All knew that the
. CIA had been greatly rerved
' by him. They were staggered.
?I On his return to
? . JOHN A. McCONE
k ?(taterviewed yes terda.y, CIA ?Chief Got the Word.
Ta 1 -L;o r this reporter i ha d, ! checked facts from many
'scourcis over a 10-day period, ,
f Rep. Peighan said: .
"From the very beginning ,
, my main concern was for the
safety of this man (Goleniew-
ski). Everything else seemed '
.` secondary.. I. still have the ,
. same concern. .. I
Rep Peignan. made the''
His . request was carried ?i : ,:
?,
trip from Washington to New ;
back to higher CIA officials. York with two Congressional ;
There were several days of -aides. They landed' at La-
dickering and phoning back ' Guardia Airport, and drove ,
land forth between 'CIA' and
Congress.
This bore light on two hoi:IJ
. .
sons of growing importance 1
In security matters: ? -. .
A) The? fact that , the' exA
ecutlie branch contrOls CIA,.
State, Defense:" Army, iNavy,,-
Air Forc and rBI?all the
,intelligence-gathering agen- : described as "everlasting?I'll
. cies?and jealously guards its never forget it."
.rights to run out all adverge ' Sweet, harried-looking and ,
criticism of these ,units' -per- pregnant, his Wife was in at-
formance. tendance part of the time.
) The personal si ? . , 1 But all the time, striding en- .
Of . defectors vary greatly. , ergetically back, and forth in
Some, like Turf Nossenke. l -the apartment, the former
have been ? publicized. Some .1KGB bigshot painted the plc-
have not. Some bring. adverse 1 tura of what it feels' like to
criticism of American opera- I
J flee the KGB only to find
to an apartanent building like;
a thousand -Others on Long'
Island. . ? ?
A Lasting
? Impression
The handsome Pole made
an impression that ones has
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tions. Some do not. Some ;nothing coming fiorn his
have families behind the Iron leads and his liaison man
Curtain whose? safety is en- /I hi it
rilangered by publicity here. ?
'Some don't. ....?
II with the CIA a Stall st.
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ton. Rep. Feighan immedi-
ately arranged an appoint-
'ment with CIA Director John
A. MeCone. ? He told him
everything lie had heard and
urged him to look into the
eituation and correct it. Dlr.
NeCone said he would.
One Of the other men de-
cided to make a return visit
AO* Goleniewski. He brought
;the 'subpoena, along (it was
'not from any committee to
which Rep. Feighan belongs)
and ,he also brought some
Foreign Service rosters to en-
able -him to interrogate the
defector more explicitly.
Very Eager
To Testify
This Congressional aide ob-
tained a second and more
searching interview with the
Pole. The latter also ex-
pressed his eagerness to tes-
tify in an executive session
of any appropriate Congres-
eional committee. The sub-
poena was_served. ?
A date and time was set
fine GolenieWski's appearance
before the Congressional com-
mittee. Rep. Feighan felt
assured that Whatever was
wrong would soon be smoked
'out on The Rill. ? ? -
But .instead of that appear-
ance, a man from the'CIA ar-
ranged to have a key member
of the committee involved
vacate the subpoena and can-
cel the date. Another CIA
than reliably ? reported to
have pressured the Army to
investigate the subpoena-
server ' With' a view toward
charging him with making.
Use of information gained on
active duty- '(he was then on
inactive duty); and for ?mas-
querticling as an intelligence
officer. '
- The Army was wrong on
;both counts.: The aide didn't
get the information on active
.duty, and he IS an intelli-
gence officer..
? Word was quietly passed
from samewhere that Mr.
CroleniewSki 'hed-"flitMed his
' lid" and 'was-- becoming tin-
, rellableso CIA deesn't think
'"worthwhile" for him to
appear before the legislative
branch.
' Asked about this yesterday,
Rep. Feighan said: ?
"That's utterly ridiculoug.
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The man seemed worried, and
even excited, hat his mind is
In excellent shape. I was im-
pressed by everything he had .
to say."
So were the two others.
Rep. Feiglia.n a?Ided that
"I ea mini, deny ray role in
?bringing this ease to the at-
tention of Mr. MeCone, 'the ;
head of the Central Intelli-
gence Agency."
-Up to the moment, how-
ever, it doesn't seem to have'l
done much good.
Though Goleniewski has
been moved elsewhere to keep
the Russians guessing, he has
yet to tell his story to Con- 4
gress. He has yet to ace any
real results, he :jay, from. ,
'what he came here to tell us..!
Be has yet to enjoy many of :
the blessings that reverted te
him in theory when he ob-
tained his American citizen-
ship a few weeks ago. The bill
got a fair wind from- Rep.
Feighan and his associates.'
Ticatmcrit Won't
? Encouras;9 Others
? Wont the viewpoint of Cia-i
? leniewski, the ? joys of hiS
American- "liberation" Must
seem, oddly constrained. He ?
is a prisoner of the executive;
branch of our: -Government'
in a way few other ? citizens.
have been. He is more con-
fined, more .IncOmmunicado;
than he, ever was before he
bolted. .
From a reporter's View-
'point he seems to be 'a bat-
tered casualty of a war as
savage and devious as the
Cold 'War. It's the war now
raging in the 'upholstered
jungle where 'different agenti
of our Government are stalk-
ing?and frequently opPos-'
Ing?each-other. ? , '
One thing is sure. His plight
Is poor recruiting bait for
more KGB defectors, Already
two have been , murdered or
inexplicably killed after they,
arrived here. The mental or- -
deal' to .1vhleh Goleniewski
has been .subjected on this
side of the Atlantic 'Could uh-
timately prove to be the more,
refined kind Of 'homicidal'.
retribution. It leaVes.no.
evi-
dence whatsoever. ?
,
*The CIA? A' spokearnaile
said there would be no com-
ment On the matter. ,
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Russian spying is an
Michael A..Feighan. The
spy Michal Goleniewski is
attention of the powerful
He's been hard on the trail
of Russian infiltration into
the Free World nations for
the last nine of his 21 years
.in Congress. ' ?
URGED PROBE IN '55
' In 1955 he called for an
investigation into American
government plans to put up
$500,000,000 to help Soviet
agents, in the guise of "White
Russians," to enter some 30
free nations without any se-
curity check.
, Noting that the , White
Russians carried Soviet pass.
ports, he said:
? "The Kremlin never allows'
an enemy to make use of
a U.S.S.R. passport."
Concern about America's
role in international affairs,
? and especially about the
"cold war" with Russia, has
been a hallmark of Mr. Feig-
old, old story to Ohio's Rep.--
case of Polish-born Soviet- ???
Only the latest to draw the. .
Cleveland. Democrat.
In fact, it was the principal
issue he raised in 1942 when
he trounced veteran Rep. M.-
L. Sweeney to win the Demo-
cratic primary and went on '
.to capture his seat, from* the
downtown slum wards of ,
? Cleveland.
Now 59, he is married to.
the former Florence Matt-.
hews and the father of two
children, William M. and
Feur Feighan. He is a gradu-
ate of Princeton and Harvard
_Law School. :
? His pride in his work as a
fighter against international
Communism is emphasized
?In' the brief biographical.
Sketches submitted to .the;
Congressional Directory. Of.
all the many awards he has
received . during .an :active.
public career, it lists only
one, the "Viligant Patriot
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REP. M. FEIGHAN -
Arch Foe of Subversives
American Conference to
'Combat Communism. He won
that twict, once in 1959 and ?
han's career.. ? ? ? , . Honor Plaque" of . the All-. ? again last, year.
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