DY. Stephen Fischer=Galati NOTE CONTINURD ¢ PischoreGalati iS A professor of history, Colorado University, Salutation of Dr, taken from established referanes book, According to Dufilea, FischereGalati was dolerred in Vorld War I2 for psychcneurosis, anxiety type, He reportedly advised State Pepartment in 1080 he was a elicse frdend of the Bix rector's, an untrue statement. ; SEKMSITIVE SOSRCRE PMATERIAL “porn in Romania, ° SEVSITIVE SouRPt& MATER/A » He communicated with Justice Department 4/7/69 conee rning Rihats disacpesarance, dustice acknowledged his letter, He has been mentioned in eoveral press items in the Rika case 28 un acquaintance and University associate, . - - On 2he Io, Fred ShemiLkl Dwreitrr oie toenilag | We bred a rrceandls o y, u on ee fen. f get ye SAA Abner sfecna dh do hee, Gustan. wee eee | Ape L Chee wipes € ee “aoe Seni ‘ ; a e At dhie ge), orf Ler. oF FO chek dh “Cerner CORI selon tos sane ples TTA E eater Loe oe wood Pree, Be. bh of € BILL fh. ae Be aniiee) [PLO Gx tance ner ceneeey OP Cet bt RAB, ie ete 4 - a ‘ “oO onde So% ef of. ceeot nf be fey ey ere em ry Ae 3 x ‘Cl ax af ey Oss aH Visteds é e a mE Geporh ire “ =a Cert EL Ce Com Freee ong &, Be OEE Gone wen wiht © Cr, 12 ae é OOF et AAW CLA Bes . ber lDCAr?. fleiee's GTA ales a a7 ak ase. Ae fete LiF = ee faw"® oad ost sae Ao. whee. Chet in? LOtatz thew. Gene GR oe dagen p he Pt Cie Zé, ey eetege Cl | i Se ee _7 meen eG ar airs SLevranted ef ‘2 ted é ale oe ousen 7 a dna é bg hz oa cust oe “, ! ae Ul te ema OC th. f , ‘ Ova 7 totes oy otny. eee eR ‘ \V AW 55100 Docld:329689553 Page 62
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"On 3/30/70, Fred Schmidt, Director of Security, HEW, advised SA Hengemuhle, Bureau liaison, that the Institute of International Studies, Office of Education, contributes funds to an Eastern European (Slavic) Program at the University of Colorado. Approximately 50% of the cost of the program is paid by OE with the University contributing the balance. Thomas Riha was one of the instructors hired by the University under this program. His salary would be paid by the University and he receives no funds directly from.0OE and OB has no control over his employment. He is not a federal employee. JWR" HW 55100 DBocld:329895535 Page 64
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wee | { —— 7 Fr HW By KERMIT JAEDIKER naa Prete? ~ Senate? &: ls MILE-HIGH DENVER, eco- nomic and cultural capital cf the Rockies, investigators are work- ing to unravel a mystery that at times hes heen fertesti') absurd Irs. weep) Sovre fs Colya Tannen- baum, a heavyset, domineerinz worn of 39 who had g . three friends WPe, Loput it mila.y, were awfully unleeky, The ill-starred three were: © Thomas Riha, 4U, a Czechosiova- kian-born associate professor of Russian history at the University of Colorado in nearby Boulder. He vanished in March, 1989. amid a spate of rumors hinting at a link with espionage. Denver District Attorney Mike Mchevitt says today he has “grave doubts” that Riha is alive. © Gustav Friedrich Ingwerson, a 78- year-old p'astics engineer. He died last June from cyanide posoning. Galya is charged with forgery in connection with his will, wh ch made her a beneficiary, ® Mrs. Barbara Egbert, a 51-year-old divorcee who was found dead last Sep- tember ii her Denver apartment. Her death, teo. was attributed fo cyanide. A typewritten suicide note was found, but MeKevitt says it’s a fake. According to the district attorney, both known deaths are suspected of be- ing homicides. Galya’s lawyer, John Koxish, admits the police wanted to ques- tion her about them but “I told her not to open her mouth.” Galya took his ad- vice. Ordinarily, she’s quite a talker. For months, a fascinating aura of international spying clung to the Riha zase and still hangs over it, although it Jacks official corroboration. A contrib- uting factor undoubtedly was Galya’s claim, to a number of persons in the Denver area, that she was a colonel in U.S. Military