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CIA-RDP75-00149R000300200014-5
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Ex Spy. Says AitiReds .
Aid Soviet Aims in U. Se.
By Rasa Gustaltis
Staff Reporter
v is Believes a
nti-Communist groups spreading confusion in the
nited States are more valuable to the U.S.S.R. than,
na fide Reds seeking secrets.
tie armed forces resistance
because the American-trained
tank units sad the British-
trained air fore had been re-
placed by COMMUnist-trained
men "
.
This objective was accom-
plished by spreading rumors
about officers Until they were
so thoroughly di acredited
their men would not . obey
them and they, had to be re-'
moved,' Granovaky explained.
? The Soviets also used tactics
to divide Protestants and Cath
olics, Ctech+ Sudeten-Ger-'
mans and. Slov*ks, and to dis-'
credit businessmen, tie acid.
Czechoslovakia was a l4gh
ly develocad ' country, the.
only one in Eastern Europe.
to maintain I "democratic form
of government between the
two World Wars, and had 'a
high standard of living.
"Not Just backward coun.
tries, but any community or
country con thus be de-,
strayed," declared the former
NKVD man..
Therefore tanning of rellgi?
purged, the former
who was
ous and racial conflict, at
spy fled to Sweden in 1948 and
tempts to discredit the Central later made his way to Brazil
Ite___j qce Agency ;n ' p where he " wrote a book,
"All
promote aTH among the
Pity Choked " about his ex-
branches of the armed fords pcrlencei It was published in
aid the Communist cause, 1. London In 1955.
Granovsky said. He added: 1. ''He ' bias wandered around,
~-
,I decision-makers is absorbed by r,
farmed services squabbling,!
thib
er moty and strength is
;drained and there is no need
for Soviet agents to irifluence
{American generals."
years, doing odd Jobs in var-
lons cities. He said he came to'
Washington recently, ' hoping
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as a captain of political in-
iligence In the.Ministry of
tate' Security of the Soviet
nion In 1g45 and 1949 and
ariler had been a member of
to Soviet Secret Police
KVD) said 'in an ? interview
ere:
"The Soviet Communists
would sacrifice a thousand
merlean Communists to save
.111 Johh. :'Spciety, for
I stance. I don't 'mean the
rich Society Commmunist-
iltrai ; 4t' oeaa't have to
B4 4 Icredliing prominent
erle it ceorfusea the
Is about '
' *hoca te.
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"In jallzlniCaechoslova-
( fell to the Comxau.
!! 248) we did every-
g t