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Today's Program Schedules TV-RADIO and Special Notes-TV Page THE EVENING SPORTS Also Obituaries, Stock Market Tables PAGE 13 1 BALTIMORE. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 19G5 PAGE Bl SUN 'The Pcnkovsky Papers' C. L. Sulzberger Security Police Begin To Pry Soviet Rocket Of Damocles Seen As Diplomatic Device Number 5-6 Pushkin street, be be expected to visit; 3) the device (Ninth in a Series) By Frank Gibney hind a radiator painted dark of the "dead drop," the inconspicuous hiding-place where a pack meetings, a small brown sedan with the license plate SUA 61-45 driven by a man in a black overcoat. Penkovsky wrote a letter to a prearranged address in London, green.

rounds. More than ever, he main-1 tained contacts with his friends in the Army. He exuded confidence. In mid-November, 1961, he took his wife off for a month-long vacation, Colonel Penkovsky's Paris visit was his last to the West. Although age can be left for a later pick up, without the need lor the parties to meet face-to-face.

hts superiors in Military Intel advising that no further meetings ligence later made several pro posals to send him on foreign as On October 21, just two weeks first to the quiet spa at Kislo with Mrs. Chisholm be attempted after his return from Paris, Pen signmcnts, it became clear that From that time on, Penkovsky vodsk in the Caucasus, where most of the Soviet ministries have the State Security police were Put In Match Box Messages to be sent were placed in a match box wrapped in light blue paper, bound with cellophane tape and wire, and hung on a certain hook behind the radiator. When Penkovsky had something to leave there, he was to make a black mark on Post number 35 on the Kutuzov Prospect. He would relied on the two remaining mcth watching him, for some reason rest houses, then south, to the ods of communication. He cither handed over material in the Black Sea beach resort of Sochi.

Penkovsky himself believed that the State Security's surveillance arose from the belated discovery that his father had been a White They returned to Moscow on De kovsky had his first meeting with one of his contacts. At 9 P.M. he was walking near the Balchug Hotel, smoking a cigarette, and holding in his hand a package wrapped in white paper. A man walked up to him, wearing an overcoat, unbuttoned, and also smoking a cigarette. "Mr.

houses of Westerners, to which he cember 18. was invited in the course of his In December, Penkovsky re officer in the Revolution. He cor duties, or relied on the relative anonymity of dead-drops which then put the materials in the sumed meetings with his Western contacts, but the risks involved Alex," he said in English, "I am grew ever more apparent. were, of course, the safest way to communicate. But they had their own peculiar suspenses and horrors.

In effect, from your two friends who send Same Car Appears you a nig, Dig welcome, ine On January 5, after he bad rectly believed that they did not yet suspect the real truth: that he had volunteered to do espionage for the West. Back in Moscow, he coolly continued to deliver information to his American and British contacts. 3 Standar I Methods He used three standard intel package chanced hands. Another an agent working through dead- passed some more film to Mrs Janet Anne Chisholm, wife of a Paris, Nov. 10 The Moscow parade commemorating the Bolshevik Revolution dramatized a mystery: Why has the Soviet Union manufactured an orbital nuclear missile? Such a weapon is even more frightening in Us Implications than the ICBMs, armed with devastating warheads, already arrayed throughout the U.S.S.R.

and the United States and with which either power could easily destroy any corner of the earth. An orbital nuclear missile could be sent circling around the globe ready, at the push of a button, to drop its terrible load without warning on any chosen target; Its accuracy would probably be less than that of ordinary ICBMS and it would cost far more to deploy, Surely no human being, regardless of passport, can relish the thought of such atomic swords of Damocles permanently whizzing overhead. Existence of this Soviet weapon was already known, but clearly the Kremlin wished to emphasize its readiness by displaying it Sunday before foreign military attaches. To stress the point, Radio Moscow announced that "the warheads of orbital missiles can strike at an aggressor suddenly during the first or any other circuit of the globe." Mailer For Speculation The May, 1965, issue of Ogoniok had already announced that Russia had perfected an orbital nuclear missile capable of carrying a 100 megaton warhead far exceeding the explosive force of anything in the American arsenal. This seemed to be the "global rocket" of which Premier Khrushchev boasted on March 16, 1962, and was later described by General Pokrovski as able to spin around the earth and "strike American territory" from any direction outflanking warning systems.

