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September 1966 Debriefing
Soviet Personalities
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Date acquired:
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September 1966
Viktor MARTYNOV
Age about 39-35. Not very tall. Rather French.
looking. He is a photographer for Novosti.
Source
met him through visitors from Paris Match, whom MARTYVOV
makes a practice of guiding around town. He has never
been stationed abroad but comes out to Paris once in a
while. The next time he comes he will look up Source.
He speaks very good French, and has a pleasing person-
ality. He is rather outspoken at times. For instance,
when someone said "bunch of stupid people" about the
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Soviets, WARTYNOV replied, "You're damn right." He
appears to be tempted by western living. lle concentrates
on the French. He is married to a nice girl with brown
hair and eyes.
They have children, but Source is not sure
whether one or two.
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Vladimir ZAKHAROV
About 40 years old, he is the administrator of the
Conservatory, and Source will see him in Paris when he
next goes there. He speaks very good Spanish, having
formerly been stationed in Buenos Aires as a cultural
☐ attache or something. He is probably a KGB officer, but
he works hard at his cover job. During a trip to Paris,
he called Source's father to arrange for the quick rent-
ing of two pianos for the orchestra he was with. He looks
like a frog and is rather bald, short, blond, with dark
blue eyes.
He is very friendly and accommodating, lively,
and nice. He goes out a lot, and sees a lot of foreign
colony, particularly Argentines and other Spanish speaking.
people. He is married and has a little boy called Emilyan.
He once invited Source to go to his dacha, but she didn't
have time. She intends to send him a postcard with her new
address.
1.
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Date Acquired: 13 August 1966
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Valeriy LEDNEV
Works for Sovietskaya Kul'tura.
Speaks no foreign
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languages. Blond, almost bald. Blue eyes, very nearsighted.
Wears glasses. Roman profile. A little plump. Tall. Formerly
stationed in Iran for TASS or Izvestiya. Source thinks un-
doubtedly KGB. A big flirt. Chases women. Likes to have a
good time. Knows the KORNGOLDS very well. Expects to come to
Paris for two weeks circa 15 September 1966, where he will con-
tact Source, who expects to take him to see some striptease
acts.
CO Comment: Attached are Headquarters traces on Subject.
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Valeriy Vadinovich LEDNEV
1. Subject, an IZVFSTIYA correspondent, was identified
as a good source of information for the American journalists
in Koscow who were suspected of having been recruited by the
KGB.
• 2. Although we have no record of his being stationed
abroad, Subject has made several visits to non-bloc countries.
In June-July he visited New Delhi and Fangkok. In December
1962 he visited Iran. While in Iran he was introduced as
IZVESTIYA's special correspondent. He corrected the
Individual who was making the introduction by saying that he
was an international observer.
3. Subject visited Turkey in April 1963. While in
Ankara he is reported as having participated in "propaganda
tactics" and made an "attempt to feel the pulse of the public"
as part of the Soviet efforts at that time to establish
closer relations with Turkey. During visits with various
heads of mass media organs he commented that while in Iran
he had written "friendly articles" which were well received
by the Iranians. As a result he was the first Soviet
journalist to be admitted to the oil regions of Abadan and
Ahvas.
4. LEDNAV is described as tall, balding dark hair, high
cheek bones, small mouth, wears clear plastic-rimmed glasses,
Smokes Kont cigarettes. He speaks English, but speaks better
German.
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Omar OUSSEDIK, Algerian Ambassador
He came to Moscow after the fall of Ben Bella. He
* is intelligent, but rather pro-Soviet. He was very active
in the FLN. He and his wife are both Kabyles, a non-Arab
tribe.
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Date acquired: September 1965
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_Frank BOURGHOLTZER, American NBC Correspondent, 1962-?
napakam After this tour in Moscow, BOURGHOLTZER returned to
Moscow without his wife, lived in a hotel, and went around
with a lot of Soviet girls.
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Date acquired: September 1966
Jose Antonio MENDIA, Counsellor (Cultural and Pross)
Argentine Embassy
•
He was chief correspondent of La Prensa in Paris
and married a Frenchwoman. Source thinks he is a likely
target of the KGB because he needs a lot of money. This
is because his wife is very snobbish and ambitious and
insists on buying quantities of expensive clothes.