Intelligence. Galya’s attorney says that just isn’t true, and Intelligence heartily concurs, but Galya is still known around town, perhaps only in jest, as The Colonel. Just before he disappeared, Riha himself, who reportedly knew her very, very well, was believed to have referred to her as Golonel in a notation on his calendar. Logic itself militates strongly against the*posaibiity that Galya was ‘anvorticer ‘ ’ 95100 Docld: 32989553 € Page 56 in the American intelligence. She was a fréezfanee~commercial artise~br~—yrofes- sion, as goud a cover for a spy as any, but if she went around broadcasting she was an Intelligence officer, that auto- matically blew her cover. The Colonel stuff aside, there have been serious questions as to whether Riba himself may have dabbled in secret ee tka on For oN : ' 3 . ? ' . . . Poel. ihe . ran mye i we tron U.S. in ertizen, ata on a ry Marne Wats Yow ae porey. cane beew ne oa nalurarized tet ¢ wy the tat, degrees at the University of CQ ivegma, to say nothirg of a goctarata from Harvard. tle TAUGHT at the University of Chi- cago, at Marburg University in Wes: Germany and then joined the faculty of the University of Colorado. He'd been around a lot, geographicaly speakirg, had professorial pals all over the coun- try and, what's more, was a leading authority on Russian history. In addition, he had made at least two visits to Moscow. He went there in 1958- 59 to attend Moscow University as an exchange student and he revisted Mos- cow in 1968 as a guide for a touring group of college professors. 3 One report has it that he told friends in Denver that he was once annrece’y dine Sivscow: subway’ by & ‘man: who * asked if he would do intelligence work. ButRiite-fold the story joking The im- plication of the joke being that just about every American tourist in Russia was open to approach by Soviet agents seek- ing spy recruits. Galya has hinted that Riha had worked for Uncle Sam, which proves nothing. Still another source, completely without official support, says he was connected with an American espionage outfit. But McKevitt insists, “I don’t suspect espionage.” and in Washington, the Cen- cral Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the State Department have all denied knowledge of the Riha case. But even bereft of the cloak-and-dageer angle, the case has its moments, thanks largely to Galya.. “A fascinating, brilliant person with a complex mind,” says District Attorney . MeKevitt in speaking of her. The first and perhaps the most terrifying of a cluster of strange events tied in with Galya occurred March 9, 1969, a Sunday, at Prof. Riha’s ranch- style home on 2 picturesque hill slope in the university town of Boulder, 20 miles from Denver. Riha’s 25-vear-old wife, Hana, stood screaming ar a bedroom window of the house. She was heiped out the window by neighbors. About her was a strong odor of ether. Boulder poiice were summoned to the seene, by none other than Galya, who was in the hause. So was Riha. Galy, cleatly a (ake-charze eal, met the cops Vat tne fdoor.: She told thenetiat—sirs, 4 Rtha had jocked herself in the bedroom, that ue faumes were src ic te va dusid2 the room and that Airs. Riha fled sereaming to ‘he windew when Galya and the professor vhreatened ty break the bedroom door oben. Mra. Rukas story cont with Galya’s versiva, She the ether PY a ae4y wh, r Ye ts ro thar she onty stated sop aris she feared he dliecde ad Wea over ome her. Police male a seavch and foard a far of ether and several ethers: pads in the bed covers in teltrom. Wroaogut then: dlrs and ween, was not explained. Galya coolly told investigators that Mrs. Riha, a Czechoslovakian, was not a U.S. citizen and that immigration au- thorities haa been called because her visa had expired. However, a New York at- torney and longtime friend of Mrs. Riha declared that “there was nothing urgent about Mrs. Riha’s visa siatus that night, nothing pressing, no imminent deporta- tion. ted shavpiy fy Mes RIHA phone her