404-t0181-10089 STL BOK Ground Use On} 1 Bee me ni Gok Et age AP O Not } <eToduCe EX = 786 5 December 1966 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT; "American Defectors to the USSR" 1, The attached material wag part of a soft file entitled "Americana Defectors to the USSR", which was set up by SR/6 (Support) ar ound 1960 and maintained by various SR components until ca, 1963. The compilations were derived from @ variety of sources, and contain both classified and overt data, L 2. Inthe fall of 1966, the files were turned over to CI Staff. In most instances, basic information was then abstracted for the US Defector Machine Program, In all instances in which the material wag unique, or represented a valuable collation effort, it has been inc or porated into the appropriate 201 file, along with a copy of this memorandum, 3. It is suggested that any dissemination of thig data should be coordinated with SB Division and with CI Stare {CI/MRO}, in view of the frequently inadequate sourcing and of the fact that disseminations have already been made through the US Defector Machine Program, | 0 Orig - CL/MRO 1- RID/FI 1 - SB/RMO 1. cunuaf [03 1- CU/R&A ono SECRET ACl.~ LF7 FA] eT er Sa Fee negra (TREN ae WD wy age wae So ee, TONs ene megane ¥
- + SECKED . ef ROS ee mee] 14-00000 . . Hany 8 ~ “ff . . i , . : . ce ) . SLOSCLA Vladimir, 22 . wepee Lo), olan. _ .* mes ofS ausicned te S33 All iten: throprh 2° ccreh 19€3 cone “ron eifclG files, rrior to cefeetion, not a ver inportacse MTD cat Casn Ring, vest Ger ary : yee EVI reserted that he was a cB agent, taourh of we one “Grobasly reerm-‘ted after assiement te Sth aig eo, cto wife recorted that Jcrt before defection he nad been very derressed anc had. : lost a lot of noney 2 or 3 Avcust 1860, borcer into cast cer 7" enotional state ani fact of AITY covnterneasure: ' BD arents recently, izenshin some tim: that Swe month, accordin to a Joly 1961 press article, Acc: - alin. * te Pe, 27 4urust 1960, ; expose of Lo sor act MY and requested Joviet acylem, camDling . Leavinre «wife anv Fanily in frankfurt, he crossed s€asens were pres: caably sused by arrest of 15) He also hac narents in LSL.S He received ~oviet cite Revters renorted interview with hin on Moscow TV: usual ~ ivities in nest Cernany, US~is-a-uarnonger line, etc, Some type thing was also rut out in oress relensed at this sare period, ~epteuwber 1960, september seve of Golos oc iny (newspaper of the Kv9 : ne Seturn to the tomland) naw aeticle Supposedly by Nine or Comittee for the his past Aistory anc éelriefin: on inteli ME duties in est Germany. 19 sovenber 1960, Hic Sritish + had returned to ne Circa Tecerber 1°70, Late Sovenber 1°70, Pheir arrival torey hin he was aareacy Alvin’ second thon-hts a ife .illisn and their three chilcren, whe after his cefection, sailed fron Lonuon for “ening grad on the LATVIA to doin him. inte corns ternation, because rout his ceelsisn to defect. “ite rerarted by letter to tro eritish Enbassy- 2 loscet, TA, Leabine ncr cresence in L'vov, where he hed been resettled, euly 1961, The proparanca veins his “oviet citizen since that the authorities Per month "which was with his lot, Asqetr exit nernit. d Hon eh ig fy Sfir, (Sea e {them in on events to ~ lot, pe eee OE, afraid ta +o to bs mass, wag interteved in - be said he wols not try to ret ove hinuelf unt vife had been issned voviot internal Pesenor’. Yor forei - Vorbery, i: io -3 JI Aa o “Pty ot Kis parents lived wi ta thet in sine Aairtnent: seven peonle | we baths 3 : a 2 im ~ re ae 5) Ovi pe, rit Ft ob aes Yon Oud Te, WS&, || Yegardless of any cha about his bein let o e ve of Visti 2 Ubrainy had an article jn the sane past, “L intelT activities, etc, Indicated he had Seen august 1960 an! wag living in Livoy, wire later reported had vorovided a Saree -roon flat; Salary over 300 rubles Qite seod by lesal standitds;" ceened qvite conten 2 eel, che aorlied to bie Ltvov aitherittes ror an SMO Ga Hee f Mera liter | 9 Blogs |. Fat PbO ALD ale Sarly 1962, Still no action on her exit request, but she afraid appeal to Brit-onb in fear or reorisals, “he called at triumb r2 her exit and filled dete. CSaic he was nov desperate to tetirn to the U.c., rees he .i-ht have to Taces out, they vere not ontinis tic “Qin ut, ecpecially since he h-d been outsroken avainst USiR, This is a bit of a chanve from her loi of Penarks that ne vas happy with his Abeer’ 62, bers aa ” . ” GA tr Poe ayn, aed Dp, 7 *ye a, aye ; rapet mw agte. + be él wares 1962, Ve éevenpanied wife and Jou et child ty orit a and, “=. Pl AAT BD we bg LA. yr Pat Aude Oe gy 7, 0% Brit Ev. by ts 2nd eecy Jos, "h : : we . a a il ta euilcren cit. ~ ~~: 20/- 297927 ¢ ° Say de, fF
14-00000 mm, 4 4 ‘ . ’ > _ - a le mle “ : SECR valid Irit nessvert and no ce’ tizenrs.ip reqvest. The oldest and youn-est chil¢ren were on ner Cov document becavse en her -Pitisn -rscrort, out the riicdle one hed been bora in the Uiley NQE a U.5. citizen, ant had an excired Wel. passport, che hed received Sovict exitereentyy visi valid for 90 days and cic net tell then that she planned net to return. 21 Augvst 1°€2, A British Enbessy rerresentative called on nin in itvev, where ie was aivint with oldest child, Che re wes middle child? snd youncest, if aidn't eecaapany nother to ing land?) He "had teen suojected to fairly fre= quent questionings by the HCD in i've since he visitec. the bubassy in soscow @ few months 2-0, An American acquaintance -no “ms ina Sinllar position te his own [Octkaniez?) anc had visited the American Lapass:, had been taken off for questioning tne EGS innediately on leavin; the bullcing.® 19 March 1963. sife was interviewed by actaafet Galitax, England, where living wita mother. omewhet an-aconistic to interviewer 2nd told nim she had now deciced raturnzkaxez it her dvty te return to the USSR and felt that they would let her, itvsband had wired saying he sendine oldest ¢hile out te her, but she had wired back saying not to. It sas at this interview that she Said he had seemed content with his lot, avpcarea like job as tr. translator/librarian at L'vov Polytechnic Institute, and seemed like living with his parents, SECRET YOO