MENDIA thinks he is shrewd, but he is not.
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Date acquired: September 1966
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J.A.L MORGAN, 1st Secretary, British Embassy
He had an affair with the ballerina PLISETSKAYA
eight or nine years ago, while previously stationed in
Moscow, and was kicked out of Moscow for it. However,
he is now married, apparently happily, and has three
children. He is a very bright and charming man who
speaks Mongolian and Chinese. He is a cultural officer,
but since these languages are rare among cultural offi-
cers, Source assumes that he is MI-6.
ام
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Date acquired: September 1966
KANTISOUL,
Huy KANTHOUL, Cambodia Ambassador
Very anti-American regarding the war in Viet Nam,
but doesn't like the Chinese. He hopes the Soviets will
'step up aid to Cambodia.
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Date acquired: September 1966
Catherine BARSACQ,, Secretary Archivist, French Embassy
She is young and speaks Russian well. She is the
daughter of the well-known French theatrical producer.
(?) Andre BARSACQ. She works in the cultural office of
I the Embassy. She goes out with Soviet men, one of them
Andre VOLKONSKY, the well-known pianist.
C.O. Comment: VOLKONSKY, as a teen-age boy, came
to the USSR after World War II with his father, who re-
patriated voluntarily from France. He was the target
of an SR/10 recruitment operation, since he groused
openly about his father's decision to leave France and
go to the USSR.
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Source: AEWIG AG/2
Date acquired: September 1966.
من
1.
Marina LOPOUKHINE, Secretary Archivist, French Embassy
This girl comes from a prominent family in imperial
Russia, now in the emigration in France. She resigned
to marry a Soviet (NU) who is a translator for the Mos-
cow News. She will stay in the USSR, but will retain
her French passport.
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Source:
ADWIGWAG/2
Date acquired: September 1966
Daniel PRIOLLET, Agence France Presse
in Moscow.
This is a very nice bachelor, who recently arrived
Source warned him against taking on Jean
RAFAELLI's Soviet girl-friend Olga Lnu, which he has not
donė. He has a girl friend, Gerda Lnu, who works as a
secretary at the West German Embassy. Source has abso-
lutely nothing against this girl, but she refugeed out
to West Germany from East Germany and still has relatives
there. She is unmarried, attractive, and goes out with
a lot of Americans (unspecified).
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Date acquired:
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September 1966
Georges BORTOLI, Representative of Radiodiffusion Tele-
vision Francaise (ORTF)
Ejen paika. His wife is an emigre Russian who thinks everything
is wonderful in the USSR and wrote an article to this ef-
fect in Paris Match, praising the wonderful Moscow markets.
BORTOLI is under his wife's influence, but Source does not
know his politics. (Source obviously was concealing some-
thing she knew about BORTOLI, as she sometimes does about
the French).
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Igor EITSINOS, Correspondent for Der Spiegel (West Germany)
1
His wife is a Soviet citizen, Jewish. He is a German
citizen, but of Latvian or Russian origin. They have been
in the USSR a long time. Source thinks his wife has been
allowed out. She doesn't know their political views.
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Date acquired: September 1966
George D. VARSAMY, Greek Ambassador
Looks like a peanut vendor. His wife is always
' covered with vulgar jewelry, and she looks like a mani-
curist. He endulges in a great deal of commercial oper-
ations (personal) buying and selling rugs, icons, etc.
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Date acquired: September 1966
Dimitri S. MANOLATOS, First Secretary, Greek Embassy 1963-?
rugs,
MANOLATOS conducted an extensive trade in icons and
far above the norm even for Greeks in Moscow.
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'Date acquired: September 1966
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Ahman MIRFENDERESKI, Iranian Ambassador
He is a very interesting character. His grandfather
was Ambassador to Russia before the revolution, and he
speaks extremely good Russian. He is a very sharp man
who knows a lot of Soviets, and has excellent rapport
with them because of his language and open manner. In his
diplomatic pose, he doesn't seem to be anti-Sovict, but
Source does not know his true feelings on that score.. He
is not anti-American, although he sometimes considers some
American actions stupid. He is married, but his wife is
often out of Moscow. He is able to stand a lot of liquor.
