HIS GREATEST SERVICE PENKOVSKY UNMASKED 3 SOVIET SPIES IN WEST

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CREST [1]

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General CIA Records [2]

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CIA-RDP75-00149R000800040003-0

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November 17, 2016

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June 10, 1999

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November 18, 1965

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WASIIIN'CPTON POST AND TIMES HERALD /08/03 NI 42~P3g-0149R0 STATINTL i.+s4 4.I-eales$ Service ~ e kovs ~~ Unmasked 3 Soviet. SIMeS in West By Don Cook Lon Anselcs Timee PARIS, Nov. 17-Whatever the value of the spy' papers of Col. Oleg Penkovsky, or even their validity,, which is being questioned by some experts on Soviet, ,affairs, his greatest service to the West was the un- (masking of key Russian agents in Paris, London and Stockholm. The three most important espionage cases in the West in the last five years were all broken by counterintelligence services on the basis of infor- mation passed to Britain and the United States by Penkov- sky. The cases involved: Georges Paques, a senior French civil servant who spied fq. the Russians in the \linistry of Nationsi Defense anti later in NATO headquar- ters in Paris. He was caught :i:i