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Ghosts in the Dark
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CIA-RDP65-00756R000600230012-8
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July 10, 1998
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Approved For Release 2000/08/23 : CIA-RDP65-00756R000600230012-8 limed Todumegur BEST COPY AVAILABLE (ex-nes OA 1 gAD op6114mt.s Approved For Release 2000/08/23 : CIA-RDP65-00756R000600230012-8 (p 50/I Pr '41,0144, e elease 200 108/23: CIA-RDP65-00756R000600230012-8 'TOURS -of the Committee of State Security, Oilmen Ministers USSR, have gives the press information on materiel obtained from the investigation. Today we ?coignes the Publication of details which 'were brought to light derl'g.the investigation of the Amorioan spy ease. 011F * thee We first got to know/through what in legal terminology is called material widens*. There was quite a let of it. The bosses - i.e. the Merit= intaMesoss service - had not spared any means in assembling the baggage for liner and the other spies for the trip to Latvia. Sverything was careft.14 pecked in bags and provision had been made for any eventualities.. in the event their belongings bad tot* dropped Zion the plans, there was no need to mown the articles mould -not be damaged by hitting the ground, as the begs were lined with foam robber, sort as cotton. If the trip had to be made by sea the water would notAamago the equipment; either. Her, is the radio set. "lhade in U5I."1.Ie it powerfal les, suillsiontir positeU1 talisman, istossestton to the laPri43611 intolligooss contoro WI& Is by so mow Xoestad woes the seem, ea ow natio people sight Wien? MIELF0 parts sad plastic disks with a Magni" *Lob toss14 osisbis ma ate 2000108/23 CIA-RDP65-00756R000600230012-8 ? Approved For Release 2000/08/23 : CIARDP65-00756R000600230012-8 The latter bed weapons -been used, inslading the handy "Walther" and prouning, the sartridges, end the chirp ?or whom were the,. bullets and Mixes intended ? They night bring death to Any peeeefnl Soviet *Mae* enauuntering cue of these an who, like e.ifilost in:. the, art, was *toiling amass the borders. of oda onelltd7.% They .!Itiekt bring death to iss, readeroar to as, sr to eur sof end Almighteri, brothers end sisters; husband5 sad mivesi. These A - - our. oountry Lathe DansSt death. thWq panirtikpsepare for the horrors and destrueties of *sr. ? They .all had,* sum boss, the allikriain intelligence. The node' teats esti theta importance varied, but thy, eareed a single its, dictated 4r the interests of those for whoa IMP is the most profitable business. Ilore.than anithing aspthey longed fee a *hot me, .whish would redone to ruins oar allies, but:111.V &4t h. of the poetess* FtreaSer, plans, sir Aktio.les ettaa,b! **41 wed. Fiz!,r-Relgase 2090/98/23 : CIA-RDP65-00756R000600230012-8 intelligence register. Nos they are not the only ones. *ma terliers agents at. the American intelligence service - Harbert, itiskages ?and. Soria, had appeared in Latvia. Thass wiper* ware tram the same net ; Andy ars the leading figule in it smiths others were hip students. A The moment had wee when Andy. hiaselt. a figure of the filet magnitude among the Anemic** spies who had berm trained ter operatics. in the Soviet Unions lett on a trip to loturia his former homeland. His hamolsnd I No, thill*tfallp braa(61160Ul4ered 1111111 f t no joy at returnths. At tbs thought of the Anal goal of him trip, his eyes share with 11112 evil light and the two veitinaI' wrins in his forehead became sore deep,/ marirsd1 kis had not been here ?for a long time, aerie than ten years. During all this tisk) he had learned ear Ime things to hate his, native land, to hate it as it raj; now - `Boviet'l4rtvls t The feeling of 'Airtestratial which tilled kis bead having dined with John* American lat4424;00, agent, In tbl!' Munich ?Golueuxes kid disappeared long sigis proved' F6e eb6a4e..20 8/23 CIA-RDP6S-O ? - - ? - 0012 Approved For Release 2000/08/21 CIA-ROPt65-0076R000600236012-8 intelliwnee'sgents;. in the syr sehoell'at timptea.and, West Oersearb and later in the **tee school' near WilliblAgteno and other. plums*. Nem roalm?sid Dela as to see Alai berme his departure true Munich to 'sag goodbye and to wish hia a good trip. Dale, 14114, ficist... and saw more Acerieem *efts -with whom And;r had maintained friend] elation., remained there, in Munich . They were we311 off. The White Roam we Liberal with dellere: :or &Liars Man power. acetate, and dawn in a tare= and On Orders to the Wow a new stage in hie tIndy. el life was MLA sit as .they ? Ile would have to forget hie cultomary WM of *LW/ which had been given to him by the Amerisan boom. He woad have to remmeber everything he had made others learn for several years., in pre- paring thou tor spy operotions in Latvia.. ' First of all, it wad be 0000411111117 to