EXCHANGE STUDENTS SPIED FOR CIA, PRAVDA SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700530015-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2006
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: March 2, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For Release 2006/11/11: CIA-RbO'5-00149R00 00530015-4
MAR 2 1967
Exchange Students Spid
For CIA, Pravda -S s
MOSCOW, March 1-Pravda
charged today that the Central
Intelligence Agency has used
American students and pro.
'fessors working here as spies.
' The CIA, It 'said, "would
.like to replace the lofty cause
of cultural and scientific ? ex-
change with the dirty cause of
espionage.
United Press international,: viet. Communist Party, "far
ROBERT. F. ?BYRNES . from all American scientists
. aeoused by Soviets: and students who arrive in the
Sovlet Union are professional
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in
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nce
are 'volunteers' who took
upon themselves the fulfill-
limelight, although other parts
of the agreement have been'
the source ' of considerable
friction from time to time.
About 600 undergraduates
and graduate students and
teachers-300 from each side
-have been exchanged since
1958. The last two-year cultur-
al agreement was signed .In
April, 1966.
Among those accused by
Pravda as having worked for
the CIA are Prof. Robert F.
Byrnes of Indiana University,
chairman of the Inter-Univer-,
sity Committee on Traveli'.
Grants, which negotiates the' ;..
exchanges for the American`
side; Prof. Martin Malla of the;
University of California, and
by Pravda were.-Edward Kee