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DISPATCH Chlef, na ; : : Chief, gh (ATTN: mnermen G. CUSICK) Chief, »g (ATTN: Leonara ». SACKETP) GAL _ Chief of Ration, Gurmany * ag ry 1962 ADMIN LSTHATIVE OnE One) Handling of a Soviet Defester |_| MARKED FOr ROOWNG Sd actions SNOOUNG CAN 6 JUDGED See veles. || GY QUAURED HO. DESK ONLY 1 1. 2 suggest that the story of AZLADLE, from the scment ne walked iate the home, of Martia A. KOODIMK wotis be was safely under aLlusha custody im tie Laited States, deserves compiling, analyaia, ami publicatiom im the fore of an Uperge. . tiomal Ald. Jt riehly ii lustrates the ssay prebleas «nich oust and saa be sure ouumted, and equlé be nighiy lastrustive te Calefe of Station ia all emmtrics unsere the a.ut Goviet aefcator aignt appear. “@. Here is the Frankfurt contribution (written at ay request) to euch & compilation:  eliffhanger from etart to finian, but alse e Suneentary em tne many types of preblegs hich can arise, and toe fect timt.1¢ taxes hard scrk-and - - @kiliful laprovieation to salve tnes. it was @ ollffnaoger botn befere aad after the Frankfurt chapter (1 suminate MOUDINE for @ medal for his part) and ougnt te @eke excellent readiag. , Od . . : . de The handitagiof defeatere ebvicusly te not a new responsibility te tne Geruan Station, The (Cfiicz OMZ fmeility wnich existe primarily fur the reseipt, . eotablianaent ef bona fides, deuriefing, and resettiasent of delectors bas exiated here for the last decade. Hor ie the movenant by blaca.cvacuation-of.-cperations! - personnel a unique task for us tc perform. We live gavempliehed this many tines by use of cur. ow, integrated WUNIT facility and also by the furnisning ef alias documentation to the person of interest and acooaplinning the transpert via scheduled MATE flighta. The aigificont points whieh cade tne ABRLADLE gase unique . may Rever again im their entirety be duplicated but in part they gay well be, aaé therefore ghould be coumerated: @ & Soviet dipiemmt, and mexwber of the KIS, stationed im a none _ Satellite but politically sensitive coumtry, whieh at the tine cf AELADLE's Gefection was wider conaiderable Soviet pressure. b&b Fhe fact that the aotual cirewantenses ueneermine Kir .3¢ of ‘ Gefeotion were such that an temedicte desieion by 25 am Of tue seene aod to bo made te take advantage of the opportunity. @. The fact that little alterzative sould be given, under the facts &8 described in (2) above, exsept to believe the defeator'n statenents amd soquiesse in hie demamia, i.e., he possessed information of a significant eaé perishable nature and would disglose it coupletely only upom arrival ia the United States. - : ad. The fect that ance the commitments in (co) above wore aade every reasonable effort hed to be made to eccomodate the defector's demand. — _ ein order to accompligh all this an untried mathed of evacuation, 1.0., black evacuation via commercial airoraft had to be accomplished in erder to supcessfully proceed with the undertaking, ‘ . os 4. A retrespective analysis ag to how tiie case comensed, and the unique | fastere connecte4 with it Simeratea above, lasd me to suggest for Headquarters etudy wheat 1 refer to as “Yindings” and “areas of atudy,” thet 1 have leteles aa. *rindings® in effeet represent facts hich, Lo not Druseit, quite probably #ovld tave deprived ue im uurmany uf partieipet ine suscsasfully i the movement of the ARLADIB family. The "areas of atudy," on tha other hand, repregent aither anseere able questions or mattera in areas snerein operational dlsquss } ions may well take piace to nee if same type of seheel-bock sclution ean be devised, . come of these “findings” but _ Soopy OPPO yan a lade 5. Z.wili elaborate below, where appropriate, on will f iret record thems oo tages Sf nly. b=] 5 ect ene ON Pree ESE afer ESSE eter eter tes a * ef
