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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1980
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“There are roughly 27 indepen-
;nt states in Europe. Each has an
my and an air force and most have
•me sort of navy as well. For its own
•curity, each of those armies, air
rces and navies must know what
tch corresponding force of the
her 26 is doing — what its strength
, what its efficiency is, what secret
reparations it is making. That
leans spies. Armies of them,”
rites Eric Ambz, author of “The
[ask of Demitrios. ”
Hardly a month passes without a
ill
r ardly a month passes without a
>al life James Bond story sur
ging somewhere.
jal life James Bond story surfacing
•mewhere. Consider:
— November, 1979: The Soviet
ival attache in Paris is quietly ex-
dled for showing too much interest
French nuclear submarines.
— December, 1979: Stig Bergling,
!, gets life in jail for spying for Bus-
a within the Swedish defense
itablishment — a classic “mole us-
g microdots, invisible ink, all the
vorites of fiction.
—^February, 1980: Soviet diplo-
at Guenadi Traoko, 47, is picked
jin Marseilles, France, with secret
ipers concerning a new top-secret
;hter plane.
— Five days later and a country
vayjOleg Soranov, 42, manager in
jain for the Soviet airline Aeroflot,
forceably put on a Moscow-bound
ane after buying plans for aviation
ectronics from a Spanish intelli-
mce undercover agent.
— March, 1980: FBI officials un-
:il Rudolph A. Herrmann as a dou-
e agent, a high-ranking Soviet spy
the United States induced to turn
e tables and reveal to the Amer
icans the latest Soviet espionage
techniques.
Most of these cases were no big
deal. Chances are you heard little of
most of them.
Only the big ones make news. A
Sir Anthony Blunt, art advisor to Bri
tain’s Queen Elizabeth, revealed as a
one-time Soviet spy. Or a mass ex
pulsion like Sweden’s December de
portation of 24 Poles whose “route
maps” for selling art prints door to
door were curiously detailed about
military installations.
Spying is routine today.
Every country does it. Everybody
knows it. South Korea arrests nine
alleged North Korean spies and 15
accomplices, as it did Aug. 9, and
everybody yawns.
Yet a wide-ranging United Press
International survey indicates
spying is a boom business these days.
Spying itself may or may not be
increasing fast. By the secret nature
of the business, nobody knows. But
exposures of spying, the spies who
fail the first duty of espionage — not
to get caught — certainly are in-
“Roughly 80 percent of Soviet
diplomats belong to the KGB, ”
said a French intelligence
creasing.
Today or tomorrow, when the next
spy case breaks, consider this:
In great secrecy, 80 Egyptian
spies are smuggled into Aleppo,
Syria, in a ploy straight out of “Ali
Baba and the Forty Thieves” — each
spy bottled in a great earthenware
jar, one on each side of 40 donkeys.
Their spymaster was Thutmosis
III. He was Pharoah of Egypt 15 cen
turies before Christ.
Even he inherited an ancient tra
dition. When Egypt’s Pharoah
Menes formed Egypt’s first police
force 5,000 years ago, one of its spe
cific duties was to combat espionage.
The Bible says Moses sent spies into
the Land of Canaan.
Consider the famous names since
then: Nathan Hale, Mata Hari,
“Cicero,” Klaus Fuchs, Oleg Penk-
ovsky, Burgess and Maclean — and
In broad daylight, on a crowded
London street near Waterloo
station, a stranger jostled Bulga
rian exile Georgi Markov, 49.
Markov died. An autopsy re
moved from his thigh a metal
pellet... The pellet had held a
rare poison twice as deadly as
cobra venom.
Kim Philby. Today’s exposed spies
seem small beer by comparison.
Many of them seem to borrow
their tricks from ever popular spy
fiction.
A favorite ploy of the Bond breed
is to seduce a pretty secretary and
get her to steal secrets, right? An
East German spy did just that in De
nmark last year.
Fictional spymasters always worm
a “mole” into enemy ranks to burrow
from within, right? Eli Cohen was
planted within the top ranks of
Syria’s government and sent coded
radio messages packed with top-
secret information to his Israeli mas
ters until the Syrians caught and
hanged him.
Microdots? Witness Sweden’s
“mole” Bergling mentioned earlier.
Kidnapping? How about Kim Dae
Jung, who once ran for the presiden
cy of South Korea, snatched in Tokyo
and dragged back to Seoul.
Fictional secret services are fore
ver “taking out” or “wasting” defec
tors. And what ever did happen to
Kim Hyung Wook?
Kim once was chief of the Korea
Central Intelligence Agency. The
KCIA’s estimated 300,000 spies
make it one of the world’s most active
spy centers, called by a former U.S.
ambassador to Seoul “a state within a
state, a vast shadowy world of ...
bureaucrats, .intellectuals, agents
and thugs.”
Kim defected to the United
States, spilled the “Koreagate” busi
ness, then went to Paris to write a
book about the KCIA. One day last
October, leaving his luggage behind,
he walked out of his Paris hotel. He
has not been seen since.
When the real spy world gets dirty
it can be as chilling as anything John
le Carre ever wrote.
In broad daylight, on a crowded
London street near Waterloo sta
tion, a stranger jostled Bulgarian ex
ile Georgi Markov, 49. Markov died.
An autopsy removed from his thigh a
metal pellet smaller than a pinhead.
The pellet had held a rare poison
twice as deadly as cobra venom.
A similar case was reported in
Paris the same year. A month later
another Bulgarian exile in London,
Vladimir Simeonov, was found dead
at the foot of his bedroom stairs. He
might have fallen, and he might not.
Another mystery? Last March 17 a
Spanish employee of Aeroflot re
turned to Madrid from his first visit
to Russia. Two days later he was
found dead in his parked car. The
only mark on him was a small cut at
the back of his knee.
In the popular mind the Israeli
intelligence agency Mossad is rated
the world’s best, perhaps with such
exploits as the raid on Entebbe in
mind.
In the real intelligence world
everyone has a different “best.” ^
Some professionals rate the Rus-
sians, West Germans and English as
1, 2, 3. Others put the East Germans
at the top, with the Russians a close
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second. In most lists Russia is right
up there.
“Roughly 80 percent of Soviet di
plomats belong to the KGB,” said a
French intelligence source.
“However, this does not necessarily
mean they are all involved in
spying.”
China must be a target for every
body’s spies. But spy stories never
surface from China. Either its coun
terespionage people are superb or
there’s complete censorship.
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“We want high yield, low cost and
good reliability,” he said. “We want
the fish garden to work with the
vegetable garden. The fish would be
fed, to a large extent, vegetable
scraps,” . , v/
Provenzano believes there is a
ready-made market for the fish gar
den — families squeezed by soaring
food costs and concerned about che
micals in processed foods.
“During the past few years,
there’s been a tremendous amount of
interest by the American public ab
out increasing self-sufficiency,” he
said in an interview.
“More and more people are gar
dening. The fish garden would be a
natural extension. People could
grow their own fish — pollution
free.”
Backyard fish gardening has been
practiced for centuries in Europe
and Asia, but with fish being raised
primarily in natural or man-made
ponds.
Because most AmericahS doh’t
have land for a pond, Provenzano is
seeking a way to raise fish in a huge
aquarium-type setting — possibly
plastic swimming pools.
His goal is a do-it-yourself plan in
which an aquarium could be built
and equipped for under $500 and fish
harvested for “well under $1 per
pound. ”
Provenzano plans to apply for fed
eral grants, ranging from $10,000 to
$30,000.
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