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home In Woking onn his capacity as Russian expert and interpreter.
iand theduring the past few years. He reckons he hastotal of one year in the USSR alone. The Soviets haveplain to fJfffflH fron lha first that they consider hima suspicious character, and they have toldwould much prefer to deal with a Nevertheless, aside from one or twotempt him with an attractive woman they have notand aasffsfssfJ had felt that the Soviets were more orto his frequent appearances In the USSR on"
As we alreadyith thedelegation the entire time, and was the GKKNR official in charge of the group. Most of the other Committee officials with whom they had dealings were technical apeclallsts in the
and paper field. BSBaBaBaBaaaW was very clearly In charge, and all the other Soviets deferred to him on all subjects except technical ones. would drop out cf thewhenever itechnical turn.
U,. On the train from Moscow to Leningrad, bbbbbbbbbbbbsV
asked astsBssssleception would be given by thefor the delegation, to which the Sovietwould be inviteo^^Bl^Pl replied that nowas planned, ssssfsssn Hoald that it would beidea to arrange one, and that Mr. Hlllafy KING and should be Invited. assssssaaV* again in Leningrad, and once again on the trainto Moscow. Worn downupon
returning to Moscow sssssssfM werittoB^^Msf to ask him whal hc thought of thesaid that he was willing to arrangeeception, but that because of the short notice he thought it should be quite informal and that it would be simpler to leave the British out of it, particularly since Hillary KING was out of town,nyherJ)ers were AMERICANS. ssbbbbbbbbbTi and_Mm wrotehort guest list consisting of the delegation, the appropriate GKKNR officials and a_ few membersC*gl_tbp fhrcMraw
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and It was agreed that invitations verbally towould relay the Soviet t'3WW
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When bbsBbsIor, Friday, January
immediately brought up the subject of the |HIHtold him that it was arranged for that eveningaskedl HBnaeal to pass on the Invitations to the Soviet concerned. bbbbbbbbbbbbsbj asked If Mr. KING andcoming and seemed quite unhappy when he learned thatnot. explanations as to why they hadtrictly Soviet-American affair did not appearhim. BBBsnssnanoB1 (vhon
he described aseard) should be invited.
6. The reception took place that evening and went off very well. Accord Ingto|MH| all ths Sovietests seer.ed very pleased except |whichittle strange after all the pressure he had applied to arrange it in the first place, bsssbsbssI did not notice anything else aboutbehavior at thehis point wasly^Igitlv7. An Interesting point Is that nobody had met
LOPATENKi be!came uninvited, and
was clearly the ranking Soviet official present. LOPATENKO la in his fifties, speaks English fairly well, andleasant personality. The Soviets came and leftroup, and it was LOPATENKO who gave the signal for departure. The reception lasted about If hours.
On the evening of learned that ,
their scheduled flight for Warsaw the following day had beenmoved up from noon to early morning. Since they did not know
BasssBBsnssssf - aware of thisried to reach him at home. No one knewhome^ or tclo^hcruand it proved impossible to obta ln them; HbbbbbhI does not know whether this was because LMLSHbH is not listed in the directory or because he doesn'telephone a* home,was finally able to get in touch with VASENKO, one of the GKKNR paper specialists, who allegedly went to sssssssssssssnsni home with the message.
the door and came ln alone. bbsbbsbbsIbbbbI led sbbbbbssbIysterious manner and proceeded to turn ontaps. He then said, "You must do something for me aaupor. return to London, to send a
telegramertain cable address with the following message:
"Please meet me signed Andy."
BBBBSs1 must provide the time, date and
8. 5 the following morning (Sunday^Januarywas packing in his hotel roc knocked
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to suit himself, andan (undescrlbed) wouldthere at the appointed timethen to givethe following message ftot. mm "Budtechto mashyna/three letters/ sleduyet ra vaml
i onl smotryat na vas vae vremya seychas.*1 /Be careful
because carfollowing you and they are watching you
all the time atall this down in his
notebook, but by the timebbbV had finished he knewdid not want to undertake such anJust
started to voice his objections when the porter came for the baggage and no further conversation'was possible. On the way to the ali seemed to be ln unusually good spirits.