arnealifie is w aaele "44114* PlUarich- Pimber, , A isorker_ 141th 24.je Ain't "4llrlo,ala)gotOarg*?? ' Over ant over ban. new to hiessif., Andy bad invented e 'de 4151r klifelt and 4427,tOriciatod? counterfeit dooto. inca,there were' "at week !pats in the dements* futtiete..ralid.bej vegr rijA,Santi 411.44 "amuses, but astbist ,esel14 be dans .404.1 Approved For Release 2000/08/23 : CIA-RDP65-00756R000600230012-8 The American bosses spired nothing in sending his to Latviej 450,000 rubles is a lot of away. But Andy was not naive and las not convinced, as were his boons, that sossii would be all-power:a in Soviet lattwia., Only one d bean dispatohed 4, not had moaned the past and resentsent,f14ed his ther,Wid 1110 his ;SUMP skav this Bs had not insgined his fatally role like this, *en be had linked his fits with American intelligenoe. 119 had hoped *to play the first sialts.s ;Ins; all the tine while A4V1p 1.1* working as an instrooter in the sw school, he portant rola. bad been the right hind etAhe director. Andy, and nous others had hese the top expert on Latvian conditions. ? Be taught the nest important subleets he taught his students bar to sallsot it Jon an the forces. and instructed then on thersystaa ef state Howl organs, he gave a complete lesture course on So tat laws and other important matter.. not is the way it had hem at school. However, An also felt that he was the only one who /sad direct the organisattcs of the spy network in Latvia. This. bad to be an undertaking whioh ha alone would direst, and for this the AsksriSsa bosses =old not stint on dollen and rubles. However, to, direct did not _to portiolaste personally in the risky advent/1r! on .that...ettwir Ods o the convinced thatit unrencestaa.?, ,risk the .?, valnable worker as hiaselt, , And hey . has Approved For Release 2000/08/23 : CIA-RDP65-00756R000600230012-8 three spies - Herbert, Riekstin, and Boris - were being trained at Komptan, it was necessary to prepare them. for dispatch to Latvia and to work oat their mission. Anitribmwgbt it stood to reason that on4 be and no oneelse'oculd do this with. the highest degree of moms. However, at this Point Liii a colonel of the American intelligence, appeared on the horison and took matter, into his own hands. Approved For Release 2000/08/23 : CIA-RDP65-00756R000600230012-8 Who Was Kull By nationality Kull was a Baltic Germane He once mentioned that he had gone to school in Riga. Howeve4 he had served the American Intelligence Service long and devotedly and hi4 completely ? eselwilated the A11111441132 say of life, * fact which he tried to sinin hiar,l.tts wiAgs the *nett living rr former enjoyed more confidence. ,The bitterness *JAI And,' felt in :viatica to tall had deep roots. This arrogant, Americanised offspring of MAU Germans occupied the chair which fats seemed to have reserved for Andy. Besides, Kull did not conceal his haughty attitude towards Latvians-in general. He frankly stated that it was wrong to recruit spies among the Latvians, and that it was =eh sore expedient to select then from Baltic Germans, who also ware fluent in the Latvian language. ' Kull also said that in the future aseAbould recruit spies among the Catholics; in hie opinion, it would be mach easier. for them to find help and support among the Catholic clergy in Latvia. Kull'had already succeeded in reortiting a certain yowls priest as a spy, who was suitat:le for this role in every respect. Only at the very end he did not peas the test. Andy was notable for his excessive vanity; he was a careerist to the core and did not tolerate any rivals around him. Neturalky, he hated Hall. The feet that And:, could not openly express his hostility towards Hulls who 'after all was his boss, sad* his hatred even more mute, What could Hull's ? this nrsats-limericanw subordinates, ths Latvians, expeot.fron Way iambi/treated even the Gerona the 'say a landowner mould treat hie Serfs. Of course, he oeneenled his tree nationality. Im.bia,relations Approved For Release 2000/08/23 : QIA-RDP65-00756R000600230012-8 Approved For Release 2000/08/23: CIA-RDP65-00756R000600230012-8 with the "natives" Kull showed a perfect combination of Baltic Germeh arrogance and shameless Tanks, cynicism; he not only was .,. equal to his bosees, tut tried:to surpass them4:: Hven by WI For example, &ring ems of his plessure'ridee, orders to stop the oar at a suburban restaurant and rudely called out to the restaurant keeper to bring him, the Laerican, a fried chicken to his oar. Tie German innkeeper, bowing humbly., brought the chicken to the ear in a mliate. Hosessr, Nall took COO look at the fried chicken and, shaving it in the innkeeper's face, exclaimed: *It's overdone" They brought him another one. Again Eull did not like its it vas not fried sactigh. And as4 the third or fourth one finally was according to his taste. The incident with the fried chicken