C.O. comment: AEPASSIVE stated that the Ambassador had
some of his primary education in Russia and confirmed his
expertise in the language and knowledgeability, but stated
definitely that the ambassador is 100% anti-Soviet.
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Source:
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Date acquired:
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Giovanni MIGLIUOLO, Counselor, Italian Embassy
Married to a Czech. They both speak fluent Russian,
English, German, French, and Italian. He married his
wife while stationed in Prague. He is a very bright, in-
telligent man, whom Source regards as an intelligence of-
ficer. He is tremendously interested in politics, and is
a Kremlinologist.
the Soviets.
1.
Source does not know his attitude toward..
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Dino CAPELLO,
Dino CAPELLO, Italian Counsellor (Commercial)
He is from Sicily and is a member of the Mafia.
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September 1966
✓ LUCCAN, Fau
A correspondent for an Italian paper, age about 42,
who lives in Source's building. (Not listed Information
Moscow). He has been in Moscow for at least ten years'
and is married to a Soviet woman. They have two children.
His Soviet wife has a miserable life and never leaves the
apartment. He is always out, hanging around the Hotel 1
National bar, trying to make friends with businessmen and
journalists. He is a crashing, insensitive, boor and bore.
He drinks a lot and probably goes out with girls. He comes
to a lot of cocktail parties without an invitation, always
without his wife, whom Source has never seen. He has another
wife in Italy, which causes him serious financial problems,
'but in spite of this he has a very expensive apartment. He
speaks Russian, French, and English, and occasionally makes
"anti-Soviet remarks. Source is certain he is a KGB agent
because of his Soviet wife, his need for money, his exen-
sive apartment, and the way he operates in trying to make
contacts and crash parties.
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Source:
AEWIGPAG/2
Date acquired: September 1966
29201-271372
Kanane TAKAHASHI, business representative of International
(Japanese firn)
"This man is about 55 and lived in China for a long
time.
He married a White Russian girl from Harbin. They
left Shanghai in 1951, which Source considers strange, i.e.
it would have been normal for them to leave in 1949 when
the Communists took over. They have a son in the United
States who is married, and possibly a daughter there as
well. They have another daughter, unmarried, Svetlana
TAKAHASHI, who lives in Japan. Source met her by chance
at Orly airport and also in Moscow. She is a beautiful
girl, half Japanese and half Russian. She speaks good
Russian, as does her father. Her mother, TAKAHASHI's
wife, is in Japan. TAKAHASHI also speaks Chinese and
poor English. He has a lot of Soviet contacts. Source
thinks he is probably somebody's agent, theirs or ours,
probably ours and/or the Japanese. A curious and inter-
esting man.
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- Date acquired: September 1966
Edward GHORRA, Lebanese Ambassador, 1960-63
GHORRA's wife was an American who had an antique
"shop in New York City. The two of them made a great
deal of money in a three-way antique business, Moscow-
✓ ✓ Lebanon-New York, using their diplomatic privileges.
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Date acquired: September 1966
H.
Hassine EL GHOUYEL, Tunisian Counsellor
Drinks a tremendous lot. Source saw him dead drunk
at the British Club. He stayed at the Ukraina Hotel with-
out his family for a while. The police took his car keys
away so he couldn't drive in a drunken condition.
He is
a very weak man.
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Date acquired: September 1966
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Yusuf Abd-al-Aziz SHARARA, First Secretary, UAR Embassy
•
He has a very good looking wife, for which reason
he is always invited out in ambassadorial circles, which
he normally would not be in. Source instinctively thinks
he is an intelligence officer, without being able to say
why..
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CANADIAN
Position (Jan 65):
Mr. Robert A. DFORD
Ambassador, Canadian Embassy, Moscow, USSR
Closest English speaking friend of SOURCE in Moscow. Anti-'
Gaullist in outlook but otherwise quite "French-friendly."
Is
a cripple but often tries to take a few steps on the dance floor.
