GIA-RDP96-007 Approved For Release 2001103126 87ROO0200080015-8 ie S0V* ts SaY U. So Reporter. Was Sliy prom ieews Dispatches 11 -their 'behavior - and d6err I @ 12-The"Sovittuo.ii d 'but M06 0W,,J* 4urned the` an film, can,7k added that Othis, . 101110daY accusid a former13 an indication of Ameri of hav- the difficulties of newsman here, Robert doing television in C. Toth, ing wor%ed for U.S. intelligencethe Soviet Union, even agen. on an innocu. I", cies and said that ous subject." it waa only. due to the@ &A od will Toth; who was'-permitted . andre@aiut!' of Sovietto leave 90 . 11; 1 1 the Soviet Union, on " June' 17, at the "'authorities -that criminal proce edings not R@Iged against scheduled end of his assignment, was 0FOUs4tion, came,inr,a lengthy_ secret in-' 441i first ac sed of'61lecting cu . formation Of a Political '71 and military pownientary- Uted, by the of- '4 @ fa4,t - Soviet, itews, character.,, . agenc Later, he was toid y, Tass. it he was 1 1 ci& a'mOnthafter 1 pre. Toth being questioned as former Mos. a 1wItnes9, . . ,, sTmablY against Anato VwbUreau.,chief@ of the Scharans, Los Angeles ly ky, e 29, a Computer expert V was-seized, by the and pro KGB secu. minent OPolioe On a downtown Soviet dissident who stxeet and had been under liauled away for the arrest since March first session of a 16, reportedly on a 30tal Of 14 hours of treason charge. questioning *spread over six days. Today's Tass article broadened the ,olving an @ attack against Toth, In - another incident saying that he@ inj journalist today, CBS had "received @. assignments rorre. not so W, it Bernard C. RedmontMuch from the Los Angeles and his Times as "West- - German cameraman-from American sPecial@ were igencies.. . ghed up While filming While fulfilling these a Moscow assignments,, roU ?,;-be@r, garden and Toth tried to make then questioned by the. acquaintance of Soviet, scientists @..P,Ollce., who he thought '@,-,-,@,Redmont said could possess Information -he and'camirAman of interest 1. Kurt Hoefle had been to U.S. special agencies.,, filming" for ,',',,,about an hour Toth has denied collecting when two unidentified any se. t-t@ Men -suddenly tried to cret information during rip thecamera', his three-year 1_gway, kicking Ifoefle.Moscow assignment and the U.S. em. j", '-.Uniformed and bassy said today, "We plainclothed police repeat what we WO-roke UP the, melee Said earlier - that and took the CBS Air. Toth was a @@,mevito a -Police stationjournalist engaged where they in leg! ate jo - tim ur i,iiWAwe questioned for halistic activities.11 about anhour. CaWwgre .*dte Asked why Soviet authorities are the embassy %the :oukre9t: d. @ 'clarT ' Because safely out of the countT7 and they hens afford to say anything they want to.,, [William Thomas, editor of the Los. Angeles Times, called the Tass charges llridieulous.,j Tass hinted broadly that it could prove Toth's connection with U.S.,in- telligence agencies but did not state SO flatly. "Will not those who now co , ( me out as Toth's advocates feel quite ill at ease If evidence is submit- ted irrefutably proving the connection or this so-to-Say corr .espondent with U.S. intelligence services?" Tass asked rhetorically. It mentioned specifically the CIA and "other espionage agencies, related for instance t ntagon" as en. o the Pe gaged in, llintc@sive subversive activi- ties.,,, The U.S. eanbassy spokes'man here noted that the Soviets had previously "hinted darkly that 'they had infOrmd- tion that would close the book" on journalists accused of being CIA agents, ' Three American Journalists ac. cused a year ago'iii an article in the government-controIled press of being CIA agents denied the charge and the authorities have Produced no ,proof,, o th ir all ge intellsige f e e d nee ties. Toth was detained by the KBG o@ June 11 while he was receiving an ar fleje on parapsychology @ froin viet $0 "t swcaiesuttaisktenVinaebryYt-hP'eetpol-icoel/@ wh,* also Dissident sources said .today that Petukhov was released after spending four days In KGB custody. The dissident source's said the direc- tor of the institute@wher6,petukliov work9 was summoned to th interior e Ministry and told'to take no 'action against him because he had "helped the KGB expose an arch-inteIligeuce agent from one of the imperialist countries." In other developments: Nobel Peace laureate Andrei Sak- harov and four other dissident physi- cists appealed to scientists attending an international conference near Mos- cow to take up the' cage of human rights activist Yuri Orlov, who was ar. rested last February and reportedly faces charges of anti-Soviet slander. . 0 The senior military adviser to the Soviet U. N. mission, was "brutally" beaten last Thursday by two men near his home on Manhattans upper east side, according to @ Soviet letter of complaint. The Soviet note said the 11 premeditated" attack caused "serious bodily injury" to Col. VIadImIr Cher. nyshev. A New York City police spokesman Said the Soviets nevpr re- Ported the attack and have not al- lowed them to interview Chernyshev - since the delivery of the protest to U.S. officials yesterday. note THE'WASMNGT wow R CRE11 4 Isf ANNIVERSA R ALL MORAL BRA) 40A CENTE IftECT WW pins ip DIR 518 9 h Stal t IOPEN MONDAY THRU "p p JABOUL F Hm IrE N r.CT A Tr- Approved For Release 2001103126: CIA-RDP96-00787ROO0200080015-8