The Ukrainian Weekly 1982, No.4
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www.ukrweekly.com `4 ТНЕ І СВОБОДА^SVOBODA І І Ukrainian WeeH Y PUBUSHED BY THE UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION INC, A FRATERNAL. NON-PROFIT ASSOCIATION Vol. t No. 4 THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 1982 25 cent New York reported swarming with Soviet spies Ontario legislator NEW YORK - According to FBI many such "sleepers" are secretly at Valuable as agents is that those accuses Soviet paper sources, the Soviet Union and its ' work in the U.S., but sources indicate 'attached to the Secretariat can travel satellites have turned New York into that many are known to the FBI and freely around the country. They are of "vicious" slander the spy capital of the world, and the are kept under quiet surveillance. immune to the restrictions imposed number of known agents and sus on East-bloc diplomats attached to TORONTO - In remarks made pected ones is growing at a rate that The emigre community also provi embassies and consulates. If they before a recent session of the Ontario has already outpaced the number of des potential recruits into the ranks should be caught, they plead diplo Legislature, Provincial MP Yuri U.S. counterintelligence agents as of the Soviet spy network, particu matic immunity, and the best the Shymko (P.C.-High Park-Swansea) signed to weed them out larly if they have found life in U.S. government can do is request asked the province's attorney general to America less than rewarding, or are investigate what he labelled "vicious In an article in the January 18 issue that they be sent back to their native in need of money. countries. attacks" on his character which ap of U.`S: News and World Report, But the new arrivals are not the peared in two issues of the Soviet William D. Hartley paints a grim That is precisesly what happened only potential targets for KGB re to Vladimir Zinyakin, a member of publication News from Ukraine, a picture of Soviet infiltration of the cruiters. Soviet spies routinely scour government newspaper distributed only United Nations and, in some cases, the Soviet Mission to the United the diplomatic, military or industrial Nations, when he was caught trying outside the USSj(fchat has a circulation many of the leading high-technology ranks for possible candidates who of 100,000 in Canada. corporations and financial institu to buy secrets to anti-submarine may have access to sensitive informa warfare in 1978. In his statement, Mr. Shymko re- tions which help make New York the tion. They look for weaknesses to " ferred to two articles: "The Career of a business center of the world. Communist agents go after many exploit, usually a desire for money. types of information, but according Politico," published two weeks before the federal elections in 1979 in which Attorney General William French Once contact is made, Mr. Hartley to FBI Director Webster, the "major Smith warned in a speech on Decem thrust" of Soviet and Soviet-bloc Mr. Shymko was a candidate, and "The reports, the recruit is provided with True Face of Mr. Shymko," that ap ber 18: "Over the MM dozen years, the cameras or other devices needed for agents is high-technology transfer. number of official representatives of peared after Mr. Shymko's election to his work arid, in the final stage, the provincial Parliament last March. governments with hostile intelligence communicates with his contact in Since embargos forbid the sale of activities in our country has in most highly technological equipment Both articles accuse Mr. Shymko of directly via secret "dead drops" for belonging to the "League for the Libera creased by 400 percent." messages, through intermediaries or, to the Soviet Union, equipment that they desperately want and need given tion of Ukraine," branding the organi FBI Director William H. Webster increasingly, in visits to foreign zation an offshoot of "Banderite" countries. their lag in research and develop was even more specific, reporting ment, Soviet spies have engaged in fascists, and its members as "Hitlerite that 35 percent of so-called diplo According to the author, the So elaborate schemes to steal and henchmen."The first piece also labelled mats from unfriendly nations are viets are not only the most active smuggle such information out of the Mr. Shymko an "anti-Semite." actually professional spies. On an spies in New York, but also the most country. It should be noted that News from ABC network telecast on January 3, numerous. More than 700 Soviet One method mentioned by Mr. Ukraine is published in both English he said there has been "a rather citizens work in the Soviet mission at Hartley is to deal through other and Ukrainian for foreign consump extensive increase" recently in the the United Nations, in the U.N. countries, or even through Western