'Suffers from Polio. Former university professor in Canada
:
(mödieval history) before becoming diplomat. Wife is the most
charming ambassador's wife in Moscow. She was introduced to FORD
by the former Brazilian ambassador to Moscow (currently the
Brazilian foreign minister) when the latter served at the UN in
New York as a member of Brazil's delegation. The Fords are very
much in love with each other and arẻ a fine couple. Mrs. Ford
is the best dressed, most cultured woman in town, also has the
best jewels. Her name is Terese. Both speak good Russian and he
is probably one of the most competent ambassadors in the Soviet
Union. Mrs. Ford is a particularly close friend of the Israel
Tambassador Mr. TEKOAH.
DATE ACQUIRED : September 1966.
He is very pro-American.
.15. SEP 1966.
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MUGBOOK Debriefing
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Date Acquired:
13 August 1966
MUGBOOK Debriefing
c. o. Comment: The following information is the result of a
hurried debriefing which lasted one hour only.
**
Previously identified by Source, not yet in new book..
I
#1
(SAMOYLOV, Nikolai A.)
Nothing to add. Has not seen in a long time.
(ZARUBINA, Zoya V.)
#4
#5
Has something to do with the press or Inturist.
Speaks French.
(TOCHILIN, Sergei)
Has seen, but remembers nothing.
(MEDVEDEV, Vladimir A.)
Source remembers this man, because he is a dead
ringer for Kosygin. The picture is a good like-
"
ness, although he now has somewhat less hair. He
is about 55, is dark and of medium height.
(KHARLAMOV, Mikhail A.)
12 v má ka që
This is a good likeness. He is of medium height,
with a "typical Soviet figure." Nothing more
:
remembered.
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#6
#8
#9
(SHIBAYEV, Pyotr A.)
Sourco does not remember seeing this man.
(KOBYSH, Vitally)
Source has not seen this man.
(NOSENKO, Yuriy A.)
Source has never seen this man, nor #192 in
regular Mugbook.
(VLADYKIN, Nikolai A.)
Source had difficulty identifying this picture.
Said she hardly knows this man.
II
New Mugbook:
#13 and #60
Previously identified by Source
(SUNTSOV, Aleksei V.)
Source has never seen this man.
#25
(PETROV
#27
Vladimir I.).
Source has never seen this man.
(SHUBNYAKOV, Fyodor G.)
#32
The picture looks familiar to Source, but she can
state nothing about the man.
(SUMSKOY, Mikhail M.)
Source has never seen this man.
#34
(SHCHERBAK, Fyodor A.)
Source definitely has seen this man, but can say
nothing about him, other than that he is about
fifty, stout, upper medium height, and she saw him
at the 14th July French reception, 1966.
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#37
(FEDYANIN, Vladimir P.)
Source does not recognize this man.
#40, 93, 138, 172 (PANASENKO, Ivan A.)`
#49
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#40: Source thinks this man has something to do
with the military; she has seen him with military
attaches.
#93: No recognition.
Aga
#138: This man is from the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, speaks a lot of languages, including
English and French. He is a good-looking, charming
man, about 38-40 years old, 178 cm. tall, well
built. She saw him at the 14th July French recep-
tion, 1966.
(SUNTSOV, Aleksandr V.)
.
Source did not recognize this picture.
#72
(KURILENKO, Ivan P.)
At first Source did not recognize this picture.
later said she had seen him during the de Gaulle
She
:
#97
visit and at various national day parties.
(DITYATYEV, Dmitriy A.)
Source did not recognize this picture.
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#101
(GLAZUNOV, Ilya S.)
Source recognized this picture by name. GLAZUNOV
is about 35; the picture is a good likeness but
makes him look too healthy. He looks like an
"uncooked spaghetti," pale complexion, thin, short.
He speaks Italian. Source considers GLAZUNOV not
intelligent, and entirely too eager to mix.with
foreigners. Source sent the Canadian, Benoit de
Margerie, to GLAZUNOV when the Canadian was interested
in having his portrait painted. GLAZUNOV's wife (NU)
is about thirty, has long dark hair;
is very
intelligent.
#106
(SHVARTS, Ilya P.)
Source did not recognize this picture.
#122
(FILIPPOV, Grigoriy A.)
Source did not recognize this picture.
#163
(GUK, Yuriy I.)
#192
Source stated she may possibly have seen this man
a long time ago at a diplomatic party.
(NOSENKO, Yuriy 1.)
Source did not recognize this picture, nor #8 in
Section I.
