THE BanSmootReport Vol. 10, No. 12 (Broadcast 448) March 23, 1964 Dallas, Texas DAN SMOOT COMMUNIST SPIES IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT On February 4, 1964, Yuri Nossenko (high-ranking Soviet secret police official attending the Geneva Disarmament Conference as an "adviser" to the Soviet delegation) disappeared. Six days later, it was revealed that he had defected and had been granted asylum iri the United States.'" He is virtually in the custody of the Central Intelligence Agency and of the State Department; but members of Congress are concerned about his personal safety, because he is said to have given information about Soviet espionage agents inside the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Departments'' Nossenko revealed that some employees of United States, French, and British diplomatic and in telligence agencies are members of five Soviet spy rings operating throughout the "Western Hemi sphere, and that certain American businessmen, newspapermen, scientists, and others are also undercover communist spies. Nossenko has named names and given details. One of the five com munist spy rings allegedly operates in a very sensitive agency of the United States government.'-' Investigating committees of Congress have not yet been permitted to question Nossenko; and the Johnson administration apparently has done nothing about the information offered. The Soviets fear that Yuri Nossenko may give the West documents (such as cables from Mos cow to Soviet delegates at the disarmament conference in Geneva) proving that Soviet disarma- nient proposals are designed merely to deceive gullible liberals and to provide propaganda for the Soviets."' r r o To date, the most important result of the Nossenko Case is that it helped uncover an affair ^ ich the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations had concealed from Congress and cpublic for almost four years —an affair centering around a man who, for his own protection, ^scs the pseudonymn "Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Goleniewski." ^In September, 1958, Jacob D. Beam (U. S. Ambassador to communist Poland) began what State cpartment officials called "one of our more serious dialogues with a red Chinese delegation."'" addfe« REPORT, amagazine published every week by The Dan Smoot Report, Inc., mailing 6441 r * Lakewood Station, Dallas, Texas 75214; Telephone TAylor 1-2303 (office address class Subscription rates; $10.00 a year, $6.00 for 6 months, SI8.00 for two years. For first coDv f/f' (including APO and FPO) $14.50 a year. Reprints of specific issues; 1 sa\Jcs tax on all orders$1.00;originating50 for $5.50; in 100Texasforfor$10.00Texas—delivery.each price for bulk mailing to one person. Add "Copyright by Dan Smoot, 1964. Second class mail privilege authorized at Dallas, Texas. No reproductions permitted. Page 89 What the State Departmenl: ^gotiating with Soviets than any whom Goleniewski himself knew^ Chinese communists abouq and why com- about. Among these, was one American official munist Poland was chosen 3lace, have not in Poland, so important to the Soviets that they been disclosed. took a bold step to prevent his exposure.'"' The Soviets (intensely Ictufio about the ne- In i960, the Soviets themselves arranged to ex gotiations) got ten United Sl ai rines and four pose Irwin Scarbeck, a minor U. S. diplomat, who male members of the U. S. in Poland in- had become involved with Urszula Maria Discher volved with Polish women, s6 tbiat they could be a female communist agent. Obviously, the Soviets blackmailed for informatio f j , jwife of one hoped that the "surfacing" (exposure) of Scar- American diplomat in Waisay was seduced by beck would deceive Americans into thinking they an agent of the Sovietsecret plQli|ce. had exposed theentire communist operation inside A very high official of| the !5oM secret police the United States Embassy. If, thinking this, Amer (a Polish national, working for Soviet KGB icans stopped their investigation, the Soviets' most in Poland) called on an Ametjicj CIA agent in important undercover agent in the Embassy would Warsaw, saying he wanted tci <lp^ to the United be saved. Within a few months, however, Ameri States. The Pole did not giie his ::ue name, but can investigators had identified the Soviets' most called himself "LieutenanKibionid Michael Gol- important communist plant in the Warsaw Em eniewski." Golienewski revisaled :ttat there were bassy.'®' leaks of important securit)' ipfDrrRation to the Although this occurred in I960, the American Soviet secret police from the IJ. l[ Embassy. The public does not yet know who the American Em CIA agent told Goleniewski jL id not defect, bassy official was; but some details about him but should stay where he w<.; ^jve espionage have leaked out. His initials are "E. S." He was information to the Americans 1ewski agreed, bornMay 8, 1904, in GrandRapids, Michigan. He but some time later told the Cl ttla i his time was attended Marquette University and the University limited: information which ' giving to the of Warsaw. In 1939, he began a lifelong career Americans was leaking back to hi; in his capacity in the U. S. State Department, serving "with dis as a high official of the Sov t{e't police. Ob- tinction" (according to the Department's evalua viously, some Americans em in the U. S. tion) in many important posts, including posi Embassy and in the CIA we re dercover com- tions in the American foreign service at Berlin, munist agents.'