tion, and routinely included among the number of "foreign intelligence- Secretariat or in the Soviet Union's nationals, to buy an American item tame, propaganda articles on life in trained individuals here, mostly various civilian agencies such as the and then transship it to the Soviet Ukraine are turgid and vicious attacks under diplomatic coverage." Amtorg Trading Company, the Union through another country. on Ukrainian nationalists in the West. Aeroflot airline and the TASS news Noting that News from Ukraine lies As Mr. Hartley noted, with seme agency. About 35 percent - or more Mr. Hartley offers an example: A beyond the scope of Canadian libel 3,000 persons attached to Communist than 200 — are considered by Russian-born businessman, Anatoly laws, Mr. Shymko, who is the chair diplomatic establishments in the Western intelligence agencies to be (Tony) Maluta, was convicted in Los man of the Ontario Council on Multi- United States, Mr. Webster's 35 active spies. Angeles last October of exporting culturalism and Citizenship, said that percent spy rate would mean a total millions of dollars' worth of restrict he was raising the issue in Parliament, of more than 1.000 diplomat spies — Soviet agents in New York operate ed high-technology electronic gear "because my safety and the safety of my each of whom could be supervising under the direction of Vladimir that ostensibly was consigned to family are threatened through the several agents. Kazakov, 49, local chief of the KGB. West Germany but wound up in allegations" made in the articles. Mr. Kazakov's cover title is deputy Soviet-bloc countries. He recalled that on June 6, 1979, he According to the author, the Big permanent representative to the Apple has become such a popular spy was approached by the first secretary of United Nations under Ambassador Occasional successes are also the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa and press base because many of the Kremlin's Oleg Troyanovsky. reported in nabbing spies dealing in prime targets are located here. Be representatives from Izvestia, Novosti military secrets. On December 15, for Press and Pravda. sides the U.N. offices, business and The Soviet's top spy in the United example, a Polish national named financial institutions, and hi-tech States, Dmitri 1. Yakushkin, also has "They told me frankly that I should Marian W. Zacharski was sentenced never run in an election in this country," industries, New York has recently a diplomatic cover - as counselor to life in prison for buying secret become home for thousands of Rus at the Soviet Embassy in Washington. Mr. Shymko told his colleagues. "They defense documents from an Ameri interfered directly by dictating to me sian emigres, many of them living in He is reported planning to return to can. The American, William Holden the Brighton Beach section of Moscow soon, after a six-year Wash that I not become involved in the free Bell, was sentenced to eight years in electoral process." Brooklyn. ington assignment, according to Mr. prison. Hartley. But after the 1981 provincial election, Among these immigrants, the U.S. Last September, Joseph George the second article, "The True Face of New .York's Soviet spies work Helmich, Jr., pleaded guilty to con government believes, are some/ from the Soviet Mission to the Yuri Shymko," was published. Among "sleeper" agents being planted here spiring to sell military secrets to the United Nations in midtown Man other-things, the article compares Mr. to meld into American life and later Soviets. Shymko and, by association, all Ukrai emerge as spies. fr hattan and from a recently completed apartment house in the plush River- But even with such notable nian nationalists, with the assassins who "We know there are persons who dale section at the northern tip of the successes, the author concluded, the tried to kill Pope John Paul II and got out of Russia only on their Bronx. outlook for effectively curbing Soviet President Ronald Reagan. promise to cooperate when they get The roof of that apartment, the intelligence inroads in New York Harping on Mr. Shymko's involve here," the author quotes R. Jean author reports, bristles with antennae and, indeed, the United States, is ment with the "League for the Libera Gray, head of the local FBI section for sophisticated gear to eavesdrop bleak. As one FBI agent put it: tion of Ukraine," the article said: "Only that keeps an eye on the Soviets, as on American telephone conversa "What worries me is that the other through their (Banderite) efforts the saying. tions. side totally and absolutely out league — a legal cell of criminals and Officials refuse to estimate how One reason U.N. diplomats are so numbers us 10 to I." lawbreakers -r- was founded in 1949. (Continued on pafe 13) X THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY SUNDAY. JANUARY 24, 1982 No.