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New Mugbook:
#5
new identifications..
(FEDYANIN, Vladimir P.)
Source has seen this man but could not remember
anything about him.
#20 and #76 (ALYOSHIN, Yevgeniy N.)
t༧ag མ --ག16-26¢ ?
Source thought these two pictures might be of her
husband's "friend", meaning the case officer who
keeps dogging him, turning up at the next seat in
the theatre, etc. She said she would check with
her husband as to this man's name, and ask him for
details. She said she already discussed this
"friend" during the last debriefing. He poses as
a history professor.
#39 and #63
#61
(ZHUKOV, Georgiy A.)
•
Source identified this picture as that of Yuriy
ZHUKOV, either TASS or MFA press department man
F
She last saw him at the farewell party for Source
and her husband at their embassy. She could not
remember anything else about him, but promised to
ask her husband, who, she knows, hates him for some
reason.
(ZAITSEV, Lev N.)
Source identified this picture as that of a Novosti
man, or at least a journalist. He is about 35,
tallish, good looking. Speaks French. Has been.
abroad. Deals with foreign journalists.
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#125
(LOUIS,
Viktor)
Source identified this picture as Viktor LOUIS.
There was no time to update her previous informa-
tion. She made the remark that she was sorry to
see him in such sorry company, meaning in the
Mugbook.
•
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Date Acquired:
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Tatyana PHILIPOV or PHILIPOVA
Has an American passport. She was employed by Waldemar
VICHNEVSKY, AFP correspondent in Moscow, as a governess for his
children. Source claims Subject was a bad children's nurse and
VICHNEVSKY wanted to fire her. She always goes
very stupid.
around with Soviet men. She went off for a three day weekend
and was gone for eight days. VICHNEVSKY reported this dis-
appearance to the French Embassy.
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1965 and 1966 Debriefings.
U.S. Citizens in Moscow
SX-48-6 (65) 74-6-630/3
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SOURCE
: AEWIGWAG-2
DATE ACQUIRED : September 1966
American Intelligence Officers in Moscow
During the debriefing, Source was encouraged to state which
diplomats in Moscow she thought were intelligence officers,
including the Americans.
Source said she and her husband had wondered about which
Americans were intelligence officers and had come to the
conclusion that the following Americans were:
Roger Kirk
Alan Logan
Abraham Katz
Their reasons for picking Logan and Katz are contained in the
individual reports on these two gentlemen.
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Mr. Peter GROSE
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NEW YORK TIMES
Position (July 1965):
Chief, New York Times Bureau in Moscow;
USSR
Appears to be a very intelligent chap, new on the scene
in Moscow. Getting married to a 19 year old girl. He is Jewish.
DATE ACQUIRED : September 1966.
The
He married an American girl who appears to be of good family.
She is expecting a child and has been very sick during her
pregnancy, so they both stayed home. Normally they give
occasional cocktail parties with a lot of Soviets present.
only Soviet friend of theirs that Source knows about is (Fņu)
Shnirson, a music critic. They are friendly with the Loorys
(NY Herald Tribune) and Hughes Rudd (CBS).
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LIFE MAGAZINE
Mr. Robert BRIGHAM
Position (Jan 65):
Correspondent for LIFE MAGAZINE in Moscow
USSR
No Comments
SOURCE only knows him slightly.
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Hr. Adam CLYNER'
Position (JAN 65):
BALTIMORE SUN
Correspondent for BALTIMORE SUN in Moscow,
USSR
Called "head of the calf" (French expression) because he
accident-prone.
Sad such
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UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
Mr. Nicholas DANILOFF
Position (Jan 65): Member, UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Bureau in
Moscow, USSR
Very nice, intelligent man. Not Jewish. Overworked by
SHAPIRO, who tends not to like him. Very sick when he left
Moscow (ca. March/April 65). Saw a good many Russians and
tended to be well informed. Has good promise as a journalist.
Elove to
Которова.
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NEW YORK TIMES
Mr. Henry TANNER
Position (Jan 65): Chief, New York Times Bureau in Moscow, USSR
Peggy Tanner, secretary-archivist in the Danish embassy, is
TANNER's wife. Terribly intelligent and good-hearted.individual.