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At the airport, while they were going throughandaaaattalan ln civiliana green hat,ecurity type, who waswatching the delegation closely. bvbbbbbbbI hassurveillance of this sort at any of his manyfrom the Soviet Union. When the processingIHbbbbbi had to exchange money tc pay for excess . To do so, he had to go to the bank which Is located ifferent building. him. Onback LmsBBBBBBV stopped andbbbbbbbbbbV that he couldhis message for him, that heusinessman andwant to be involved with something thatlearof Soviet law, etc. was stunned; whenImpressed on him that he would definitely not request hereturn the paper on which he
had written down thethe paper several
and handed the pieces to BeeeBBBBBaBeV seemed
extremely upset. He askel BafBaBBf[to be sure to ring him up (BeTeBBBBml has his office telephone number) upon his return tc Moscow ln several weekshere was no furtherbetween them.
quite dark when this scene took place sure that no one could have observed orno longer, remembers the telegraphic ittandard commercial one-word gave "AMFITREX" as anollowed
forgotton the plate number of the car in that lt consisted of three letters, but remembered the message itself word for
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were sitting alone in the compartment nMHBkTJ pulled butradio (hewas Japanese), turned
the volume up high and tolddon't like your
being hereou hnow toond, "be careful, theyyour
aoed deal
about himself. HbsbbI way. able to recallIbVetired Army colonel, that he was at one time the assistant military attache to Turkey, that he is married,ixteen year old daughter, and that his wife is six monthsieJias been to England and France with delegations.
also mentioned that he worked with an electronics delegation several weeks beforedoe; not know the nationality of thisnd that he was planning toroup to Switzerland for the auto show in the latter
lf'5rch'add,ed. however, that the Swissnot come off because "the Swiss are verv
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asbbbaabslh mentioned several times that he toroup to the United States and that heapplied fcr histhat I |m
already had the Itinerary for this trip: they are to arrive 1in New York onrnd will proceed to Seattle to pend about three weeks at the World Fair. They will also visit Washington and perhaps Sar. Francisco. was not sure about the exact sequence of cities and did not know what character the group would have; he did have the impression that the entire trip would last four to five weeks. This
omnon talk among the other GKKNR members. SHVARTS said that he was looking forward to it as he had never been in. The trip was also mentionedirl interpreter who was filling in for SHVfiRTS one afternoon: she said that she was dying tc go tout that aaaaaaaaaav would never take her, he would take SHVARTS.
lu,. naanaav was intrigued by anbaaananaansnnl apparentthe presence of other Soviets he was the typical anquet in Leningrad he dot
ilitant speech about peace and friendship that ould well serveodel of Its type. On the othern anenahh was alone wi thor withthermembershe would make very candid and unusual remarks. He told McGOvXRN that MOLOTOV wasnd that there was no chance whatsoever that he would ever return to Vienna. He also told them that "We are giving the Chinese so much aid that we are beginning to wonder if they won't bleed us to death. Our relations with therr. are very^bad." said
. up to the scene at the airport Just before departure
appeared to be In good spirits throughout, and In full command of the situation. ^
described SKVART5 as being one ol GKKNR interpreters. His English is quiteassigned to thedelegation ns Interpret. did not actually spend much time with themspoke Russian. For example, he did not go tothe group although he was originally scheduled to dodid help out with interpreting in Moscow on thosebbbbbbbTI was busy at TEKHMASHINIMPORT oris aboutears old. Is aggressive, His relations withappeared to be good, and
towards BeeBBBBBBetfll with the respectonsiderably more senior official.
riginally billed astour. However, from the very beginning of theirthe USSR the Soviets said that they wanted it to befor an exchange delegation to. on abasishat of visiting mills. Therefore,proposed to enlargeelegation'sinclude visits to some paper mills. In practice,downisit to oneondensor paperLeningrad. The Soviets then tried to blow thiseturn visitoviet delegation to tenlatest sulfite mills in. The lead inby ORLOV, the newly-appointed chairman ofaper,orestry, and wasby all the GKKNR officials,cha-, urged BBBBBBBUBBBeTe1 not to agree tc such asince. mills involved representstate of the art, embodying equipment andIn advance of anything available to the Soviets inbut to insist that any return delegationikeMreported the details ofof the trip to BBsBBBBee feels that It that some sort of an exchange visitovietWill take place, but that lt will take monthson Its nature and on the timing and Itinerary.
did not ring upwhen hc was in
Moscow at the end of February and he has no Intention ofIn the future as he thinks the chanceso 1wasrovocation of some
not discussed the incident with anyone, and will not do so. He Is scheduled to go back to Moscow around the middle of May viththis willhort two- or three-day trio to
dlacuss penaltiesontract and will not Involve anywith GKKNR officials. has requested -on how he should act if ! turn uphim again. We have promised to give him some advicescore when we havehance to analyse hisand to compare lt with other recent Soviet overturesprovocations of American businessmen. IV^LaV promisedin touch with ftmsmssmssssl before going to the USSR Iftrip should come up before May. HasmVIrequested that the information he provided on
be used Inay that It could not reveal him as the source. He also requested that the fact that he reported to us at all be kept In strictest confidence, even within our organisation.
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