was,: of couree, only' a email matter - it was only cme cut of many, batkady could not forget it. He could not help asking hinselfs how would Nall behave, for example, in an Ameminan-occuolAdietvia, in relation to the Latvians, when wren in West Germany be treated persons ? belonging to his own nationality in such a manner. Lull was incredibly stingy. The Americans paid hia? a colonel in the intelligens:: service, quite a large amount of dollars and it general did not spare funds for maintaining their spy school. Ikammir, Lull did not miss any chance at snatching something extra for himself. He often made his students 'Aga documents for fictiiideus. expenses. That is the kind of man lull was. Approved For Release 2000/08/23 : CIA-RDP65-00756:,,,R000,6,0,0,2?3,0,0,12-8 Approved For Release 2000/08/23 : CIA-RDP65-00756R000600230012-8 A1though Kull himself insisted that the spies, Herbert, Riakatin, and Boris, had arrived safely in Latvia the truth is that nothing sensible had resulted frisk this OSIrations To get into Utvia that was .only the begirming. died Later Andy ound out ? wa$ oonvineed ,that it tb. pzepsr*ttusm' end the torther direction of the acrtivities t Vte4spiea,fran t41.0 WeSt German center had been entrasted to him, everything would have been different. Now a lot of time had been lost, and the results wire nil. Andy knewijinglAsel, about Riekstin, Herbert, and the others. They were shady advemtarersolihe hi mself. breenly-esseptian was Lenis? the youngest one of all. Although the latter Walesa, living experience, huh he was morally chead above all the others with whom Andy had come in contacts Who ke Ant' Andy, of course, considered himself above all the others better trained than anyone else. As Tar as the training wee concerned, he? was right. Tha experienoe gained in the instructors' company in the army of bourgeois Latvia, in the MGO's training . and in eourees? in the relic" forcedthe Legion., had been amplified by the latest technological "knowledge" in the field of spy work, which he had oarefullustudied together with the othertreinies. An could not coomplein.of the Americans* they had "valuated him according to his merits, by sending him into Latvia. The assignment VIM actually .very important and responsible, and 'et ths sem tine estresely diffioult. a tharaughly tal4A0 apt of high caliber :woad be able -to ftriy it out.. ARV a- serinoipel ? Approved For Release 2000/08/23 : CIA-RDP65-00756R000600230012-8 mission is to establish a permaneat residenoy of the imerieiul . intelligence overact in Latvia. During a period .or raeverel, ? , months in Latvta, he la(' to rootruit andiporminetlit train thoe , ? ., ?, _,,.. , ? . ,... . . ifISO ',10F44_ l'orrv'.'"."; lr1":3..!..rac -,, ....? ?... 0 .. . . .? ... ...., ,_ 'IN, lit ' 74' ' i e e 0 . the7 adi 41'7*4 I VA 44 i . . . 'Ts 4 1 4i.: .4:',.k' in the 'use' of :Ifialk3.1191111/10111% tot'tio regular ocansutioetisms. with Vat seerter of tiae in service in West Gormasys Tborefore, be not only bad trireerui individuals Who mere suited tow, spy work, bat also bad t4reparo '? and train then in the ca11eot4nn of mensesax7,infornation on the ? 4 Soviet &rand forces, on the mut of indentrisl plants, end ether ? 4 important dot* ralatArd to mittens of Worm" awl Us national SC OTUXD7 of the tioriart %ten, .Xt i11411041101117 toe instsoot thews people tOttlimgr other tosbnicabl nattors partal.ntlig, to $gr len" plootoinwriphys nearst nriting. .forging donemants, lets! -" ? r - . Aotuelly this meant going iturce0 a idols menrenp ties ow_ Pchool with them* and all of this had to be done' in the greatest, seareoy, since the work had to be doneot in West Germany or itnglandt, but directly I* Latvia, .4 ? On the basis of what Andy lawns regardiw the activities of the Americo* intaligenos agents, who had been dispatched into Latvia Feurviou.slys, ono could not be too.optinioties Wit* an the contrary? It was just tbm fact that he, Andy& meuld bare to , begin frcs. the very boglrosing, iAtish mareiod and deprensod kia more than onything, litsothor IMP =Nat dor sol,,,,,c,.??tiod, the. t so far th., AnerisS?: opy ?? bed' bean, : ? I, , him tcoodsttion littolike *444 e?f.: 4 .Aproved For Release 200 - t Approved For Release 2000/08/23 : CIA-RDP65-00756R000600230012-8 Tha mission was wortny of its agent, the only trouble was that it was terribly risky. Andy was also dissatisfied because he not rendered any particular services to the Americans It had finally become evident that for the Americans only their own aims and plans were important. They were interested the in instigating mar with/Soviet Union, and therefore they needed Information on its armed forces. To Andy the most important, . thing seemed to be the restoration of the bourgeois system in Latvia. Only the restoration of the bourgeois order would maks Andy once more the sole owner of his large paternal