Both SCURCE and SOURCE's husband like them a lot. Remarkable
thing about TANNER is that he never gets mad and is always
smiling, even when things are most trying. Appears to be a very
good, happy marriage. Both are first class people. Neither is
Jewish. Transferred to Paris in the late spring of 1965.
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Mr. Theodore SHABAD
Position (Jan 65): Member, New York Times Bureau in Moscow, USSR
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Most Jewish type of Jew in the entire Moscow press corps
(exactly what SOURCE means by this hard to pind down but would
appear she means he keeps to his own co-religionists, and does
not mix with others.) Lives in the same entryway as SOURCE.
***Did not like TANNER (Bureau Chief) and TANNER felt the same way
about him. Has a stupid wife who talks too much at parties.
DATE ACQUIRED : September 1966.
Shabad's wife had a nervous breakdown and left Moscow.
& How To
be
JEWISH Mother
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America House Club
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UNITED STATES
SOURCE comments this is little more than a brothel where
by the lower echelons of the foreign diplomatic colony arrange
trysts. There is a great deal of passing whiskey and cigaretts
here, particularly among the foreign service personnel (maids,
etc) of members of the diplomatic corps. At least within the
French embassy the general feeling is that one should stay away
from the place, since no diplomats of status go there, except:
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on rare occasions (an especially good film). The enlisted
American military personnel are known to use the facilities of
the club to shack up with foreigners.
DATE ACQUIRED:
SEPTEMBER 1966
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measures which have been introduced in controlling the people
who may enter. It has now become chic and even ambassadors go
there.
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Mr. Marshall BREMENT
Position (Jan 65): Second secretary, US Embassy in Moscow,
USSR
SOURCE speculates B. may be an intelligence officer because
of the penetrating questions he asks. Also he appears to be
far better informed than the run-of-the-mill American foreigo
service officer. Has a good memory and speaks some Chinese.
Wife is socially cautious.
DATE ACQUIRED: SEPTEMBER 1966
He drinks and flirts.
His wife is very jealous.
He loves
girls but Source does not think he goes around with Soviet girls.
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Abraham KATZ
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Position (Jan 65):
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First secretary, US Embassy, Moscow, USSR
SOURCE and her husband see more of KATZ and his wife at
than almost any other Americans of the US embassy. He is quite
sharp and intelligent and SOURCE's husband has a high professional
regard for him.
DATE ACQUIRED: SEPTEMBER 1966
Source's husband thinks he is an intelligence officer because
of his position in the Embassy.
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NEWSWEEK
Mr. Robert KORENGOLD
Position (Jan 66):
:
Correspondent for NEWSWEEK Magazine in Moscow,
USSR
SOURCE and SOURCE's husband like the K's a lot, they are
clever people and both well informed. Has good Soviet contacts
and digs out the news through them. Both speak good Russian.
He goes by the name of "Bud". Both are Jewish.
DATE ACQUIRED: SEPTEMBER 1966
Wife is French and would be a very good source for infor-
mation on the nefarious activities of third nationals in Moscow.
She is not Jewish as previously stated.
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Mr. Alan LOGAN
Position (Jan 85): Second secretary, US embassy, Moscow, USSR
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A too serious type, wife never smiles. Very impressed with
his position in the embassy” a "heavy" person. Both drink a
good deal and only after they've had a few drinks do they let
their hair down. His wife is French. SOURCE sees them at a
number of American and British parties. Frequently present at
African parties, since he is embassy officer responsible for
African affairs. Wife is a bore.
DATE ACQUIRED: SEPTEMBER 1966
: .
Source and her husband think LOGAN is an intelligence
officer because the Soviets are very interested in him and
publicized him as a spy for his interests in Africans in
Moscow. After this article, the Africans stopped seeing
LOGAN. He was very well liked however.
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NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE
Mr. Stuart H. LOORY
Position (Jan 65): Chief New York Herald Tribune Bureau in
in Moscow, USSR
Both LOORY and his wife are Jewish. SOURCE considers
them nice but does not see a very great deal of them socially.
DATE ACQUIRED:
SEPTEMBER 1966
Has problems with his job because of the closing down of
the New York Herald Tribune.