8 “ Gertain degree put bis position in jeopardy by being @8 Gooperative on tue aatter aa. : — TASS Can re Pace f oBca ame eS CONTINUATION OF . 34 C8 EF i . . “a OISPATCH RY BA? Eo JP-ieae, AL dammry lye &. Tr@ elsdom vf AuAkK mpinteliniog is tia Buropeas area at least one ‘ield installation heaving assigned ts it persumel representiag tua memy euapetenc ies pecessary .@ ti intelligence usierlakiag is been recw. firmed. 2. The sledes of cltaining approgriate security ciesiances, and having Stations Grief ami mae «sitting of at least an AiS contact, tio :esigent senior United States citisem poresmmel of Lmitea States flag air carriers upers ting witain any Station's area. ; e. Tne fallacy cof depemiiag on aargiaal or cbeolescent ecuipmant to eccomplian sempitive taaae of nign pracrity. we here refer to ij-year C->4 aire ereit. G. & remlizstion that a retic esists oetecen the puter of pple ande @zere of @ given uuiertaking im relation te tos obstacles encountered im suseesee feliy ecccmp.ieniag treat undertaking. . 6. A feu cords of elaboration are in order on tne four pruncading pulste. Because the initial endeavor at olack evacumtian ly AoARA aircialt averted, ve o@re given an opportumity to see with great ciar.ty the apsileatian of t::ese acigte. Uf the @ttempt to evacuate by Alawink-easigned aircraft bad been successful, then. ; kmewledge of tne defection could nave teen ieid to apprenimeteiy ais staff and ogaigned ailiteary personnel. ecvause tnat emlesver uae unsuccesaiul, at least nine additional etarf and a:iitary pe:ecannel..became-guasially or epecifieaily eeare of tne a@atter, plus the Comeul General and one of hie senior uffieers. Additionally one private United States citizen, tne sesior Pan Ameriean official in rreakfurt, besame very gush @eare of (nig sensitive cease. Thie ingreass im tle numosr of iadividuale 68me about ‘ ef am iaasdiate need Jate im Use evening of Saturday, 16 Decesber, te use tro(C OMB etatfere to aasiat in the ssfenousing function, a tutal of alz FRPOPAL etaffere (deswmentation, graphics, photegraphie) to prepare and issus. SrG@mluleat emi alies paaspurte, ami an aseigned enlisted man to ect as @ eafenouse Guard. The Cunsulate Jenerel ved to affix vless to tue framtulent passports, - The Geet erwoial ladividual iavolved; however, wea the Pan American effieial we to & he wha. \itnout previously-having ¢leared-and briefed this official. {Mie sounter= part in TA ie alee ge cleared and briefed) the aisle umiertaking would nave been presleded. It would Lave been lapoasible te asconpliah departure without décounenta« tien .om & commercial aircraft. without the connivance of the casmercial airline . imvelved. Indeed witn susn cunmivance it wae difficult and risky enough. Finally, the point concerning chsclicacont equipuent speaks for iteeif. lieadquarters is fully Quare of the feelings of thie Station comeerning tue inadegusey fer cur purpones of assigned aircraft. Suffice it te aay that «hen defectors apparently of signifi cant value refuse te ride such alreraft <. aatter merite therougt study, Fe The matter of “areas of stuiy” appears to ua to oncompass at lesst tue Pallevinss i @. Average tive differences in transmitting high precwaence eigctrical gemmmtiestions betvesn ana seang representative groupiogn of station. Toe Gerean Station 1a extremely fortunate in nawing Aweou clreuita vita sioad~ quarterg. It afforde ua @ facility for inatenteanevwus ccommenication. #¢ oan gake cortaia rough eatisates aa to hos long it might take eyorcerinte leade quarters offleiala to anewer cur queries and we cam then appraaiasts the @rrival tine of ansnera to high precedence traffic, Otner Statians, however, Go not have KW-26 equipment, all do not have the same type of oryptological | Gquipment, and there ia @ different pattern as to the type of ciroultry, 1.65, @ireat leased Lines, twx, gtratent qomeercial servies, ete. wa Solicva thezvs fe werlt in the eopropriate Neadquarters unit eisleavoring to group geegrapie- Seally Statione and them based on the tyse cof cummunluatians ard ‘eepptuiogiaal @quipment and the chanel of trenemiasion to cose up with predictions ag to the average length of time the transmlagion of @ priority or operational iamediate cable would take oet«cen and among the varisus representative groupings. in the case under. atudy, «iloh represented @ rather fast-breaking ‘eitustion, 4% .as not pussibls. for us to ealimie the jearth of tine 1% tsok - $o transmit an cperatignel lemediate cable natsocn{ pa Frankfurt. 3% Wold Have been of value to vs to have had sone LG BL uGT e be Cuonlinativa between U8. Air Atteuhog ant CUS, te velieve it would be wortimhile to cequest each Chief of Statian in a location «nore tne Air pORM 98 PREVIOUS FOITION, & FAQE NG. 1 BEPLACES FORD gs ‘Be R 4 © mo x fe nee cr ON ence reToermneamteytiomnen nae nara powcr ae Se ae . . . . t pesererrireernine ream en css me meme rennin npn nnn i EE EE ERE Oe nna a ED STA SSS PD ET A EOE TT SS
