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CONF: CIC/CEX-3

INFO: C/ORMO, CICEDC, CIDORECORD, DOCHRONO, DOOPS,

MDSX, ODPD, ORMS/CI,

FILE, C/CIC, CE/RBI, CED/CIC, CETE/W-5, CETE/W/BAL,

CIC/CEG, CIC/CEI, CIC/CLFL, CIC/EOB, CIC/ISB, CIC/OG-4, CIC/PRB, CIC/TA,

DC/CE, DC/CIC, DDO-2 (28/P)

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VILNIUS.

FROM: CIC/CEX INFO CIC/PRB, CETF/W/BAL.

SLUGS: WNINTEL TAZZACEX LWOPUS

SUBJECT: WASHINGTON TIMES ARTICLE RE KGB OFFER TO HOLLYWOOD

REF:

A. DIRECTOR 283424 (92 7575137)

B.

VILNIUS 10599 (92 7801082)

C. VILNIUS 10578 (92 7735236)

TEXT:

ACTION REQUIRED: FYI.

2.

FOLLOWING ARTICLE APPEARED IN THE 27 MARCH EDITION OF

THE "WASHINGTON TIMES:"

"THE KGB SPIES WHO CAME IN FOR THE GOLD

"MOSCOW:

ON THE 'STREET OF TRUTH, ' RETIRED KGB

SECRET AGENTS CAME TO TELL ALL.

"WITH NO HINT OF SHAME, THE COLD WAR SPY MASTERS

SAID THEIR MEMOIRS CAN BE HAD FOR CASH--ON EVERYTHING

FROM<LEE HARVEY OSWALD>TO KIM PHILBY AND THE SPY RING

THAT STOLE THE SECRETS OF THE ATOM BOMB FROM AMERICA.

"'THE IDEA THAT ALL PEOPLE WHO ENGAGE IN ESPIONAGE

ARE VERY RICH IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE, ' SAID ANATOLY PRIVALOV,

VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE ASSOCIATION

OF KGB VETERANS OF

FOREIGN ESPIONAGE, OR FIVA, AS THE RUSSIANS CALL IT.

"MR. PRIVALOV AND THREE COLLEAGUES FROM THE ELITE OF

KGB ESPIONAGE CAME NOT OUT OF THE COLD BUT OUT OF THE

RAIN WEDNESDAY TO THE OFFICES OF KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA ON

ULITSA PRAVDA (TRUTH STREET) .

"THEY TOLD REPORTS OF THEIR PLANS TO ENTER THE

CAPITALISI WORLD THAT THEY TRIED TO VERY HARD TO

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UNDERMINE DURING THEIR CLOAK-AND- DAGGER

DAYS.

"FEAR OF POVERTY HAD SPURRED THE RETIRED SPIES TO

SIGN UP WITH THE HOLLYWOOD FIRM ENTERTAINMENT AND

COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS ASSOCIATION TO PEDDLE THEIR

INSIDE HISTORY OF THE COLD WAR FOR FILMS, MINISERIES AND

DOCUDRAMAS.

"'DUE TO THE PRESENT CONFUSION IN OUR COUNTRY,

OF THE VETERANS ARE IN A VERY DIFFICULT (FINANCIAL)

SITUATION, ' MR. PRIVALOV SAID.

"OLEG NECHIPERENKO, A 25-YEAR KGB VETERAN, SAID HIS

FORTHCOMING BOOK WILL GIVE DETAILS OF HIS TWO MEETINGS

WITH<LEE HARVEY OSWALD>IN MEXICO CITY TWO MONTHS BEFORE

OSWALD SHOT<PRESIDENT KENNEDY.>

"THE OSWALD MEETINGS TOOK PLACE SEPT. 27-28, 1963,

ON THE INITIATIVE OF OSWALD, SAID MR. NECHIPERENKO, THEN

KGB STATION CHIEF IN MEXICO CITY.

"'HIS MOOD WAS BAD, ' SAID MR. NECHIPERENKO.

"BUT, HE TEASED, 'THE OSWALD HE MET IN MEXICO CITY

WAS THE SAME ONE WHO WAS IN DALLAS.

"ANOTHER NECHIPERENKO TIDBIT: TWO OTHER KGB MEN

WERE PRESENT AT THE INTERVIEW AND AN OPERATIVE IN MOSCOW

WAS KEPT ABREAST OF THE DISCUSSIONS.

"EXHIBITING FAMILIARITY WITH OLIVER STONE'S MOVIE

‹'JFK,' ›MR. NECHIPERENKO SAID HE WOULD AGREE WITH ' SOME OF

THE CONCLUSIONS OF JAMES GARRISON, ' BUT ONLY BASED ON THE

FORMER NEW ORLEANS DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S BOOK, NOI ON ANY

EVIDENCE.

"IF HE HAD THE DOCUMENTS, MR. NECHIPERENKO SAID, HE

COULD GIVE A BETTER VERDICT.

