Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1982)
features Battalion/Page 15 September 2, 1982 Foreign spies outnumber FBI agents m no wki i few sect; iilence, tk how mutij shake a wav U : United Press International are hone WASHINGTON — Last year alone, 82,000 people from the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact »k$a\' countries and 130,000 Cubans t when ii entered the United States, iisover Among scientists, diplomats, tourists, seamen, students and of it, if; others, came spies, md Bla® They joined resident com- have changed all the codes and targeting for every one'of its Titan II ICBM missiles. Major Soviet KGB spies who work under diplomatic cover and have immunity are simply expelled after being caught red- handed. Some of them defect. Or they are quietly exchanged id for U.S. and Western miliarnrmunist diplomats, “news corres- caught by the Soviets. spies if it is dfpondents ’ and agents under sand deep cover. pod pars “We know some of them seek to collect sensitive information,” says FBI Director William Webster. Arkady Shevchenko, the U.N. undersecretary general who defected in 1978, has talked freely to reporters and to con gressional committees about Soviet espionage “in a nest of I The FBI is responsible for spies” — the United Nations. ^ counterintelligence — catching Some 500 Soviets work at the spies within the United States. -U.N. headquarters along with sold ins. The FBI’s big problem, offi- hundreds of Poles, Hungarians, cials concede, is its impossible Czechs, Romanians, Bulgarians mmadrtask of keeping track of all the and Cubans, whose intelligence canm spies and potential spies in a free services are under Moscow’s ;hind society with liberal immigration control. snatk anti visa policies and almost no Unlike Soviet and communist d. travel restrictions. diplomats in Washington and co'smmi Moreover, they say, foreign outlying consulates, whose busint'agents now outnumber FBI travel is regulated, U.N. diplo- igents and the gap is widening, mats are free to travel without ettineiia Robert Kinsey, former depu- restrictions, earb ty chief of the FBI’s Soviet desk. Diplomats from communist ir man said recently the number of countries based in Washington ) will di Soviet KGB agents in the United States “doubled in the last 10 years from 1970 Until I left in 1980." 1 “There was a time when I Pint was in the work where we could almost go one agent on me identified, suspected Soviet ntelligence officer,” he said. ‘When I left, quite the contrary vas true. We were vastly out- rumbered.” must get permission from the State Department for travel out side the capital. Certain areas near military bases and defense- related industries are off limits to them — but not to the U.N. people. Shevchenko told Indepen dent Network News that he had 13 Soviets in his U.N. secre tariat. “At least seven of them were professional KGB officers be- eratlOI 'M Webster said, “Our special are ui ,gent ranks are down almost 10 cause they didn’t do anything percent from where we were (for the U.N.),” he said. “They five or six years ago. Our budget didn’t receive orders from me as . l rf( sn’t keeping pace with inflation. a head of the department. They ^ en ,,.11-mi ■ ■ - received orders from their bos- I JL, n _ ses in the mission, from the KGB emewlf^ number of Soviet area resident.” eld, an KGB agents in the Un- Communist defectors have , „ . , , , • reported that more than half of Ited States doubled in t h e 100 Cubans working at the tolerance last 10 years from United Nations are members of ; 1970 until I left in 1980 ^dCubinDGMD^o^oi ... When I first was in Intelligence). There is also a eers thr u/nrk wr rnntrl Cuban Interests Section in plesdo*^ WOIK we COUlO Washington, half of whose Itomao apilOSt go one agent on members are said to be DGI rr - SOV ' et inteIU ~ ^"The State Department -|, foodjapnee 1 officer. When / announcedjulyhthattwomem- 'wnfiff, quite the contrary bers of the Cuban U.N mission preveffi ‘ 7 had been expelled tor trying to ig do* IfWe were vastly buy “large quantities” of high outnumbered. ” — technology electronics equip ment, which is barred lor export propw iltidi- Robert Kinsey, former to communist countries. '^"ydeputy chief of the com FBI’s Soviet desk. tion s ihei'i' . ... ... . Diplomatic status prevented ’ fr fom being prosecuted, a Department spokesman Vet, our foreign counter intelli gence assignment continues to grow both in scope and import- Ol* ance ” Still, the FBI is catching the most sophisticated Soviet spies \ r and their American dupes, in cluding former CIA agents and ationa) executives