y , : sey ‘aloeets sre Be ns SEER “PORRGLIIEEE 2 Sven naaresiees gt bed dT Lowy gO ete ST aoe rte rene . pet revmenat mtb trea ye serie ReRRT ETS _Gartera debriefing developed (and we assumed it sould bave een disolosed in ¢ -; Saete been knoe mere, end nad ties allowed, certain deori lefing.on the berlim Chere ee, aaa Sietributics 2 @ ES ufatta = I a . . PAE fous Ube P8RVIOUS FOITION. tony GFOLACES PORE ! Aa 09 83a 91-78, 41-988 AND 91-98 ECRET Feetmaniats % eA bb a CAT Cor So wher e's Tee CONTINUATION OF iSECRET mi DISPATCH Pr RYBAT RuvT-14004, 31 January 13962 Porve or Havy has am emsigned attache plane to establish procedures whereby the Air or aval Attache «ili advise COS of any absences of the aitacne plane, the point of designation of tne aircraft, and the duration of the absence, Inere have been previous defections wnere attache planes core used imitial vehicle of black eveeumtion. In tne evacuition plan of or 4ELADLE they informed us by cable that they proposal te use . ke are of the opinion that shen the statezent «as ond _{omehe the assunptias. the plane “ae immediately availaple, As uaa la ‘dlacav us the particular plane in ques bleshaden ans This, hewever, wag geome Glz hours after stated its intent te use that aircraft. (hile im this particular matters eventually worked out successfully the etery eight be otherwize in a diff:-remt set of facta. @ fPrierity furriahing of tresses, when @ Station is alerted te a request te render operational support to tas moveaent of a defector and aimultaneously Gnevere & request in tne negative if it can furnish traces, the following presedure is worthy of etuniy. If Headcuartera pvesessea, and tine permite, we believe it worth=nile to foreard an ismediate summry to the Station rendering support if the beakgrowmd of the delcoter ie much that it would be @ aatter of iecal interest. This would have been the case im AELADLE. 4s subsequent bead= Headquartere traces) AKLADLE hed previously been stationed in Berlin. Had sueh _ peried designed @lisit any matter of iamediate concern could have been wader | er
oo . cota, f—~ TO EGCP~14004, 31 Jan 1962 18 December 1961 MEMORANDUM FOR: ‘The Recor - SUBJECT: , Handling at German Station 16 and 17? December of Soviet Defector from Russian Embaaay at. Helainki ~ i. @hie memorandum is designed to record, soon after the event, all fests pertaining tu the handling within the German Station of the =. cvecuation of a Soviet Vice Covnag) (and member of the KIS) fron the . Russian Eebasay at Helsinki. ‘At the time of thig writing there is etill lacking certain information to complete the entire atory, Mowe, ever, 3t ie felt worthuhile to record all eventa while. the memory ia still fresh. In the following paragraphs the defector is referred ta as "subject" and pseudonyms and- identities are used in all other sages.  @e At appr tely 0730 hours Saturday, 16 December, Arnold J. LYACK (Chieg.,{ ONE) contacted me at my home and asked. me. to proaesd - », immediately to the residence of Joel D. DENTHAM (Chief of Station), t BENTHAM's residence, | LYACK briefed me.on.... .. . eable which eanouns tent to endeavor to family "black" f to Frankfurt aboard the | Aly Attache airoraft. Cable also r rankfurt to have an aire = @ragt available to receive immediately subject and family and take off . forthwith to the United..s » HE¥ACK algo mentioned an IN cable from DIR which requested tO move family soonest to(Causz0ug in Prenkfurt for establishment of bona fides. o2 "Se - Wa sdjourned to the office and awaited more word from * @& whish would advige on the arrival tine of. @t Prenkfurt, or from Headquarters sonourring ‘. Sor immediate departum of ine family for the Un ea BeeteS ussn -:* @erivai at Frenkfurt. EAQB was immediately alerted ana they made “+. @Ftangesenta to have a C-54 with avementes craw prepared to depart for “" the United States by 1200 houre. A compartment for the subject's — _ Goamily wea put in the ¢-54 and the regularly assigned tail number wan :, Semeved and a false number put on the Giroraft. Conrad Vv. LAPOLLA ‘. (Aoting Coief, COS/MUSCDA) was Gontaated and ask>d to come to the office immediately. Disoussions were then held with LYACK and Carl T, UPDILL cc, @@ to the avadlability of a KUDOVE oase Officer with Hugaian language -" @@padility to act as escort. — fr ose yee SBOP ST aD rag creas lone armcpepr eed 4retant - eS AD A SN eh istry a reenter crea ame
$F Oe <6 rE RSPR RTE BEATER tam Hn Rrra ence emer ere &. Having heard nothing from eithe or Headquarters _ by 0345 hours OPIN traffic was sent.in bo rections telling them “88 prepared to receive and effect immediate black evacuation e? the family to the United States. In the meantime, it had been Getermined tnat IDENTITY A would be used ag the seaurity escort and Ruseel K. MUCHANE (AD/PI Staff) woula be on standby to serve as a EXDOVE escort. ‘This was a contingency arrangement because we lacked 7 4, age whether or not a KUDOVE officer fron either Helsinki or IN ce prepared to travel with subject all the way to Washing=- 3+ Around 1100 hours I asked Edward P. TOCHENSKY (Chief ;’ EAOB) ' €0 establish contact with the Wiesbaden Air *2¢ ower and lay on errengements to monitor the flight of th ir Attache plane... * Take was done because we have had previous Instances of “black” arrivals at isabeder here the aircraft actually arrived before ‘the titi ca) diapatanine the body, ,-At about 1115 hours .. informed ‘me iy telephone that ta Tate Attache . @frereft, a C-45, was and had been at the W Wf Air Base since. 12 December, At about 1130 we cabled this information ¢ Qn DIR and « to dispatch an aireratt ‘to Copa: é oo the pickup 4 Gould move the body there. Because of ' Geetnical at "We Gould not dmpelately get inte any field north of Copenhagen. ‘lee involving air clearances and ‘lengths of runways, 6. At approximately 1145 houre a cable was received from Heade . Smurters Soncurring in the immediate evacuation from Wiesbaden by BAGB * airereft of subject's family upon arrival, If gush sould not be Grranged we were then requested to hold subject and family at (CABEzonE. = = 02. 7. Having heard nothing f. by appruciaately 1600 ~~ 7 We @gein gent them OPIN tra that they inform us ' Inmediately Of:their intentions, T had previously left the office veut 1450 hours in order to get some linsh end taxe o"e of one or | ta: Personél item. I hea called Nelson kh, POLIAKOFF (Deputy for . Gemini stration Staff) in to cover for me and had briefed him an ¢he - then current eftusesss, when I returned at 1600 hours MUCHANE had @eme inte the office Frepared for the trip. we then sent the above- "| mentioned cable and sunzosted that MUCHANE return to hig quarters and await further Gevelopmente. I Phoned TOCHRNSKY ana Suggested that he ‘ @8@ his communisater returmy to their quarters. LAPOLLA, in the neane time, had gone to Rhein/Main Alrport te meet an incoming ataffer oarry= “ing classified material and get him through Customs, if@ then returned " , to bis home, 1 left word with the Signal Center Watch Officer that @ay incoming tratfia on Subjact's ively snould be telephened iamedlately - €@ LAPOLIA who would ooae in, review the traffie and contact m-, Th
