U.S. SECRET AGENCIES PENETRATED BY REDS

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• Publication Date: March 2, 1964
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CPYRGHT By GUY RICHARDS
Coovrizht 1964. N.Y. Journal-American
P ctor from the Soviet Secret Police has in-
lorraed U. S. officials that Moscow has placed active
"cells" in the Central Intelligence Agency and the
State Dept. in Washington and overseas.
The Red defector, a high-ranking operative In
Russia'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 hm
blend into the American scenery.
He has named names. He has provided Washing-
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ton with details of what looms as a greater scandal
. than the famous Alger Hiss case. Here' o.re some of
' his shattering disclosures:
? Approximately $1.2-million of CIA ? funds in Vienna
redently was, passed secretly along to the Communists
?One third to KGB, (the Soviet Secret Police), one
third to the Italian Communist Party and one third to
the Americau Communist Party.' ?
? Three American scientists .withAccess to defense
secrets are working for the -}f.di3, They have ties to
others in the same category whose-identities are un- ,
known to him. But he has clues to a number of them.
o KGB has been able to infiltrate all American em-
bassies- in important- cities. abroad and "every U. S.
agency except the FBI."
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? Little, if anything, 'has been done to run down .or
clean out the KM; men on American .payrolls though'
he fed the facts anci eeeesuree on them to the -CIA,
starting as far back as AO.
4 Instead of - having nei information used for the
clean-out job he.catne :?iere for, he' charges, he has
; been thwarted by amateues and "Stalinists" in the
CIA and even kept rum communicatinr his plight to.
responsible higher officiali here.
These allegations have been made by a former
high executive of both the _Russian and Polish secret
police organizations. lie had his own ,plane. He was
free to fly all over Errope and did. ?
He is Michal Cioleniewsk:, 41, a husky and hanei-.
some Polish-born ail'G who resembles the Hoilywoe4
prototype of the suave, laclykilLing spy. He's credited
with breaking the Irwin N. Scarbeck spy case in 'War-
saw in 1961. The CIA is on record in Congress as en-
dorsing these observations:
"Ills services to the United States are rated as
'truly significant . He has collaborated with the ,
Government in an outstanding manner and under cir-
cumstances which have involved grave personal risk."
Though he has yet to testify on espionage matters
before any committee of the Senate or House, which
he wants to do, and which many legislators want him
to do, his case has become the center of one of the
biggest behind-the-scenes battles ever to roar uo lfl
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.
Congressional subpoena was virtually smuggled
to 7elm?then mysteriously quashed. A letter he wrote
:-.-_,ongressman was intercepted. An Army colonel
,;:_ited him was later hounded and "investigated."
nael Goleniewski might still be living in un-
....eraide,d torment if la, Cleveland, 0., Congressman
hadn't 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 House Immi-
gration Subcommittee. Sitting at his desk was white-
plumed, bespectacled, Ohio Democrat, Rep. Michael
A. Feighan, a graduate Of Princeton and Harvard Law
;',3ehool, and a? good friend of. the late President
Xennedy.
By his side was a man from the CIA. The latter
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
ch-:onicled in the report. It stated, in part:
`The beneficiary, Mi
and citizen of Poland, was
WiCZ. His wife, Irmgard,
is a native of Berlin and
a citizen of Germany.
They are now living in
the United States.
"The beneficiary's edu-
cation was all in Poland:
in 1919 he graduated from
the Gymnasium; he com-
pleted three years of law
at the University of Paz-
nee:, and in 1956 he re-
celecel a master's degree
in eeelitical science from
chal Goleniewski, a native
born Aug. 16, 1922, in Nies-
'the University of Warsaw.
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1% 'Al to U.S.
"He enlisted in the Polish
Army hi. 1945 and was corn-
juissioned a lieutenant colo-
nel in 1055, which rank he
? held until coming to the
United States in 1061 (after
breaking the Scarbeck ease.)
He is now employed as a con-
sultant by the U. S. Govern-
ment."
After a brie! digression, the
yeport continued:
"Mr. Geleniewski was a
member of the .Communist
Party of Poland from Janu-
ary, 1946, until April, 1958,
when he defected. 'Without
the enactment of II.R. 5507
(the proposed bill) the bene-
ficiary will not be eligible_ for
naturalization prior to 1968.
"The Immigration and Na-
turalization Service has been
advised that the contribu-
tions made by Mr. Goleniev?'-
ski to the security of the .
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 in-
volved grave 'personal risk.
He continuos to make major
contributions to the national
security of the United States
Ills primary motivation In
offering to work with the
Government has been and re-
mains his desire to counter
the menace of Soviet Com-
munism."
Gives Views
To CIA- Man
This report and the bill it.,
was designed to expedite had
one primary motive. It was, in
the words of a Congressional
aide, "to wipe out the past of
Polish- citizen end create .
, 'a, man who never was,' an
,-American citizen with .a new
, name, a new identity 4kad a
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with him. He also had plenty s speed out at the be.-
of 'adverse criticism to de- ' ginning of this story.
liver about U. S. operations. . His trio of listeners were ?
On the ticklish issue of- , SO shocked that they never
'whether lie should be allowed I got around to talk about the
to see a member of.the legis- subpoena. Not one of them ?
,
lativa branch, the wheels be- regarded the Pole as warped
- or biased. All knew that the
gait to whir In the heavily- CIA had been greatly served
gUarded CIA Building in. by him. They were staggered.
Langley, Va., 12 miles OutLidel
On his return to Washing-
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ET. S. citizen. His services to the United States
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new status, free to find a new
life here."
