THE WASHINGTON POST Defectors Betrayed Most Soviet Intelligence By Susan Cornwell "From 1960 to 1980, three KGB officers to the contrary—of maintaining a strong Renter defected to the West," Kalugin wrote in clandestine presence in every Soviet insti- Komsomolskaya Pravda, the Communist tution and organization. MOSCOW, July 3—The KGB has little youth newspaper. "And since 1980, about The KGB—the Russian intiials for Com- left to hide because most of its secrets have 20 people betrayed the country; the latest mittee for State Security—responded with been taken abroad by a score of defectors defector went to Belgium this spring. So we a sharp attack in the Communist newspaper • since 1980, a former top-level KGB official can speak not about a leak of information, Pravda saying that Kalugin had embarked said in an article published here today. but about the transfer and sale to the West on the road to treachery and that weakness Former KGB Maj. Gen. Oleg Kalugin- of the majority of secrets of Soviet intelli- of character lay behind his disclosures. who was stripped of his rank and decora- gence, about the complete collapse of a The Pravda article portrayed Kalugin as tions earlier this week for making other huge number of spy networks." an ineffective official whose blunders had public revelations about the secret intelli- Kalugin, who says he was forced to retire caused Soviet intelligence to lose one of its gence and police agency—said also that in in March after a falling out with his supe- most prized agents inside the CIA. But the seven years he headed counter-espio- riors, accused the KGB last month of trying Kalugin, in his article today, said there had nage operations abroad the KGB had failed to discredit populist Communist politician been no such agent. He was stripped of his to infiltrate the CIA with even one under- Boris Yeltsin and Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov, rank and medals Saturday in orders signed cover operative. and—despite the security agency's claims by President Mikhail Gorbachev. WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1990 A27 1 Secrets, KGB Ex-Official Says Komsomolskaya Pravda also published a Kryuchkov, a member of the Communist letter today from several Soviet legislators Party's ruling Politburo, warned that the urging an investigation of Kalugin's disclo- Soviet Union should not be lulled into a sures about the KGB. The letter urged that sense of false security by changes in inter- the legislature, or Supreme Soviet, examine national relations or reform at home. The the KGB's budget, operations and methods West is still spending more on intelligence and find out how it is controlled and to what than Moscow, he said. extent it still penetrates public organiza- "Foreign spies cost us millions of rubles, tions. and dozens of agents have been unmasked Meanwhile, KGB chief Vladimir Kryuch- in recent times, some of them, regrettably, kov defended his agency's work in a speech Soviet citizens," he said. "The five years of perestroika show that to the 28th Soviet Communist Party Con- socialism and democracy need protection. gress here today, telling the delegates that We believe it is our most important task to it is unmasking foreign agents by the dozens thwart the criminal activity of instigators and is still needed to help round up domes- and extremists." He made no mention of tic "instigators and extremists." Kalugin's allegations. .