t owe nat BOUL cone haat. : : Ge to their office. se Watch Officer was @lgo agked ¥0, immediately phon-: the Wiesbaden Come municator who in turn would oontact and both of then would 8. At approximately 1900 hours LAFOLL’ contacted me at home from the Signal Cantan informed me that an KIA and other information was “types of foods aid magazines tha: (cosAasona Office) then arrived E i = : 5 & > 9» & then proceeded to the where wa were guests for dinner, Genter Wateh Officer whe relayed ' for Wiesbaden Air Base, departed iomediately for the Air 2500 houre the EAOB airoraft had (+ fmediately 22sr texgeort sudjea Y-" "extremely @ireick and suffered ro a °° @dministered oxygen. The mo: her + @emanded that the @iroreft immedi be te au United States-bound aircraft. he daitaet that FAOB was in @ state of immediate readinese. David ji. MULPALL hours. I telephoned this information to BENTHAM. rere m to stand by and ( would immediate : bled statement that Martin K. CT escorting subject to the United States ,-« 7 CHANE « I arrived at the office at 1930 the Guard. ergeant to buy certain @aked te be put aboard the and ascertained ‘whieh he end LAPOLLA took off immediately for Wiesbaden, They toak home of Ronald M, CORBANE (COS Laxyer) At @pproximately 2200 hours I received . @ 6811 from LAPOLLA that subject-and family had arrived, the turnover _-. bas made, and that the EAOS airoraft was airborne at app roaimately 2150 20. At Sppreximately 2245 houra I received a call from tha Signal u to me the following message from the ” Hlesbaden Commmicator. That message stated the BAOR elroraft wag dumediately returning to Wiesbaden besause of & sick passenger, Tamed i @tely thereafter i. received a call from LAP 11. FAGERUUND wae in attendance at the sanc dinner party and ve Base. Upon arvival at approxinately already landed ane NSKimMia Bequri ty Vi -: L.* provisions Mere observed in the area. Air Police had the “Hangar 34 0) ‘y Area" bleoked off two blocks in either direction, 42. ‘TOCHENSKY met me outside the building end informed ma thee t's Hixeyeareold daughter had besome epiretory diffieulttes, sha wae became hysterical and the father ately be returned te its point of pir ew fae 4 fbasge are OLLA who wag at the quarters — ef Arthur G. DREIBELOIS (EAQB) in Wiesbaden, LsPOLIA atated that he ' bad gotten hold of the Air Base Flight Surgeon and waa proceading to the Air Base. He row at thet ting ne ather details, = told him Chesee | Be FAGERLUND (C03 bccton) Officer) and myself would leave immediately - i
* deperture. He further stated he would not agree to further travel to the United States ‘akcept by commercial jet. We alec ascertained that the Plignt Surgeon had looked at the daughter and had fount hecaing organically wrong. We then asked ROODINE to. “.- Bring PAGERUUD into the room where subject's family waa ataying and introduce him as an “Yuxerigan Intelligence Service Medical Officer® and have FAGERUSD examine the child. FAGERLUND's resulta were the 2 @ae ae the Plight Surgeon and no Sedication ws given the child. a Giscussion of some fifteen minutes then tock place ag to how: beat: to proceed with onward transportation arrangements. KOODINE took se aside fact that Subject wag of the the next 48 hours, ROOD INE also 5 ange. All KUBARK representatives then on the asene and the undersigned made the deoiaion to abort the Bigsion, arrange snmediate eafe-housing Svermignt for subject and hig fasiily, and ‘ettenpt comercial tranaportation on Sunday. ~-" 93, Raplier in the day LYACK informed me that he had cleared cut their Eschborn safe-house in case we should need it. I immediately  @e Contact Stephen R. LACKLEN ONE) and tell his we had “e an ismediats need to house & emily of three, Plus two MUSARK officers at Eschborn. To further teil LACKLEN to be etanding by at Opel Girole opposite the Rinneapolia | Honeywell Bullding at 9199 heure amd Se prepared to escort enother vehiele ts Ze choern.. / bh. Phone BENTHAM and teil him we wouldidron by his house later thas oveiiing to brief him on any developments, "@s Phone LYACK and tell him we were using Kechbora, 18 A121 consemed Ceparted Wiesbade: 0020 hours on 17 December and arrived at the meeting point at Opel Circle at exactly 2100 houre., sub Jeot's family plus MULFALL, who had . @lao gone immediateiy +9 Wiestaden,: foliowed LACKLEN‘s oar to Eachhern, PAGERUMND, LAPOLLA, ROUDINE, and riyself went iomediately to BENTIAM's . Rouge. , , m Air Base at approximately Mla acreseie dearest Dated eaten ERT eearepaien oe Ba eierant Fe meter setae ona bw: tated he concurred in subiect's feele bot cee g aetit ata pe came att ee