attorney Zriend that very night and sobbingly told her story ang pleaded for his hip. Eventual- ly she moved east to Brooklyn, obtaining a job in a New York bank. Prof. Riha had already filed divorce proceedings to end his five-month marriage and after he disappeared, his wife filed a counter suit ana won it. She also won a $5,000 judgement. When District Attorney McKevitt was asked about the ether business, he hinted it may have been “an attempt to scare. Mrs. Riha”’ that sprang from the “thought process of a mixed-up mind.” He didn’t elaborate. Galya’s presence in the household may be explained by the fact that she and the professor had been friends for some time —perhaps even more than friends. An authoritative source quotes Galya as have ing said she lived with Riha for about two and a half months prior to his marriage, The police report on the ether episode described the chunky, 160-pound Galya as “the fullback type.” What drew the rather good-looking professor to her is a puzzler. Probably the attraction of op- posites. . Ha_was known to be quiek and, soft- spoken, giver to scholarly pursuits aad
fron vAnnte ad Wieden neeancede Sd HW 55100 vuritiny She has been described as \ av. aed a ae rs ernst "ety rope, sLieerrey ft. Louis Pores vee cw rea ay BLO. ate ae to Kez vote fheeved in i. . St aate Mang ale al her three ehisiren and she won it _ Later, she nenbaum. Koxish says her mother lives in Gal- va, Ii, and suggests Mrs. Tannenbaum may have arrived at Galva by “playing around with the word Galva.” It was certainly more exotic than Gloria. A week after Mrs. Riha made her precipitate exit via a window of the house, Prof. Riha disappeared. He was to have attended a@ meeting of history professors in Denver on Mareh 15, a Saturday, and, characteristically method- jeal, had ‘noted this on his calendar pad. He faiied to show up at the meeting. Friends repeatediy phoned the house that day and got no answer. Next day, a group of acquaintances, whom he was to have picked up for a dinner engage- ment, called at the house, rang the door- bell, got no answer and peered through. the kitchen window. They could see the kitchen table and on it a place setting consisting of a ce- real bowl, dishes and ‘silverware. Ap- parently it had been set for a breakfast Riha never ate. Investigating police discovered that while Riha was a man known for preci- sion and neatness, his personal papers were rather wildly scattered across his Cesk, where he had been preparing his meome tax return. Among his effects was his calendar pad bearing the March 11 entry: “dinner Colonel.” This was be- lieved to refer to Galya. The mystery of his disappearance al- most immediately touched off rumors that the quiet professor of Russian his- tory might actually be a pedagogic James Bond. Close, friends expressed fears he might be dead. But a university official announced reassuringely that he had re- reived a report—from “reliable sources” in Washington—that Riha was “alive ond well.” Later, however, McKevitt said the alive-and-well conclusion sprang from a misunderstanding and termed the report “an honest mistake.” Rep. Donaid G. Brotzman (R-Cel.), peeording to his administrative assistant, iPohert Tonsing, “made inquiries to AGE Rory Intelligence,, the CIA and. the FBI ab tan et? ecwrinneee oer Erte Docld: 32989553 Page 87 , | espionage.” JM ish - ities were unimpressed. and | received unguali ‘fled negative re- wre Hf i ” Pore “We voi ose pul Positions Bvugl res) he Jarjer et et last summer, Deh Ger Toss a ew aad Yr Wes fourd dead an ‘is ie e Rida i Parest Sk, Denver. Death was at first attributed to a heart attack, but an autopsy showed traces of mercuric cyanide. As an engineer, says Kokish, Ingwer- son ased cyanide in mineral assaying. The district attorney's office developed an interest in Ingwerson’s death. The police were intrigued to learn that Galya knew Ingwerson, who was a widower. She told the cops they had picnicked to- gether and even talked marriage. Interestingiy enough, Ingwerson also knew Prof. Riha. Indeed. during a clean- up of Ingwerson’s home last December, Ingwerson’s son, Donaid. found Riha’s wedding ring The next development came when Galya was arrested on a charge of hav- ing forged, in part at least, the Ingwer- son will, and % presente.