NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: CIA WITHHELD VITAL INTELLIGENCE FROM WARREN
Agency: CIA
Originator: OPEN
Document date: 10/21/1964
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Inside Washington

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CIA Withheld Vital Intelligence From Warr

By ROBERT S. ALLEN

cials who actively oppose

on has yet

And PAUL SCOTT

*Soviet

policies.

against

to

any

be

used

dismissal of such persons

liquid

high

West-

from public office, at oth-

form.

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Titled

*Soviet Strategic

ern official,

hundreds of

times even having

• within ser

WASHINGTON,

Oct. 20.

Executive

Action,"

the

KGB agents

covertly op-

them ' "eliminated'

physio

autopsy.we

-The Central Intelli-

suppressed

CIA

docu-

erating outside of

Russia

cally.

ils

use.

gence

Agency

withheld

vital.

intelligence

infor

ment went into the shock-

have been

supplied

with

"Such

activities

are

•poisons hai

ing details of how agents.

this

pocket-size,

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*known to be undertaken

mation

from

ed which

the Warren

of KGB, the Soviet secret

a waiting

orders

types of

until

•Commission during its in-

vestigation

of

the

assas

police,

only.

against other

fect

are trained to do

from Moscow to use it.

away

persons in the West, not-.-after being

with Western lead-

The

Murder Weapons

defectors from

"thus allowi.

sination.

of President

ers, including officials in

ably

the

Kennedy.

the

HIGHLIGHTS

of

the

U.S.S.R

and

from

other

• to be

far f

U.S.,

and to

Inake

suppressed

intelligence

countries of

the

Soviet:

when

his s

Despite

sion's

the commis

their deaths appear due

estimate, which is locked

bloc.

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written request for

to natural causes,

in a security area within

"One recently reported

source

has

all documents that might

One of the KGB's new-

the tightly-guarded CIA,

assassination technique is

pneumatica®

shed light

on the assas

devised

assassination

are

as

follows:

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poison

sination,

ice

CIA authorities

wapons *is

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failed. to turn over a na-

luring

cally operated poison ice..

has

been

that the KGB

reported

ual

him

endeavors

use a teleprine, connect.

which

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or other

tional

intelligence

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"atomizer,'

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leaves

to remove the thrent to

ed to a high-voltage wire,

_cause or de

warning

that it is

wound or other evi-

Soviet interests posed by

Kremlin policy

to remove

dence of the

cause of-

from public office by as

death."*

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during

a thunderstorm.

Congressi

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gators,

whe

ern governments, som e-

of

involves

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Western offi-

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times

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point.

out that

he State

Department

suppressed evidence link-

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its

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employes, - #to

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security. files,

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Soviet

strong pro

views

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question

every

that

in

came • up

the Department

U.S.S.R. cointry commit.

tee"

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nember

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his State Department

pears

name also

ap

eared

the

address

pos oi a suspected So

viet

agent

TYRO

arrived

in the

U.S.

in 1943, ac.

cording to." government

files.

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gators

also

have

been

hocked so discover tha

officials.

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cated

ant

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he is on

the list of

Western

cials feared by the Krem

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no

CIA

authorit

has shown the No. 2 man

• In goverment the

report

listing these

• cret

'Soviet assassination

methods.

instead,

Me C ormack

learned about the report

only

recently from

gressional

probers

Who

are The to eterne

document has

been suppressed.

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investigators

zlso

are trying

to

why the

determine

CIA In its

pre

assassination

report

to

the State Department

•Oswald's trip

to

on

Mexico

City

gave detals

only

the defector's visit to the

Russian embassy

and

the

Cuban embassy.

not

The

CIA did

not report

the

latter

visit

until

after

Kennedy's

assassination

in

Dallas.

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