Pokrovski specifically suggested that it could be launched from above the South Pole. The exact military value of such a terror weapon is disputable. In 1963 United States Secretary Copyright, 1965. New of Defense McNamara claimed the United States could, if it chose, destroy any orbiting satellite. In September, 1064, President Johnson said American radar now detects objects "beyond the horizon." The United States has been experimenting with anti-satellite satellites capable of destroying enemy weapons in orbit.

Its existence certainly implies that Moscow has unilaterally decided to violate its pledge to keep nuclear weapons out of space. After the 1963 limited test ban treaty Russia and the United States drafted a resolution, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, calling on all states "to refrain from placing in orbit around the earth any objects carrying nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction." There is no evidence that Russia has yet violated this pledge by actually ortoting a nuclear satellite is in production contravenes the spirit of its manufacture after promising not to employ such arms and then take pains to advertise its existence? The mere fact that an orbital nuclear satellite is in production contravanes the spirit of the test ban treaty and Soviet claims to desire an agreement preventing atomic arms proliferation. "Global Rocket" At this point one can only speculate. Perhaps Russia wishes to apply diplomatic pressure on the United States for anti-proliferation treaty on its own terms. It might promise not to orbit its new device if, in exchange, Washington promises not to include West Germany in any NATO atomic-sharing formula.

Perhaps Russia wishes to scare the disintegrating African-Asian bloc into toeing the Kremlin line. It is even conceivable that Russia wishes to warn truculent China that it had better curb its ambitions vis-a-vis both the Soviet Union and international communism. Any of these menacing intentions may be in the collective Kremlin mind. York Time Newi Service! drop, and make two telephone calls to numbers 3-26-87 and 3-26-94, each with a set number of rings. And so it went.

Such are the complexities of a working intelligence operation. Through it all, Penkovsky con-tinned to jot down his observations and his own warning to the West. The following excerpt discusses one of the most chilling aspects of Soviet war preparation unre drops Uriels himsclt playing a crown-up came of blindman's hoard of documents and observations on Soviet military prcpara tions was on its way westward. Maintains Contacts buff. Through the spring of 1902, Pen British embassy attache, in an elaborately casual encounter, he noticed a small car, violating traffic regulations, had swung around to observe them.

"Alex," for such was his code kovsky's existence was bounded ligence methods: 1) carefully ar-l name, kept on collecting and by a collection ot these inconspic ranged "chance encounters 2) meetings at the homes of British transmitting information, without uous hiding places. Drop No, Later that month the same car appeared again at one of his I was located in the doorway of stricted chemical warfare. skimping on his normal daily or Americans he might normally Gh Steps emical arrare aien ror For It is not enough for Khrushchev to prepare for atomic and hydrogen warfare. He is also preparing for chemical warfare. A special 7th Directorate in the general staff is involved in working out methods of chemical and bacteriological warfare.

The Chiof Chemical Directorate of the Ministry of Defense is also concerned with the problems of chemical and bacteriological war fare. We also have the Voroshilov Military Academy of Chemical i Defense, several mihtary-chemi- Johnson In Curious Spot With Aluminum Leaders cal schools and scientific-research i institutes and laboratories in the fields of chemistry and bacteriology. They are all working on these military projects. Near Moscow there is a special proving ground for chemical de (front) makes the decision to use chemical weapons. The authors add that one of the most important uses for chemical missiles will be the destruction the enemy's nuclear strike capability.

Specific mention is made of the "Little John," "Honest John," "Lacrosse," "Corporal," "Redstone," and "Sergeant" units, the width and depth of their dispersed formations under tactical conditions, and their vulnerabilities to the chemical attack. Also American cruise missile and alomic artillery units. The article contains the usual precautions about the necessity to prevent damage to friendly troops, and discussed the operational situations in which chemical weapons could be used to greatest advantage. This is how it concludes: "The purpose of this article is to present the main fundamental principles of using chemical missiles. Those principles should not, under any circumstances, be considered as firmly established, because they can be defined with greater precision as practical experience is accumulated." Americans Held Lax Soviet officers generally consider Americans to be extremely lax in matters of training and discipline for defense against chemical attack.