®' Moscow, Vladivostok, Istanbul, Ankara, Ascun- Goleniewski knew some ie| communist cion, Poznan, and Warsaw. The Eisenhower State agents in the American ClA htate Depart- Department assigned him to the U. S. Embassy at ment, but not all. Apparentl) ^bfiised to iden- Warsaw on March 23, 1955. In rank, he was only tify any until he was pernc defect and two echelons below the Ambassador himself. This receive political asylum in thi; rnitjecl States. Gol- was the undercover communist agent whom the eniewski's defection to the U* tes occurred Soviets were trying to protect by the ruse of ex sometime in I960 (though ni] ing of the fact posing IrwinScarbeck, oneof theirAmerican State was ever voluntarily given 1:0 jxublic, or to Department agents of lesser importance. But, early Congress) (.-s) in 1961, American investigators identified "E.S.' He was recalled from Warsaw and questioned by Soviet secret police operal Otis, carefully com- the FBI and the CIA. Information was gathered partmentalized, anticipate de A defector from foreign cities where he had served "with dis (no matter how highly place C2m ever expose tinction" as a foreign service officer of the U. S. all spy rings and operations c 5B. The So- State Department. The information, supplemented viets feared, however, that C ski's revela- by lie-detector tests, constituted irrefutable evi tions might cause investigatiohs wttic •i would ex- dence that "E.S." was indeed an undercover com pose American communists mere iijr portant to the munist agent.'®' Page 90 In 1961, during the early months of tire Ken- , nedy administration, investigators submitted their nzing column, published March 11, 1964 Mr evidence to Attorney General Robert F. Ken Richards said; ' nedy. High officialdom in Washington ruled that there would be no prosecution against "E.S.," and of Jhfthe !!°''i!i°^htgh-levelkeepingAmericanburiedturncoatforever theandstorylhis' ordered that the case never be mentioned to any Ainerican mistress, who worked in the Warsaw one, not even to members of Congress. "E.S." was ab/n'/A " P"™'' motives behind thel permitted to resign quietly from the State Depart almost desperate attempts of the State Depart- ment, pick up his passport, and depart for Europe GoRn'* ^""^"'§once Agency to keep leaving his udfe in the United States. His brunette Imer/alInternal Securityf Subcommittee.before the Senate mistress (also an employee of the State Depart reasons behind these attempts are fear ment who had been working with "E S" in the ; US^ Embassy at Warsaw) had been recalled to ^he KGB (Soyet Secret Police),Americans12 workingin the Statefor Washington for questioning. When "E.S." left Department four m the CIA and three ih the the United States, his mistress obtained apassport U. o. scientific laboratories." . and departed, for pernranem residence in Europe Mr. Richards has not identified the 19 Ameri : as an American employed there.'" cans whom Goleniewski has thus far named as undercover communist spies in government iobs-( Shortly after the defector Goleniewski waT but, on March 5, 1964, Eesti Sona ("Free brought to the United States, he was taken to a Estonian Word"), an Estonian-language news room for his first secret conference with CIA paper published at Estonia House, 243 East 34th! agents. When he walked into the room, he recog- Street, New York, New York, named two of them. mzed an undercover communist in the group of I Will not repeat the names because I have no cor-j American investigators who were to query him robatmg evidence. One of the two had an im-j /I about communist spieshnside the American gov portant ambassadorial post under President Ken-I ernment Scared-, Goleniewski feighed illness and' nedy. The other was an Assistant Secretary of departed. Later, he reported the fact to a CIA ' State, whom President Johnson has praised highly agent whom he trusted. The undercover comi^Snist implying that he may also be appointed an am PP red. Goleniewski never saw him again, and bassador. ooes not know his real name/''' It has been obvious for years that communists, hidden mkey government jobs, have been direct ing American foreign policy. Look at the known ceal ''n administration managed to con- record of communists in government. Examine aiau information about Goleniewski and the also the consequences of American foreign policy. I96n/.uhad /•been totally concealedGoleniewskisfromdefection'inthe public, Air over the world has fielped commnn.^ts canhirp n^Hnnc ous p defection in 1964 was conspicu- ^ample: Algeria.