Rep. Feighan was thorough-
ly aware of the purpose of
the report. 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.e
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 hrid never laid
eyes en him. He' remarked
,eldn't like to promote any
leaisiation on ,a pig-in-the-
:like basis and concluded
h the reeicest:
'ee.T ..ike to i.co the live
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It, was finally' decided that
the answer had better be af-
firmative if Rep. Feighan's
cdcperation was to be oh-
tallied. The Congressme.) was
{-11, notified it was okay.
at brought another big e'
ilecon, this One in Congress.4-
It 'MIS considered advisable !LL
, that a subpoena from a eon-,
gressional committee be sent
! with Rep. Feighan ezist in
ease it seemed proper?awl.
Goleniewski thought so, too
?for the latter to appear be-
fore a secret session on The
His request was earried
back to higher CIA officials.
There were several days of
dickering and phoning back
and forth between 'CIA - and
Congress.
This bore light on two hori-
zons of growing importance
In security matters: .
.A) The. fact that the cx.4 !
ecutiVe branch controls CIA,
State, Defense,' Army, Navy,
Air Fora and FBI?all the
.1ntelligence-gathering agen-
cies?and jealously guards its
.rights to run out all adverse
criticism of these units' per-
formance.
B) The personal sitUagiree
of defectors vary grceine.
Some, like Yuri Nossenko,
have been publicized. Some,
have not. Some bring adverse
criticism of American opera-
tions. Some* do not. Some
neve fan-lilies behind tint Iron
Curtain whose safety Is en-
Tdangercel by publicity here.
"Some don't.
Hill.
A subpoena was prepared.,
An appointment was set for
seVcral days later in New
Yerk. . JOHN A. McCONE
XIaterviewed yesterday, ;CIA Chief Got the Word
,t,,tcr this reporter h44
cheeked facts front mare/ I?
sources over a 10-day period,
Rep. Feighan said:
"Front the very beginning
any main concern was for the !
safety of this man (Goleniew-
ski). Everything else seemed
: secondary. I still have the ;
same concern."
Rep. Feignan- made the
trip from Washington to New :
'York with two Congressional
aides. They landed at La- '
Guardia Airport, and drove
to an apartment building like '
a thousand others on Long
Island. ?
A Lospag
Impression
The handsome Pole made
an impression that one, ha
described as "cverlasting?I'll !
never forget it."
Sweet, harried-looking and
pregnant, his wife was in at-
tendance part of the time. 1
But all the time, striding en-
crgetically back and forth in
the apar'dnent, the former
KGB bigshot painted the plc-
lute of what it, feels like to
;flee the KGB only to find
:nothing coming front his
leads and his liaison man
!Wig/. ;he CIA a "Stalinist,"
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ton, Rep. Feighan immedi-
ately arranged an appoint-
'meat with CIA Director John
A. McCone, He told him
everything be had heard and
urged him to look into the
situation and correct it. 11.2:r.
MeCone said he would.
One of the other men O
cidcd to make a return Iris;t
te GolenieWski. He brought
,the subpoena along (it w t3
not from any committee so
which alep. Feighan belongs)
and lse alr'e brouali% ear e
Foreign Service rastf-::,, to e
able -him to interrete te
de,fez.tor more explicitly,
Vory Eir;Icr
rgo
This Congressional aide ob-
tained a second and more
searching interview with the
273Jo. The latter also ex-
)pressed his eagerness to tos-
'Iffy in an executive session
of any -appropriate Congres-
sional committee. The sub-
poena was_served.
A date and time was Txt
for GolenieWski's appearai,ce
before the Congressional com-
mittee. Rep. Feighan felt
assured that whatever was
wrong would soon be smoked
out on The
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
man i reliably reported to
have presstired the Army to
investigate th e 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-
querading 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 somewhere that Mr.
Goleniewski 'had ""flipPed his
lid" and 'was becoming un-
reliable-L-so CIA' doesn't think
"worthwhile" for him to
appear before the legislative
branch.
Asked about this Yesterday,
* Rep. Feighan said: -
, " "That's utterly ridiculous.
The man seemed worried, and
even excited, but his mind is
in excellent shape, 1 was im-
pressed by everything he had:
? to say."
SO were tho Ovn others.
Rep. 1'01,71:an added that ?
"I cannot deny ray role in
bringing this case to .the at-
tendon of Mr. '21cCane, the
head of the Cenal Intelli-
genoe Agency."'
Up to the moment, how-
ever, it doesn't seem *o hoc
done much good.
The ugh Goloniev:61n hes
been moved elsewhere to keep
the Russians guessing, he has
yet to tell his story ho Con-
gress. .?;:ie has yet ta see ally
real results, lie .:';iy;4, front
what he came here to tell us.
Fe has yet to enjoy many of
the hlessro-.4 that reverted to
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.
Trzatnint Wen'?
F
:C;raer:
Wain the viewpoint of GO--,
leniewski,* the joys of hiS
American "liberation" must
seem oddly constrained, He
is a prisoner of the executive.
branCh of our. Government'
In R, way few other? citizens
have been. He is more con-
fined, more incommunicado,.
than he ever was before he
bolted.
Prom 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 agents
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 liere. The mental or- -
deal to which Goleniewski
has been subjected on this
side of the Atlantic could ul-
timately prove to be the more
refilled kind' of 'homicidal
retribution.' It leaves no evi-
dence whatsoever. ,
The CIA? ? A spoketinan
said there would be no com-
ment on the matter. ? '
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