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September 2, 1982
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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
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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.
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