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WASHINGTON, MARCH 4 (AP) -REP. JOHN N. ASHBROOK, R -OHIO, URGED
TODAY A PROMPT CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION OF SENSATIONAL CHARGES
OF LAX SECUR(ITY IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT AND CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
AGENCY. THE CHARGES HAVE BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO A POLISH DEFECTOR
WHO WAS HIGH IN -THE RANKS OF THE SOVIET. SECRET POLICE.
ASHDROOK, A ME:: -ER THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON UN -A:1:nicAN
ACTIVITIES, SAID HE KGFES THAT COMMITTEE WILL CALL'THE DEFECTOR,
/WEAL GOLENIEXI, TO TESTIFY AT CLOSED HEARINGS TO "GET ACTION
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THE OHIO REPUBLICAN SAID HE HAS HEARD THAT THE STATE DEPARTMENT
ITSELF HAS SET UP A SPECIAL HUSH-HUSH TASK FORCE TO REASSESS THE
SECURITY FILES OF 175 OFFICERS, LOTH IN WASHINGTON AND IN THE
FOREIGN SERVICE.
H SAID THE SENATE INTERNAL SECURITY COMMITTEE ALSO HAS BEEN
PROBING THE STATE DEPARTMENT SECURITY SITUATION AND IS DOING A
GOOD JOB.'
"THEY HAVE SHOWN A GREAT LACK OF SOUND SECURITY PRACTICES,
HE SAID.
REVELATIONS OF GOLENIEUSKI HAVE LEEN DESCRIBED IN ARTICLES IN
THE WASHINGTON. STAR AND THE NEW YORK JOURNAL AMERICAN.
AMONG OTHER THINGS HE WAS QUOTED AS TELLING AMERICAN SECURITY
AGENTS THAT THE RUSSIAN KGB APPARATUS HAS INFILTRATED EVERY U.S.
AGENCY EXCEPT THE FBI, THAT THE CIA HAD SOMEHOW SIPHONED $1.2
MILLION OF ITS OWN FUNDS INTO COMMUNIST HANDS IN VIENNA, THAT HE HAS
NAMED SEVERAL HUNDRED U.S. EMPLOYES AROUND THE WORLD AS SECURITY
RISKS, AND THAT STALINISTS IN THE CIA HAVE BLOCKED HIS EFFORTS TO
EXPOSE THE SITUATION,
GOLENIEWSKI, WHO DEFECTED IN 1961, HAS BECOME AN AMERICAN CITIZEN
UNDER SPECIAL LEGISLATION.
THE NEWSPAPER REPORTS SAID HIS INFORMATION CLEANED UP A SERIOUS
BREACH OF SECURITY IN WARSAW, IN WHICH AMERICAN EMBASSY OFFICIALS
AND MARINE GUARDS WERE COMPROMISED BY FEMALE SEDUCERS WORKING
FOR THE COMMUNISTS,
THE COLENIEWSKI INFORMATION PLAYED A HAND IN THE TRIAL AND
CONVICTION OF IRVIN A. SCARBECK, ONETIME SECOND OFFICER OF THE U.S.
EMBASSY IN WARSAW, WHO NOW IS SERVING 30 YEARS FOR PASSING
CLASSIFIED INFORMATION TO THE REDS. HE WAS BLACKMAILED WEEN CAUGHT
WITH A POLISH GIRL BY COMMUNIST AGENTS.
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SO FAR AS COULD BE D TERMIN D GOLEN EWSKI HAS OT BEEN
QUESTIONED By ANY CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE. ASHBROOK SAID HE
FAVORS SUCH A MOVE IMEDIATELY.
REP. MICHAEL J. FEIGHAN, D..OHIO, WAS REPORTED BY SHE JOURNAL
AMERICAN TO HAVE INTERVIEWED COrENIEWSKI IN NEW YORK IN CONNECT ON
WITH' HIS APPLICATIONTO DECOIE AN AMERICAN CITIZEN. FE GHAN IS
CHAIRMAN OF AN IMMIGRATION SUBCOMMITTEE.
FEIGHAN REFUSED TO TALK ABOUT THE SIT ATIOD TODAY.
HAVE MADE UP MY MIND TO SAY NOTHING AT ALL ABOUT - HE SAID.
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