'Spy Kitchen’ Run By U.S., Says Moscow

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30764, 31 May 1965, Page 6

' Spy Kitchen’ Run By U.S., Says Moscow

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright* MOSCOW, May 30. Russia has accused two United States diplomats of running a “spy kitchen” and has accused Canadian secret police complicity in the death of a Soviet scientist in Canada, as the result of a road accident.

The charges against the Americans could foreshadow their expulsion. The United States Embassy called the charge a “complete fabrication.” The accusations, made in Russian publications, were considered retaliation’for an American magazine article alleging Russian diplomatic espionage activity in the United States, and for Canada’s recent expulsion of two Russian diplomats ■ for “impermissible activities.” The American diplomats were identified as Malcolm Toon, the embassy political officer, and Allan Logan, his deputy, a second secretary of the embassy.

Mr Toon is going home, anyway. at the end of his regular tour of duty next month. Observers believe Mr Logan, who has another year to serve here, might be declared personna non grata and forced to leave.

Secret Operations The article, which appeared in Izvestia's week-end supplement said: “In the last half year, the United States Embassy in Moscow has been involved in so-called secret operations. American diplomats from the rank of attache to counsellor are engaged in these secret operations. “Several of these diplomats engage in direct espionage, while others manage their spy kitchen through subordinates and don’t dirty their own hands. They are only the leaders,” it said. In a related attack, another newspaper alleged 'that the Russian scientist V. P. Cheremisinov was killed in Canada under circumstances involving “gross arbitrary actions by the secret police bordering on a crime. “It has been learned that the accident took place as a result of a puncture in the front wheel tyre," it said, “and it has been established that the puncture was no accident but was clearly the result of a malicious act. “Suspicious” “The fact that Royal Canadian Mounted Police agents immediately appeared on the scene also looks suspicious. “The available information indicates that secret police agents were implicated in this road accident,” the newspaper said. It charged that Canadian authorities searched the apartments of Russian citizens in Canada, installed listening devices at the Russian embassy in Ottawa, and tried to recruit Russian citizens as spies. In Ottawa, the External Affairs Department called the charges “completely unfounded.”