OF COURSE, NO TALK OF SUCH

* AN<ASSASSINATION>TOOK PLACE IN MEXICO CITY AND THERE WAS

NO ENCOURAGEMENT OF SUCH A DEED, HE SAID.

"MR. NECHIPERENKO HAS BEEN TROTTED OUT BEFORE BY THE

KGB ALONG WITH YURI MODIN, THE HANDLER OF KIM PHILBY,

BRITISH MASTER SPY WHO

WORKED FOR THE SOVIETS.

DIED IN MOSCOW IN 1988.

"THE NEW FACE SHOWN WEDNESDAY WAS ANATOLY YAZKOV,

CODE-NAMED 'YAKOVLEV' IN HIS WORLD

AMERICA WHEN HE HELPED RUN THE SPY RING THAT GAVE JOSEF

STALIN THE ATOM BOMB.

IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL

ESPIONAGE PENETRATIONS IN HISTORY.

"BUT MR. YAZKOV, BEYOND ADMITTING THAT HE WORKED OUT

OF THE RUSSIAN CONSULATE AT 7 E. 6IST SI. IN NEW YORK

CITY, ACROSS FROM THE HOTEL PIERRE, WAS SINGULARLY

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RETICENT.

"ASKED IF JULIUS AND ETHEL ROSENBERG, WHO WERE

EXECUTED IN 1953 FOR PASSING ATOMIC SECRETS, WERE INDEED

GUILTY, MR. YAZKOV SAID HE PREFERRED 'NOT TO TALK ABOUT

PEOPLE WHO TOOK PART IN THIS OR MIGHT HAVE TAKEN PART IN

THIS.

"IT WAS NOT THE BEST ADVERTISEMENT FOR HIS

FORTHCOMING WORK.

"WHEN ASKED IF HE MISSED THE COLD WAR, MR. YAZKOV

REPLIED, 'THANK GOD THAT IT IS OVER.'

"UNCONTRITE, HE INSISTED HE WAS 'NOT SPYING AGAINST

AMERICA, BUT IN SUPPORT OF THE SOVIET UNION IN ORDER TO

BALANCE THE TWO POWERS.'

"ABOUT 5,000 FORMER KGB OPERATIVES ARE

MEMBERS OF

THE

ASSOCIATION.

"'WHEN A PERSON LEAVES HIS POST, HE IS LEFT ALL

ALONE, ' SAID MR. PRIVALOV, A 42-YEAR

ORDER THAT PEOPLE WILL NOT FEEL THEMSELVES ABANDONED, WE

DECIDED TO UNITE AND TO ORGANIZE A CLUB WHERE VETERANS

COULD COME TO RELAX, TO DRINK A BEER OR A WHISKEX, AS THE

ASSOCIATION OF THE CIA DOES.

"INSTEAD OF FEELING SORRY FOR THEMSELVES, THE FORMER

CLOAK-AND-DAGGER MEN WILL WORK ON A FILM ABOUT THE ATOM

BOMB SPY RING; A TV MINISERIES ABOUT U.S. NAVY EMPLOYEE

GLENN MICHAEL SOUTHER, A SOVIET SPY WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE

IN MOSCOW IN 1989; AND A DOCUMENTARY ON OSWALD'S BIZARRE

RELATIONSHIP WITH THE KGB.

"DOCUDRAMAS ON THE<ASSASSINATION>OF LEON TROTSKY AND

THE CASE OF NATO OFFICIAL ROBERT LEE JOHNSON, KNOWN AS

"THE AMERICAN KIM PHILBY, ' ARE ALSO PLANNED."

FOR THE RECORD, WE HAVE NOTED THAT SOME SIMILAR

THREADS RUN THROUGHL BOTH THIS ARTICLE AND THE THORUS CASE.

A. THE TIMING OF THE OFFER BY THE FIVA GROUP ON

WEDNESDAY,

FALLS DIRECTLY INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE

WINDOW ESTABLISHED BY LWOPUS (24-26 MARCH) .

ALSO, IWOPUS

NOTED THAT IF THERE WERE ANY DOUBTS ABOUT GETTING THE

MANUSCRIPI-ACROSS THE LITHUANIAN BORDER, HE WOULD RESORT TO A

RESERVE VARIANT BUT WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF OTHER PARTIES,

I.E..

HE WOULD APPROACH SOMBONE ELSE

IWOPUS SENT A SAMPLE OF HIS WORK TO US NOT FOR

PUBLICATION BUT FOR A CRITICAL READING.

HE STATED THAT IF A

PUBLISHING HOUSE SHOWED INTEREST IN HIS MANUSCRIPI, AGREEMENT-

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REACHED REGARDING JOINT ACTIONS AND MUTUAL LEGAL

COMMITMENTS. ALTHOUGH-MONETARI COMPENSATIONIS-IMPLIED,-

LWOPUS DOES NOT MENTION ANY SPECIFIC SUM, RATHER HE SUGGESTS

THAT HE IS WILLING TO ENTER INTO SOME SORT OF CONTRACTUAL

AGREEMENT.

