QUESTIONS CONCERNING DEFECTORS JOSEPH J. DUTKANICZ AND VALDIMIR O. SLOBODA.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: WIGREN, LEE H., C/SR/CI/R, CIA
To: CHIEF, CI LIAISON
Document date: 10/2/64
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Attachmach 13.

2 October 1964

MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, CI Liaison

FROM

: SR/CI/R

SUBJECT

: Questione Concerning Defectors

Joseph & DUTKANIEL (201-289436) a20

Vadimir O. SLOBODA (201-287527)

1. DUIKANICZ'& Army assignment at time of defection.

USAREUR Case Summary 2-62-2 (copy attached) confirms

DUTKANICZ's assignment to the 32nd Signal Battalion in Darmstadt:

However; his wife indicated that he had CIC connectione. In an interview

at the American Embassy Moscow on 5. December 1961 (cited in DBA-388,

24 January 1962), she indicated that their trip behind the Iron Curtain "had

been made possible because her husband worked for the CIC and was allowed

to do things the ordinary 'GI' could not do. " There are also penciled no-

tations in the 201 file suggesting that his Army assignment may have included

Intelligence functions of some kind.

2. Previous KGB connection of both defectore.

Per USAREUR Case Summaty 2-62-2, DUTKANICZ himself

told American Embassy officiale in Moscow that he had been ayproached by

KGB representatives in a bar near Darmatadt in 1958 and had accepted

recruitment as a result of their threats and inducements. He claimed to

have given them minimum cooperation from then until his defection, although

the Army considered il probable that he had done more thin he admitted. A

further indication of his KCB involvement before defection is the fact that the

apecial decree granting him Soviet citinenship was enacted three monthe before

his arrival in the USSR; vee Emb tel 851.

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SLOBODA' priOr KCE lvolvement was confirmed by BEVISION.

as reported in YI-1192. See attached memorandum of 28 March 1962 in

regard to passage of this information to the Army. Further indleations are

the tacte that SLOBODA was a Koh resottlement case and that he later told

an American Embassy Mosco» official that he had been black mailed and

framed into going to the USSR. See Moscow Emb tele A-572, 23 October 1962,

and 851, 23 March 1962.

3. Army security investigations as immediate cause of defection,

Per USAREUR Case Summary 2-62-2, DUTKANICZ told American

Embassy Moscow officials that he had informed his KGS handler that he was

under inveatigation for security reasons. He defected soon after, in accord

with a KGB suggestion that he do so.

SLOBODA's defection was precipitated by increased Army

security meanures, according to BEVISION.

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Lee H. Wigren

G/SA/GI/R

Distribution:

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SR/CI/R:J. Curtigicl 2 October 1964

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