ene eis a Peteen eeeneets eewneincmmeermtie neath went : : ar ao RON ytng PoIRER Goe ENTE EEE ZT AO nae 9 oak . P iy . *. fer gubject and hie family. 5 45. BENTHAM wag then fully briefed on developzents and ROODINE gave certain operational information of a sensitive nature froa subject to BENTHAR. After necessary analysie and discussion the following ée¢isions were reaghed: . calde tes @ .We would endeavor to reneve the family out of Prankfurt be In the absence of the ability to accomplish this, we would endeavor to renove thes on an Air Force Medical Bvecuatian Piight on Monday, 15 Decenbder, @. Comeph Q. KLEMACK (Chief, COM/KURIOT) was contacted by phone from HENTHAM's residense_and said he.believed that his people could affix in the subject's passporte 4a mh a 7 . Wederel Kepublie entry stamp. This was considered neces-_ eary in order tc prevent embarrassing questions by German immigration Authorities on Sunday when the family would |” Gepart by commercial air. Tne family had entered the . Pederal hepublie “black” and eecordingly there was ne entry permit in their Soviet Diplomatis paseports. s é. Ws would return LAPOLLA and ROODINE-to the safe=nouse ‘and””” Z wo..3d aloo send out one enlisted guard with sidearn. ‘taformation and everyone departed the BENTHAM reaidenee for their respective missions. I proseeded to the Signal Conter and reloased the érafted sable. , ; ac Me IZ arrived back at ay quarters about 0330 hours. At about 0810. hours I received a oall from KLEMACK, wanting te get in touch with LAPOLIA cn matters pertaining to tne documentation work he was trying to accomlisn. I gave him the telephone husber of the Eschborn safe=- house. It turned out that the eold weather had aftfeoted telephone came = the : HLZRRGE then went osu *e Beghborn and discussed his probiea wit LAPOLIA ané HOUDINE. I an , informed, but eas yet do not know the teannieal reason why, that KURIOP $ouid not put in the sudject'a passport the required German entry etagp. | Tt was decided at the meeting at the Kschborn safe-house that KURIOS would try to make and have ready by the neat morning passports 18. At about 0600 hours I received a call from the Signal Center Vateh Officer informing me that Headquartera “approved your plan.” -1 amediately tried to contact the Esahborn safeehouse by phone but te no Cow emon | Byadh. Around 0630 I ocitacted KLGACK at the ALIUE ingtallation and wis thon informed by him of hia earlier visit to Eschborn around 0400, He told me during bie phone conversation that LAPOLLA wag going to get up about 0700 houra. I surmised that LAPOLLA would proseed immediately o to the office and then did ao myself, fang Bt eatra Ri ty Ure a { ETL Abedued " 36. A eeble to Headquarters was drafted on the basis of all this. 7 OT Foner eng a patra anne Ri nate by commercial airoraft that day, i.¢., Sunday, 17 Decesber, we aw! 8 so sate SSR TU e AcLEEEREEEER GASSED IRSA NAEN ttt SAKE te Ml tthe Am Me boa se agbiens. Vy seme os aetna agers ete cena
Pan ta he's ty ote atm = aire nae ae 2 eget arse sunt gaipes es so ceptor wi gre 2 reine ci. @ed@ that we were under obligation t “. cy | them to the United States by Jet ai “oy PAA No. 75 at 1318 hours, aa J". tien Authorities, After eonaide . 49. LAPOLLA arrived at the office sometime shortly after 0800, then discussed nat our possibilities were, situation as @e then sas it, We had no guarantee that th Passports would be finished by AURIOF in time to be used by @rnoun United .. States flag commercial Jet. We discussed again, as we nad the rrevious @vening, contacting Mr. eillian Naylor,-the Pan Aserisan Senior oifiser im Germany and a cleared and witting contact, as te whether or not he Gould arrange to board passengers without going through German 0 tion, i.0., Passport Control. The question of the availability of seats was also invelved, LAPOLLA suggested that we phone Naylor in his 2 Urgency and asx him-to come immediately te the 1.0. Parben Building and NS " Pesidence in veg tomburg and explain to him we had @ matter of serious _ @iseuse the matter with us. The phone call QS made amd Naylor agreed _ €%@ do this, LAPOLLA then Sontasted the MATS Office at Knein/Nain. to ' Gay. He discovered that they had no commercial Jet chartered flignts that day tut at midnight on Sunday tney were dispatehing a C-135 cone Figured to carry 66 passengers. ile wag further informed that 3% of ould be sent on the flight. Inagmueh ag &@ C-135 is tne military cargo version of. a Boaing.707,.LAPOLLA and ayeelf - ¥ : got military authority to fly this family out. We desided against such course of action for several reasons. We anticipated that there would be too tueh conversation among the single military personnel aboard the flight when they observed five aivilians, three of whom were obviously a |" family, flying on the same Blane. The fact that the six-year-old - @@ughter apoke no English algo contributed to the adverse eituaticn we . @nticipated, Secondly, subject and family had already been aboard one Gargo type airoraft and were reported ty ROODINE to have made @ sorles @. Naylor arrived at the office at about 1000 hours and WAS made : @@Merally aware of our problem. He was informed that the principal " ° traveler involved was a defecting Russian diplomat, plus wife and. ehiia, o expeditiously and securely return roraft. He was further informed ; lacked the PPSPS? Goowaentation to board them on the sommereial aireratt shreugh normal o) - that we would have- the doc earance procedures and we had no guarantee umentation by light departure time of We then asked him what he sonsidered ta i» . Che possibilities of working out a preseturg tg doard the party "black" _ Gnd te prevent any divulgence of their existence to the German Inmigrae rable discussion it appeared that there ce avira 4 eypal Pas ewgarae oo a aa 3 4 :
7: existed @ very good possibility to get. ths passengers aboard the aire eraft and successfully ofreumvent German passport controle. Naylor ecntacted his own agegistant ami the PAA Operations Officer assigned te Rhein/Main, both of whom are United States citizens, and asked that they proceed to the airport and stand by to assist him in tne handling — of some very important personages whe were departing on PAA No. 73. He then ascertained that only three first class seats were available - om thie flight. He told hie assistant to seat two passengers in the - @ireraft lounge and he would accept full responsibility for it. his i9 Gomewhnt toushy in the airlines business as lounge seats have no . gafety belte. He elao knew additional first class. geate were available... -- .-- - gl, In the meantime, KLAMACK end one of his sen working on the —- deoumentation had returned to Eschborn to c ee of aubject and 2 Sates setenv name nig family that would be necessary for Pusaporta. “ The , Beat reading we could get from the KURIOT king .on the dooue. wente wae that they would not be ready on time. Inagmugh as decisions bed been made, we decided tc set the wheels in motica and started the . family te the airport. LAPOLIA accordingly took eff for Eschborn and '@ plan was agreed upon where he would arrive with the family in front Of the Rhein/iiain Departure building et 1230 hours. Naylor would be’ ° etanding by the entrance and take the family via a circuitous airpers building route to the PAA Operations Office which ta loeated on the - sooond floor of the building beyond Passport Control. Naylor departed &t about the same time as LAPOLLA and went direstly ta the airpert. . 22. Earlier in the merning I had asked BENTHAM tf he sould effect coe : @prangemente at the Consulate to have a Visa Officer standi e put - United States visitors' vieas for subjest's family oS ae oo | perte. BaccSHAM aocomplished this and, ut Naylor's seuss ; “asked | : if the Consulate Officar could go to.the PAA. Operations Office at Rhein/ ee fair, and e¢end by there te ascomphianh his visa #Gra.e. Dy 66 Going we - ~ ; eould save approdimately 56 winutes time, .i contacted Mr. Rollie white ', Of the Congulate office and he agresd to mest us at the airport at |. - 3255 noure. ‘ coe he 23. I next phoned BENTHAH ond made hie. avare of cur situation. I¢ . . Gid not look ag if we would have any useble documentation to pass. the 1 family and would have to take tie chance of uircursenting tne Passport od Gcntrol. Our principal cansern was that a Gerwen Innigration Officer ~— * syne would be atanding by the aircraft departure area and xould ask to see ; a subject's passport. Wo could not get subject's family aboard the 7 . Segvlar bus that goes Zrom tne departure pullding te the atroraft oS . because there was no way we vould get them to the bus leading area ; Without going thro sh Pasaport Contrel, EENTHAT eared how we evaluated @n ability te withdrew gracefully at plane side if enallenged by German
