THE SPY COUP IN RUSSIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600290035-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 1999
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: May 30, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

AL W )'JrJ'. MAY 3 0 1 63
HERALD TRImUNI?
Approved For Release 2000/04
STATINTL
Rocketry
Marshal
.bounced
By James E. Warner
Of The Herald Tribune Staff
gwo OPJ
Izvestia announced in Moscow that And as facts began to come out, y observers saw that a major power 114'
missile forces were relieved or demoted years deprivation of freedom.
yesterday. exploding the simmering Pan- Power Struggle
Top officials of Soviet rocket and anti- was also convicted and sentenct4 tlWht
Marshal Varentsov was specif a ly
charged with having helped exccuted4po
Col. Oleg Penkovsky get his job as deputy
chief of the foreign sv ction of the Soviet.
State Committee for Scientific Research,
and with having arranged for a reversal
of Penkovsky's dishonorable discharge from
the army.
Izvestia said the other men had shown
One of the charges made against Col.
Penkovsky at his Moscow show trial earlier'
this month was that lie had passed rocket
secrets to the West.
The colonel was convicted and hill exeen~
WASHINGTON. British business man, Greville M. !Wynne. '
Marshal Serge! S. Varentsov, Red Army was developing in the Kremlin. Pelrt.
artillery chief, had been ousted from his ought to have been seen weren't et
post and stripped of his rank. I I more. The Herald Tribune learned I
According to Information available here that Soviet cloak-and-dagger men 1
last night, Marshal Varentsov actually is the world were called home for "cc
Commander in Chief of the Soviet Union's tions. And then yesterday, the fa
ed heads officially rolled.
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rocket forces. Also demote
was his aide, Col. V. M. Buzinov. Later he got Penkovsky his job ti!
Maj. Gen. A. R. Pozovny, chief of polit- Scientific Committee. ii
1ca1 intelligence for air and missile forces Izvestia said Marshal Varentaor IEi
ten to know Penkovsky during WY0
in the Soviet Union, and Col. U. B, Pey- II. The marshal was then an arU'J
Cached to his command, also were relieved. koveky was also on the scene.
by inroads of British and U. S. Intelligence oMcially announced that lie h:J; :041
and relief indicate the degree o w ci tion he might become cor.rJttiilf of 1
the Russian high command has been shaken Soviet missile forces but it - s i rvf t r lyf
These men are what United States armed Varentsov was named a marrg ;i*t''t}r
forces call "top brass." And their demotoin and in 1981 he was promote) t'!!y
t hi 1 artillery, At that time there 'skit ,ee
dictation of Marshal Varentsov's role as
., wily were in sharp disagreement with over-
Gorey, prosecutor at the Penxovsxy-
Wytne trial.
;gut announced, but still alive and serving
''Sovie citizens got the impression that
;. Penkovsky divulged to the enemy nearly
'`'all the secrets connected with the military
equipment and defense potential of the
--Soviet state. This impression is groundless.
"Penkovsky at the post which he occur
pied stood far from the materials cones
,netted with the arming of our forces, their
location and introduction of new types of
armaments......
Gen. Gorny said Marshal Karentsov and
the others he named "were unaware of
9c nkovs!-:Y's u pionage activities and there-
,~re are unt criminally responsible."'
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only in the case o ti ar.
described Gen. Pozovnny and Col. Buzinov
The announcement in the Soviet govern-
went newspaper Izvestia went Into detail
f vha' Varentsov It
THE PLOT officials at the highest love, i,I
agents into their own inteutgence gnu the post.
command structure. His ouster boars out atsriruTtt