and workers in sensi- — ( live defense industries. But, nents even w hen caught, many get both State said. In February of last year, Ricardo Escartin, first secretary of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, was expelled. De scribed as a top DGI officer, he was charged with conducting in telligence activities and trying to get American businessmen to engage in illegal trade. Hardly a month passes with out a published espionage re port from somewhere in the na- and 2‘away because of legal technicali- tion 1 con 1 ties or diplomatic immunity, or re APbecause of U.S. fears of expos- ►vved ing secret information or reveal- 2parking to Moscow how much the sring FBI and CIA know about Soviet Spf' spy operations. vvith|r Webster told the story of Wil- t retrain Bell, 61, a pi^pct manager enny in the radar systWis group of ad a‘ Hughes Aircraft Co. in Los bare, Angeles, who was recruited by U.S. Army Warrant Officer undt Polish-Soviet intelligence to steal Janos Szmolka, who was work- documents. ing with the FBI, posing as a J “Bell testified to having been Hungarian agent. Gilbert was paid almost $ 170,000,” Webster caught passing $3,000 to Szmol- said. “For that sum, Bell sold out ka in exchange for bogus sec- his company and his country.” rets. On July 1, Otto Attilla Gil bert, a 50-year-old Hungarian, pleaded guilty in federal court in Augusta, Ga., to charges of conspiring to pass classified military documents to Hunga rian intelligence. He was sent enced to 15 years in prison. He had conspired with the wrong man, Hungarian-born U 7// J He was sentenced last December to eight years ih prison and fined $10,000. Marian Zacharski, 29, a Pole who came to the United States in 1977 as a commercial represen tative and recruited Bell, was sentenced to life imprisonment. , One American who admitted passing secrets to the Russians was U.S. Air Force 2nd Lt. hristopher Cooke, deputy mmander of a Titan II inter continental nuclear missile silo at McDonnell Air Force Base, who was arrested after he was seen visiting the Soviet embassy in Washington. Cooke confessed and was court-martialled. But because of an ambiguous promise he would be granted immunity, and be cause he had not been advised of his legal rights when arrested, he was discharged from the ser vice Feb. 22 and set free. What Cooke told the Soviets has never been disclosed. But the Air Force was reported to Szmolka, with the knowledge of the FBI and CIA, was re cruited by Hungarian intelli gence while visiting Budapest in 1977. But double-agentry works two ways. A number of former CIA agents have been caught working for the Soviets. David Barnett, a former CIA agent, was sentenced in federal court in Baltimore to 18 years imprisonment Jan. 8, 1981, af ter pleading guilty to charges that for $92,000 he passed to the Soviet KGB information about U.S. intelligence.operations and identified 30 American agents. Barnett had worked at the] CIA for 12 years before res igning in 1970. In January, 1979, he returned to conduct training programs until March, 1980. His espionage activities, according to his confession, be gan in 1976 while he was living in Indonesia. Here it is Aggies. W.E.A.’s roll in* in with the tunes!! ALBUMS & CASSETTES All Regular-Priced LPs and Cassettes in the Store are Sale-Priced at Tremendous Savings!! robert plant pictures at eleven including these new Warner, Elektra & Atlantic Releases wk/w ■ INCLUDES BURNING DOWN ONE SIDE SLOW DANCER/FAT LIP WORSE THAN DETROIT DON HENLEY I Can't Stand Still BAD COMPANY ROUGH DIAMONDS Mfg. List Sticker Price 8.98 $6"/$7 80 9.98 $ 7"/ $ 8 49 10.98 $ 949 11.98 $ 10 49 12.98 HI 4 ’ SALE Michael Mcfbo+uUA Includes I Keep Forgettin Playin' By The Rules If That's What It Takes 1^1 tar. 7.7J 9.99 INCLUDES CROSS COUNTRY BOY ELECTRIC LAND/OLD MEXICO At Prices Like These... What More Could You Want!! OuriLtf, BtclU. & flaAh. DAYLIGHT AGAIN INCLUDES WASTED ON THE WAY TURN YOUR BACK ON LOVE SOUTHERN CROSS FAST TIMES AT RIDGE MONT HIGH MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE Chicago 16 ® Hard lb Say Tm Sorry a What Can I Say WhatYbuVe Mlssing/Chalns Give the gift of music. STEVE WINWOOD TALKING BACKTOIHI NIGHT Indudcx Still In The Game f Valerie-Help Me Angel . BlftGIrltt Walk Away I ATLANTIC! "asylum 3 DAYS OHLYt Stacujlatthaw 7 SNEAKIN’OUT INCLUDES DONT THROW IT ALL AWAY ft I COULD LOVE YOU SO DIVINE ^ GUYS LIKE YOU (GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME) DON’T HISS OUT! (Sorry, No Wholesalers or Dealers Allowed) MffWkJgHBi mgf Jgr Jg CHHIHB 725-B UNIVERSITY DRIVE OPEN 10-10 " “Behind Skaggs & McDonalds” 846-1741