| it in Denver Pro- bate Court with allee-d intent to defraud Donald Ingwerson cf Denver and Mrs. Esther Foote of Colorado Springs. wrt TR P ourcs quoted Mrs. Foote as saying Galya asked her to witness the docu- ment, but Mrs. Foote said she didn’t sign it and that the witness’ signature on it was a forgery of her name. Under the terms of the will, Galya was left 100 shares of stock. The will was drawn up 13 days before Ingwerson's death. Galya denied the forgery, but author- After all, she had dabbled in forgery before. She had an arrest record dating back to 1950 when she was taken into custody in San Antonio, Tex., on a charge of forging government checks. She was later sentenced to a year and a day for mail theft, but was placed on probation. In 1960, she was sentenced in Iinois to nine months for getting money by false pretenses with a check. Later the same year she drew 1 to 5 years in a women’s reformatory on two charges of forgery and one of embezzlement. In the midst of the Ingwerson inquiry came the revelation that an Investigation was under way into the death of a third most unfortunate friend of Galya—Mys. Egbert. She was found dead in her flat Attorney MeReviit said: rOle, fla it We euLepes, Menevitt aaded, ye ohh exit ine, Poe quently searched Galya's rented house at 24h Logan St. In the basement they via preand of what MoKevirn Meech itd as potassium cyanide. He said Galya hada photo laboratcr the celor end Warned with chemicais in that connec- tion. The Denver press was still kicking the Riha mystery around this January when Galya, free pending the forgery inv estigation, consented to be inter- viewed, but solely on the subject of Riha, in lawyer Kokish’s office. She declared unequivocally that Riha was still alive. She said, in fact, that he had visited her in Denver twice since his disappearance, once in May and later in the summer. She said he was living in Montreal, although she had no address for him. “I don’t know what he’ s doing,” she added. “I never asked him.” She said he left Boulder “because things were pressing in on him” both at the university and in his household, the latter an apparent reference to his di- vorce proceedings. She insisted she didn’t know how he left Boulder, but in the next breath admitted she picked up his car at Stapleton International Airport after his departure. When the interviewer remarked that Riha was said to be a “perfectionist,” Galva said sardonically, yes, he was a perfectionist — in leaving Boulder. She shook with laughter. Before closing the interview, she made a prediction: “Tom [Riha] will be here some time in January.” The seeress was wrong on that one, but a lot of things that didn’t show up ia her crystal ball materialized in January, to say nothing of February, and they were all on the wrong side for Galya. She was accused of forgery of a warranty deed in the sale of Prof. Riha’s home, forgery of a deed of trust linked with the house, and forgery of Riha’s name to a $330 check to finance a char- tered plane trip for herself and two companions last July 30 to San Antonio, She was also charged with forgery in the transfer of the tille to Riha’s car, sold for $1,250 to Antheny J. Stone, a high school principal. Stone said he bought the car April 1, which wowhl be about two weeks after Riha’s s disapnear- ance, with a check payable to Riha. It was further disclosed that Galya, in a burst of generosity, donated a large part of Riha’s art collection, with an OT ore 03 n 2 he e was 4 Mae > an ta a ke die 1 2 a tthe, ttae dis suivaee ee aval ,at 1330 Race Sf. on Sent, liand Disivict . sappreaised value: of more than.:$14 000,
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