fax. Not that he personally :wanted to plow and sow and harvret. He Wad never taken part in that. Others had done so and would continue. to do so, while he would live off the fruits of someone else's labor; it had been that wey when, upon finishing school and military service in bourgeois Latvia, he loafed *wand Riga as a member of the police force, while his tenant was toiling in the sweet of his brow at the "Jae" farmstead in Kandavsklqa Volost'. If it were.possihle to turn beck the *eels of historY, Andy would, natarallb not be coutent with the position, of some petty 141149,- "rebus, lie:t the Aserioans be wou14 be elevated 140 Approved For Release 2000/08/23 : CIA-RDP65-00756R000600230012-8 knly was over forty. He waa born not long before the inping of World War I in the aforementioned "Urle", as the oray son of Peter Bromberg. His father died when Andy was 12 years old. The farmstead was leased to 4 uhile the A? in it? gzsthsti &fmneartieoxi and ailltary UO4;4 H. volunteered for the army upon grachating from scho4. Bromberg remained in the army after the expiration of his mtlitary serwice term,in the capacity of NCO of re-enlistees. He served in the machine-gun unit of the Riga 6th Infantry Regiment until 1937, at which time he was discharged and joined - the police force. He did not succeed in,establishing a career in the police headquarters' company of guards. In 1939 he was promoted from the position of senior police officer of the guards' company to the 12th district. All in all, it wee a boring life. There was no chance of advancement, Uhen he Will dealing only with riffraff and proatitutea. In 194romberg enrolled in the Latvian University, in the foreatry department of the agriculture faculty. His studies did not interest hi :livery much. He did not like to tax his brain in this field of study, and as a result he 444 expelled from the university after 5 years for failure to make progress. in those times it meant that the student had not passed a single examination. However, Bromberg had nevertheless had. time to join the "Fraternitas Livonicav student fraternity is it was proper for the son of a landowner. Appridath Per itakkAthftfoRtsfrPtiONT5pidtiet8i4144306trAtim 2-8 had to give up his regular work, since there. MO no place in the people's militia for the son of a big landowner. He began to work as a norm setter in a laundry. When the Germans occapiedUgas.Bromberg rejoined the police force. Be was appointed district:police insprotcwat the %ea district. This was an important district ..it included Dikernieki, and the Edkernieki pins trees... .Andy knew quite well what 'slut on in the Bilambelkiforest during the years of the occupation. During his service .in the police force of bourgeois Latvia, one of his characteristic:skills was his . perfect marksmanship. Howwwors at that tiLe he had no chance to use his skill on living people. During the occupation, this.: chance cams to him in his own police district, and he made fall use of it. Besides, this shooting at live targets tortured, unarmed people - did not involve any risk for the marksman. Thus, Bromberg spent the first halt of the war- until the , spring of 1943 -..mfighting" in the police force. The newspapers were printing forecasts that the war would be over in the mar future and were setting dot.. for parades of Hitler's az.. However, a front remains a front, and the shootinggoes on all - the time. And it is not, only the offensive army who does the: shooting, tut the defensive army as well. Bromberg did not . . particularly care to be hit by the bullet of a Soviet soldier.? But in the interests of his eareerp a young man like himself could not spend the whole -war sitting to the polio* fpreellithe. rear. Once the war would beaver.and he would.topikedulawct.. L. did you do to help beat the.BmlmiheViks ? In the spring of 194.3,4robalsoltalod.as a 0441111t46r in ' ? Approved For Release 2000/08/23 : CIA-RDP65-00756R000600230012-8 4 '!I ir army, however he managed to stay in Riga: in the rear, weere you are closer to headquarters, it is much easier to 'make a career. Besides, there was no doubt that it was much more pleasant to march through the streets of Riga in polished boot* and a well-pressed uniform than to lie in dirty trenches. In the training battalion in Riga and the mdlitary school of Bolderayal Bromberg proved to be an "eager beaver". However, at that time his bowies, the Hitleritea, were having a hard time et Stalingrad. Finally, the day came when Leonid Bromberg waa sent to the front. This was early in 19)44. Bromberg became commander of a platoon in the regiment cormanded by Krippen. Bromberg has ret7ined some very unpleasant memories of the only battle, at Velikaya, in which he took pert. That was a veriteble "devil's raldron". SovietAroops broke through 'The front. BromLorg could conNider himself lucky, when he found 1