THIS IS COMPATIBLE WITH WHAT THE FIVA GROUP

APPEARS TO BE ATTEMPTING.

THE FIVA GROUP STATES IN NO

UNCERTAIN TERMS THAT THEY NEED MONEY.

IN EACH CASE THERE APPEARS TO BE A LARGE VOLUME

IWOPUS STATED THAT UP TO NOW HE HAS PREPARED

SEVEN FOLDERS ON FOURTEEN COUNTRIES AND FORESEES WRITING

25 SMALL BOOKS OR EPISODES ON DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.

THE FIVA

GROUP ALSO IMPLIES THAT A LARGE VOLUME OF MATERIAL EXISTS.

LWOPUS CLAIMS THAT HIS WRITINGS WERE BASED ONLY ON DOCUMENTARY

SOURCES.

THE FIVA GROUP MAKES NO SUCH CLAIM, BUT IMPLIES THAT

THEIR MATERIAL IS FROM PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE.

D. BASED UPON THE GEOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY OF THE

MATERIAL AND THE TIME SPAN IT ENCOMPASSES, WE SUSPECT THE

LWOPUS MANUSCRIPT MIGHT BE A JOINT EFFORT.

IF IT IS NOT A

JOINT EFFORT, COLLECTION MUST HAVE BEEN GOING ON FOR A LONG

TIME BY SOMEONE WITH EXCELLENT ACCESS TO ARCHIVAL MATERIAL.

THE FIVA GROUP IS A COMMON EFFORT OF AT LEAST FOUR

PROBABLY MORE RETIRED KGB OFFICERS.

LWOPUS NOTED THAT HE IS CONCERNED FOR HIS SAFETY

AND THAT OF HIS FAMILY.

HIS FAILURE TO SHOW AT THE EMBASSY IN

VILNIUS DURING THE WINDOW MIGHT BE THE RESULT OF HIS CONCERN.

AMBASSADOR JOHNSON STATED THAT HE HAD ALREADY ALERTED THE

EMBASSY, INCLUDING THE LITHUANIAN ESN IN HIS OFFICE, THAT THEY

BE ALERT FOR THE RETURN OF THE LWOPUS MESSENGER.

IWOPUS BECAME AWARE THAT THE LITHUANIAN EMPLOYEE HAD BEEN TOLD

TO WATCH FOR THE MESSENGER, HE MAY HAVE ELECTED NOT TO RETURN.

IN SUCH CASE, ASSUMING THAT YURASOV IS CONNECTED WITH THE FIVA

GROUP, THEIR OFFER TO THE HOLLYWOOD FIRM MAY BE AN ALTERNATE

PLAN.

IN EACH CASE, THE MATERIAL PRESENTED WOULD HAVE

APPEAL FOR THE GROUP TO WHICH IT IS OFFERED, I.E., THE OFFER

TO US OF INTELLIGENCE RELATED SNIPPETS REGARDING IN-PLACE

AGENTS VS THE OFFER TO THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY OF THE MORE

SPECTACULAR CASES THAT WOULD APPEAL TO A MASS AUDIENCE.

THE NAME OF YAZKOV (TRUE NAME, ANATOLIY YAKOVLEV)

IS SIMILAR TO YURASOV.

ALTHOUGH IT IS CERTAINLY NOT TRUE IN

EVERY CASE, THE FORMER SOVIETS FREQUENTLY USED COVER NAMES

SIMILAR TO OR WHICH HAD THE SAME FIRST LETTER AS THEIR OWN

H. IWOPUS IS OBVIOUSLY HEDGING HIS BETS. HEATSO-

MENTIONED THAT HE HAD MADE IWO PREVIOUS UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS

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TO CONTACT US.

ALTHOUGH WE HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO CONFIRM EITHER

OF THESE-ATTEMPTS, IT-IS-NOTEWORTHY THAT-THE-MANUSER IPT HE-

PROVIDED TO US WAS A CARBON.

BASED ON THE QUALITY, WE BELIEVE

THAT IT WAS NOT CARBON NUMBER ONE.

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WE ARE CURRENTLY CHECKING THE FILES OF THE FOUR FIVA

OFFICERS TO ASCERTAIN WHETHER THEIR BACKGROUNDS MIGHT OFFER

THEM ACCESS TO THE SAME INFORMATION THAT LWOPUS PROVIDED.

ALSO PLAN IO COMPARE THE MATERIAL WE RECEIVED FROM LWOPUS TO

SEE IF THE FILES OF THESE FOUR OFFICERS INDICATE THAT THEY HAD

CONTACTS SIMILAR TO ANY OF THOSE MENTIONED IN THE IWOPUS

MATERIAL. WE WILL ADVISE YOU OF THE RESULTS OF OUR RESEARCH.

5. WELCOME VILNIUS COMMENTS.

6. FILE: 201-1478016. DECL OADR DRV HUM 4-82 .>

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