I have heard that American soldiers even boast of throwing away their gas masks and other protective equipment, claiming they interests of the industry and its employees" had all been "forwarded." The United States Steel Corporation, the industry's bellwether, had carefully concealed what obviously was a prior decision to make the increases, until the last big company and its union had signed the contract. There is, therefore, no analogy between the two incidents of the behavior of the two Presidents. The aluminum industry found itself for the first time in many years in the middle of an expanding market. Its contract with its workers was close to the terms of the recent steel industry settlement that was made at the White fense. I know a new gas has been invented which is colorless, tasteless, and without odor.

The gas is avowed to be very effective and highly toxic. The secret of the gas is not known to me. It has been named "American." Why this name was chosen, I can only guess. Testing Centers Many places in the country have experimental centers for testing various chemical and bac teriological devices. One such base is in Kaluga.

The commanding officer of this base is Nikolay Varentsov, the brother of Marshal Varentsov. vc 5 '--V I '1 iff I PS, Near the city of Kalinin, on a small island in the Volga, there is Washington There were several varieties of misunderstanding in the great aluminum price foul-up that has created a clevage between those apparently bliss-saturated honeymooners President Johnson and the management sector of private industry. Some of the misunderstanding was deliberately created, as in the instance of the successive and differing representations of the President's attitude toward the aluminum price increases that were given to the press by official sources. Some appears to have been the consequence of a misreading of positions by the administration and the manufacturers alike. Since each group today was, indicating an awareness of the latter situation, a renegotiation of positions may still be possible, from which an adjustment could emerge.

But whether the partnership between the administration and business is to be restored depends on the workings of the President's sinuous mind. There are no authorities on that mysterious process except Johnson himself. The about-face denunciation of the aluminum price increases as "inflationary" by chairman Ackley of the Council of Economic Advisers is being likened by some to President Kennedy's attack on the steel manufacturers. But the difference is fundamental. i The Affront Of 1962 The timing and other imperious circumstances attending the 1962 announcement by that industry of higher steel prices made it an affront to the prestige and person of the President of the United States.

None of the steel executives had given Kennedy any reason to expect that his efforts to attain a contract settlement within the framework "of anticipated gains in productive efficiency" would be discredited in less than two weeks by their announcement of higher price schedules. A mild demurrer issued by the industry's chief negotiator of the settlement at the time it was made had encouraged the President to assure the American people that the contract was a demonstration of responsible collective bargaining in which "the national interest" and "the special bacteriological storage AT WORK Frank Gibney, author of forewords lo "The Penkovsky Papers," interviews Russians. place. Here they keep large con have lost them. I can hardly be cation is intended to explain the' is no mention made of waiting un- would use chemical weapons tainers with bacilli of plagues and other contagious diseases.

I latest in tactical and operational til the enemy uses chemical wea- against its opponents. The political decision has alrea The entire island is surrounded lieve this, but even if it is only partly true, it is a training deficiency which must be corrected doctrine to the highest ranking of by barbed wire and is very securely guarded. But my readers pons; tnere is no reterence to tne need for a high-level political decision for the use of such dy been made and our strategic military planners have developed ficers, i.e., major general and above.) The article wastes no time and minces no words. It opens with House. Its announced new prices, alone among those in the major industries, are still below the 1955 levels.

And the aluminum company representatives, when they met in conference with the government here Friday and Saturday, offered to absorb, on a gradual time-table, all of the 200,000 tons of the stockpile the administration is releasing to the market. Call It "Johnsonian" Instead of negotiating an adjustment of the difference between a long and short-range transfer of the tonnage, which was clearly feasible and in the interest of sustained employment, the administration abruptly broke off the talks and summoned a news conference at which the price increases were denounced, and government-administered economy was invoked by throwing the 200,000 tons'on the open market. "Johnsonian" is perhaps the best general description of the immediate events leading up to this sudden decision. After new aluminum prices were announced by some segments of the industry, the word passed to the New York Times was that the President was "sputtering mad." This was volunteered by an official who purported to speak for the White House. But when the representation was duly published, an equivalent administration authority repudiated it, and encouraged a report to the Times that the President's reaction to Alcoa's association with the price rise, which established this throughout the industry, "was so mild that it seemed calculated to create doubt whether it was a reaction at all." in the West must not be under any illusions.