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Mr. Roger A. PROVENCHER
Position (Jan 65); Second secretary, US embassy in Moscow, USSR
They are the most socially adept members of the US embassy.
They entertain well and their parties are fun. They both dance
well.
She serves wonderful buffets. She is French. Has visited
SOURCE's father in Paris on one occasion.' SOURCE has had the
Provenchers to her apartment about 15 times (since Oct 62). SOURCE
speculates Provencher may be an intelligence officer based on
the fact that he has "too good" an apartment for his rank and
more care is taken of him than of Mr. Logan in the political
section..
DATE ACQUIRED:
SEPTEMBER 1966
Source says her husband has changed his mind about PROVENCHER's
being an intelligence officer.
Moscow.
Possibly he is one,
but not in
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Mr. Stephen ROSENFELD
Position (Jan 65): Correspondent, WASHINGTON POST (USA) in Moscow
USSR.
Noted for fact that he has a very large apartment by Moscow.
standards.
Wife knows what she wants and gets it from the UPDK
by constant badgering of this office.
Lives in same block with
SOURCE but entryway three. Wife was in Moscow before as a single
girl correspondent. They both speak very good Russian.
Both
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are Jewish.
DATE ACQUIRED: SEPTEMBER 1966
Source heard no comments from the Sovicts about ROSENFELD's
PNG for the Washington Post publication of the Penkovskiy Papers
Third National Colonies also had no comments but were very sorry
for ROSENFELD.
bun
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UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL (UPI)
Mr. Henry SHAPIRO
Position (Jan'65): Chief, UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Bureau in
Moscow, USSR
SOURCE and SOURCE's husband like S. He is Jewish, sharp
Knows a tremendous amount
and quick, speaks excellent Russian.
about
Russian, , very well informed. SOURCE speculates SHAPIRO
¡!
I may have helped the Russians in the past (she means the RIS)
but does not think he has to now that he has established himself.
SOURCE comments that SHAPIRO, like all Western press people have
to be extremely careful what they file, otherwise they will be
thrown out of the SU. This is very
true in SHAPIRO's case, since
i
he married to Soviet national who might not be able to leave with
him if he were thrown out. Most noteable thing about SHAPIRO
i
is his very extensive contacts in the dip circuit - Henry literally
knows everybody worth knowing. On very good terms with past US
ambassador (Thompson). Probably because of religious bonds, he
is also on very good terms with current Israeli ambassador.
DATE ACQUIRED : September 1966.
Shapiro hates to spend money. He is very hard on his assistants,
'and very quick-tempered. He hates Edmund Stevens and his wife.
He is close to the Austrian ambassador (Walter Wodak), the Italian
ambassador (Federico Sensi) and the Norwegian ambassador (Frithjof
Jacobsen). Recently Shapiro decided to do a story on the prostitutes
who hang out at the Hotel National. He sent someone to interview
some of these girls. As a result he was attacked in Pravda.
Shapiro was terribly upset at this, almost crying. He is normally
a very careful man. He knows all the Soviet journalists well,
and possibly cooperates with them. T
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NEWSDAY
Correspondent for NEWSDAY (USA) in Moscow,
Position (Jan 65):
USSR
Neither SOURCE nor SOURCE's husband like. Drinks a
especially early in the morning
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iot,
often drunk, and when so tends
to make stupid remarks. However, terribly well informed about
what is going on in the Soviet Union, in fact one of the best
informed Western correspondents in Moscow. He has a find collection
of modern paintings. SOURCE believes he probably works for the
.
KGB, since he openly involved in black marketing, selling of
ikons, and always seems to have more than enough money. He is
the type who would sell his sould for .cash. Daughter now in Rome
trying to become a movie actress. She was formerly a student
She was something
at the Bolshoi Theater, studying ballet.
of a whore and slept with a number of Russians.
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Date Acquired: September 1966
STEVENS' wife told Peter GROSE of the New York Times that
she was buying up paintings from Soviet artists and reselling
them for a profit. Source considers Mrs. STEVENS a real bitch.
STEVENS argues with her a lot. Source thinks he is no longer
capable of having a sex life. Source has no doubts that he
works for the KGB.