would appeal to the fact that this. was a VIP party being handled out of the regular airport procedures and that tne passports had been left in the PAA -ffice. we would then, put the party back in tne vehicle that” - tock them out and jugt keep going. BEMTHAM authorised us to proseed with the “black” evacuation. : 2 @&. I then made one last call to EURIOT and told them if ‘they could... tes BOL complete their work and get the passports to the airport. by 1315 2°: howre to fcrget it. With that MULBALL and ayself left for Hhein/Main. — Age a arene bes 83. We arrived at Rhein/Main exactly at 1250 hours as subject's party wes drawing up. The group nes then taken by @ olroultoug route 80 the PAA Operations Uffice.. It-was cacertained that PAA No. TS woulg- - azrive at 1245 hours, approximately thirty minutes late. 26. During our wait at the PAA Operations Office, RODIN got me aside three or four times and kept me continuously aware of gubject'a foar that an attempt vould be aade to sabotage his plane. “ened evidenced this concern ever since Als arrival in Frankfurt. - Subject — tolé ROODINE he felt sure that Soviet agents would be found among some of the exployees of the commercial airlines and the sanagement of Kneln/ | Baim Airport. He mentioned the section of the RIS that.works specifically — A Assassinations and sabotage. He was fearful of. any baggage being _ loaded very late or any "spare baggage” that might be fSund aboard: the @iroraft. I teld ROQDINE we were very sympathetic but we were net about %e ask Neyler, whe had now gone auch further than one could be reasonably expected to on our behalf, to off-load the baggege of 184 passengers ond search it. ae 8 authorities. I told him the chanmses were better than even and that we , i | 27. Two events happened while we were waiting im the offies to beard the parties that were of some disturbance. The airplane Captain eported to the PAA Operations Officer that a gun was found aboard the Plane. Upon investigation it.was determined that this gun belonged to an Armed Porces sourier who had carried classified material on the aire ora to Prenkfurt. The Girplane captain, upon being agked by Naylor af thore had been eny unugual activities on the part of the passengers, ‘then desoribed one party flying in the first-class gomnarteent, Thig — “Plight ow eriginated in gan Praneiece and was flying aroumd the world -weatbouid. At New Delhi a United States oitizen, a correspendent for @n unknown newspaper, boarded the plane with his wife and a fensle nurse. | Sha flight orew had been informed that he was an aleohclis ard was seing Fatumec ta the United States at the request of the United States Bubasay @t New Delhi. For scart of the trip he had acted in somewhat of an . : obnoxious fashion ivi had ingulted some of the other passengers. The _ , Captcin had investigated the situation and was of the opinion that the . 2 @orrespendent was new sufficiently drunk and Jasked suffinient atanine eed tak aati sarod et kPabenel eater ee Cd H - r a : 5 .
thisen, | 8p 88: org way et tem, og leaded plane hed been Dublin total weight. At about 1405 and they were recampe poste with United were carried in @ brow envelope by a PAA United States Gepleyee end gives to RODE. The ana relled cut at 1414 hours. pi6ne wag then cleared for The only cther information imown at the tise :f this uPiting @ Her we GLrorer was diverted te Hermuda because of pad weather am Mew Yoru. Maylor telephoned me that information about @m Gomiay gorning, 18 December,