This is not the only place where there are such a doctrine which permits the commander in the field to decide whether to use chemical weapons, and when and where. I recently read an article entitled "Principles of the Employ From the start to finish the article makes it clear that this decision has been made, that chemi immeuately. Such crucial flaws in an enemy's defensive armor are not overlooked by Soviet planners. TOMORROW The surveillance net tightens around Penkovsky and Wynne; the party at shal Malinovsky boasts about the Berlin wall. Political Decision Made Soviet artillery units all are re the statement that under modern conditions, highly toxic chemical agents are one of the most powerful means of destroying the enemy.

Principles Of Use Then the article describes the cal shells and missiles may be considered just ordinary weapons gularly equipped with chemical ment of Chemical Missiles" of the Top Secret military publication "Information Collection of Missile available to the military comman der, to be used routinely by him warfare shells. They are at the gun sights, and our artillery is routinely trained in their use. And characteristics of chemical wea when the situation calls for it, Units and Condensed from the forthcom ing book, The Penkovsky Papen, Copyright 1965, Doubleday Co. let there be no doubt: If hostili It is being distributed this The article specifically states, pons, and the principles of using ties should erupt, the Soviet Army month, August, 1961. (This publi them effectively in combat.

There "The commander ot the army Copyright, 1965. New York Times News Service William Vaughan em motorists driving to and from m.p.h., their passenger trains at art. Shelley Smith was inspired toj do a Maelcum collage; Albert' Sangiamo a far-out composition of; Florida to beware of 22 highway I 1- tal improvements on the house- hold model railroad layout. So a suggestion about how "you can expand the $ize of your layout without expense" at hand from speed traps "below the Mason-Dixon line, where over-eager Maelcum photographs (even as I Paris had its favorite model1 who posed for all the famous artists in the Montparnasse in the 1920's and (the late Alice Prin). Baltimore has its "Maelcum," or Mrs.

Dudley Gray, who has lately posed for at 120 m.p.h. Half that fast is more realistic in both cases, according to the N.M.R.A, "Prototypical" speeds of 40 m.p.h. for freights and 60 m.p.h. for passengers were first An Administration First! War Declared On Surliness Man Ray photographed Kiki in Pans long ago. And noger hayman nas painted suggested by David E.

Renard, of least 25 local handpainters, in While awaiting an answer to this request, Assi the mideastern regional unit of the National Model Railroad Association should be appealing. All you do is slow down your little locomotives, and your layout expands, sort of psychologically, because the trains take longer to go around it. cluding her husband, a student at Edgewood, who is a stickler for scale. An HO-gauge (Vs inch to a foot) Delaware Hudson diesel nineteen vignettes of Mrs. Gray and has mounted them under glass in a modified pin-ball machine that lights up eccentrically when the spectator pushes a but the Maryland Art Institute.

police departments are quick to pounce" including one it locates in "Waldorf, Virginia." Let us defend the honor of our great neighbor, the Old Dominion State. There is no place called Waldorf in Virginia. And surely the A.L.A. didn't mean either of two places in Virginia called Wal-drop one a railroad stop with no population, the other an exurb She is called Maelcum because that he made by hand recently won the ''best-of-show" award in Maelcum Soul is her real maiden an N.M.R.A. contest in Pitts ton.

Seldom (probably never) before has one person been pictured in name. It's of Czechoslovakian origin; so Mrs. Gray might be fairly described as a Bohemian in both burgh. How about that? But there is also a logical excuse for running scale-model trains slower than so many ways by so much talent in Baltimore. Maelcum may have the old-Baltimore and art-world The scale-speed slow-down has been tested by Charles F.

Douds, another N.M.R.A. expert in the sense of the word. She works as a barmaid in an esthetes' hangout already topped Kiki's record. R.R. Expansion News witn a population ot 50 near Petersburg.

These Couriers News usual, the N.M.R.A. insists. Most model railroaders don't run their scale models at scale speeds. They juice them so hard that their freight trains zip along at 80 on Tyson street. dyes ner mideastern region.