He
STEVENS' contacts in the foreign colony are extensive.
sees most of the important ambassadors, including KOHLER (US),
HARRISON (UK), and SENSI (Italy). Among the many Americans he
sees are GUTHRIE and ARMITAGE.
The only Soviet contacts of the STEVENS whom Source knows
are figures from the artistic world: musicians MOISSEYEV and"
KAGAN, and the ballerina PLISETSKAYA.
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General Comments:
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Embassy officers all believe they are very
important people by virtue of the fact that the Department sent
them to Hoscow to represent the States. They try to impress
everybody with their position and with their knowledge of Soviet
affairs (which is not too good in the first place). They tend
to live a gotto-like existence, do not wis with other members of
the dip set. Stay at home or in the embassy and do not get out
around in the city. From a social point of view they are for
the most part boring only wish to talk business and office
politics. No lightness of sense for "things gay." Heavy. Do
not have many of the social graces, do not dance well, do not
play cards vell, etc. Wives are poor dressers and can not cook!..
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UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL (UPI)
Mr. Jordan AXELBANK
Position (Jan 65): Member, UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Bureau,
in Moscow, USSR
"Jay" is stupid, more so than average press correspondents.
Not intellectually quick. SHAPIRO runs rings around him.
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Capt. James W. BIZZELL, USAF
Position (Jan 65):
Assistant air attache (medical), US Embassy,
Moscow
SOURCE is very fond of Dr. Bizzell and considers him an
excellent doctor, especially for children. Much more friendly
than this predecessor. SOURCE gave Dr. Bizzell the name of her
sister (UNSOX 10) and suggested he look her sister up when he
went to Paris on vacation. The sister would show him around
SOURCE does not know whether Dr. Bizzell contacted her
sister. Mrs. Kohler is very fond of him. Bizzell used to squire
young Miss. Stoessel around town. Dances well; plays good bridge.
Paris.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP)
Mr. Henry 8... BRADSHER
Position (Jan 65):
Chief of the ASSOCIATED PRESS Bureau, Moscow,
USSR
SOURCE and SOURCE's husband do not like B: Consider him
rude, barbarian. He is a very nervous wao. Tries very hard.
(but does not make the grade) to keep up with chief AFP man.
(ULIMAN) and chief UPI man (SHAPIRO).
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Mr. Sam JAFFE
Position (Jan 65): Representative, AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANY
in Moscow, USSR
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8am and June are attractive people and SOURCE would like to
become more friendly with them. However, neither SOURCE nor her
husband trusts the JAFFES completely in their view something
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about them does not add up. JAFFE good newspaper man
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knows how
to ask questions that will get news. SOURCE feels she has to
watch what she says to JAFFE, lest he uncover some of her husbands
"sources" for news. JAFFE does a good job, knows the ropes of
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his profession and is a thoroughly competent journalist. Knows
a great many Russians and now has very good contacts with the
North Vietnamese - this rather unusual for an American correspon-
dent in Moscow. Both are Jewish.
His Soines news confects?
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Mr. Foy D. KOHLER
Maition (Jan 65):
US Ambassador in Moscow, USSR
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SOURCE wonders why, in view of his position, Mr. Kohler
bas a Chinese cook she thinks this is a poor security practice.
SOURCE knows of no specific things about the ambassador's
cook which would make him a security risk other than his
The fact that the American ambassador has a
uationality.
Chinese cook is often the subject of conversation on the Moscow
Wife has no taste in clothes.
Jip circuit.
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Mr. Walter J. STOESSEL, Jr.
Position (Jan 65): US Minister-Counsellor in Moscow, USSR
1.
The STOESSELS tried to entertain in a grand way but were
obivously anateurs. They would serve entirely too much liquor
before dinner and get their guests potted. Their food at dinners
was indifferent though of good quality. They did serve good
French wines. One got the impression Mrs. STOESSEL did not take
too many pains in planning and serving her dinners. She has a
terrible cook. SOURCE entertained the STOESSELS in her home on
about 10 occasions (from Oct 62 to the time the STOESSELS left).
Wife dresses badly, even worse than Mrs. Kohler.
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Mr. Malcolm TOON
Position (Jan 65):
UNITED STATES
Counsellor for political affairs, US Embassy,
Noscow
Socially better than most of the US Embassy personnel.
Wife dresses badly.
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