To clock a model train's speed, he suggests counting the number of standard hair iron-ore red, outlines her eyes in heavy black and wears As Christmas looms, so do capi 40-foot (5-inch HO) cars that pass a given point on the layout in five seconds. Then multiply the result boots and Hip haberdashery that invoke images of a Berlin cabaret during the days of the WTeimar Republic. The Fresident has ordered every federal department and agency to take giant steps toward assuring more courteous service to the public end to report back by December 15. Each bureau is to name a top executive to coordinate the War on Surliness and make the report. In the case of the Bureau of Research into Edible Algae Diets, the assignment has gone to the assistant director for public affairs of BREAD, Carswell Coony.

His first action was to send a memo to the director, Norman Ncne: "In re courtesy campaign have developed excellent slogan for interdepartmental use: equals MC squared, with the explanation that it means Efficiency is equal to square of More Courtesy. Believe it is catchy and result-producing. "Miss Slantbar, my excellent secretary, has pointed out, however, that there is no equal sign (which you will remember is one little on top of another little on her typewriter. Nor is there anyway to write MC squared, as MC2 is not the same thing, because the 2 has to be hiked up about half a line to convey the proper message. Give Us The Tools! "Chief, I know that this may seem like a small matter, but how does Mr.

Big expect us to get this courtesy program off the pad when we don't even have the tools to type out a dynamic slogan? "I am advised that typewriters properly equipped can be obtained for around $150 each and urgently request that a requisition be rushed by 6 for the m.p.h. Ten cars that pass in five seconds are moving stant Director Coony has not been idle. He is pushing ahead on other fronts. All regional BREAD heads have been instructed: "Daily and combined weekly reports will be sent to this office via TWX rating the Courtesy Coefficient of each employee. Each regional director will be held responsible for all smiles, pleasantries and similar politeness-oriented activities in his office as well as in suboffices coming under his jurisdiction.

"Each staff member is to be rated according to the number of smiles directed at the general public each day. Smiles exchanged between staffers are not to be counted and should, in fact, be discouraged. "In reporting smiles it is important that additional information as to the type of smile be included, such as whether they are smiles wtwinkle, eye, or smiles wno twinkle. Surveys The Competition "I speak for Director Nene in calling for wholehearted cooperation from all BREAD employees in helping to make ours the most courteous, politest and all-around nice-to-be-near agency in the government. "We are only a small agency, and the competition is intense.

The CIA, the IRS, the FBI and others will be trying desperately to outpolite us, but I have confidence, as does Director Nene, in our people." It is too early to judge results, but whatever they are they are expected to improve greatly as soon as the bureau gets the new typewriters for the slogan. Most of the young-Turk artists Proving that the Zip code work: Dr. John W. McCleary, 4310 Ro. land avenue, received a letter on schedule the other day from his daughter in Palo Alto, Cal.

even though she addressed it only with his name and "21210" and "U.S.A." Nowhere Again at 60 m.p.h. in town have done her picture. Joseph Sheppard, the realist, has portrayed her in drawings that resemble medical illustrations. Earl "It is a great shock to discover at what speeds you have been running trains," according to Mr. Douds.

And "When you first start running at slower speeds. Hofmann has depicted her as a sort of surrealist giant with a window in her leg, standing in a Bal your layout will seem even more Its still tne Largest Unknown than twice as big. You may even; City in America. timore street and towering over feel it is tedious. But give it a fair Mrs.

Paul K. Goode mentioned try. After a few nights of prototy-; to a clerk in Columbus, Ohio pical speeds, you won't want to go (population not long ago the rowhouses. Charles Newton has painted Maelcum to emphasize a beauty-mark she wears on one cheek. back to a smaller layout.

It puts Noel Newby has interpreted her as a lite-size Pop-art cut-out doll the model into model railroading." In Defense Of Va. that she was from Baltimore, and the clerk said: "Baltimore?" "Yes. Baltimore, Maryland," Mrs. Goode said. "What Hitf ritw ie iVt noirV complete with six changes of cos tume (including one made of mir through." The Automobile Legal Associa '7 hope you realize it's only this hat that makes me look stupid enough to buy a hat like this." ror-glass).

John Bannon has done her in a style resembling Camp EBeU-McLurt Syndicate feitm tion of Boston has warned north-1 the clerk asked, J.G. 1.

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