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When they landed in Miami, Carswell, Danbrunt and Taransky vanished. They declined to talk to reporters. And
for some reason, unlike the other returnees, they would not tell the American Red Cross their destination.

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* Donald M, Wilson, the deputy director of USIA, was asked by the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on
February 21, 1963, to explain what type of contact USIA had with the State Department, the CIA and other
intelligence agencies. "Very close," Wilson replied. "We have daily contact with them on a number of levels."

* The flow of information is sometimes both ways. In 1959, when the CIA wanted to get translations of Soviet
scientific and technical journals into the hands of American scientists and technicians, the Commerce
Department's Office of Technical Services agreed to serve as the channel. The procedure provided a
conventional veneer for an unusual practice.

* Two accused Soviet spies, Ivan D. Egorov, a UN personnel officer, and his wife, Aleksandra, were traded for
Makinen and the Reverend Walter Ciszek, a Jesuit priest held by the Russians for twenty-three years.

* The CIA got into a dispute with its Boston landlord early in 1963 after the government ruled that field offices of
Federal agencies could not rent in segregated buildings. The CIA, the major tenant in the Boston building, which
also housed two restaurants, insisted that the landlord insert a nondiscrimination clause into leases with all of his
tenants.

* More than 70 percent of CIA's employees are in the United States; the rest are overseas.

* All five Americans were declared persona non grata on May 13, 1963. The Russians claimed two other
American Embassy personnel were involved in the case -- Robert K. German, second secretary, and William
Horbaly, agricultural attache. They also ousted two embassy aides in October, 1962, just before the Penkovsky
case surfaced publicly. They were Commander Raymond D. Smith, of Brooklyn; assistant military attache, and
Kermit S. Midthun, of San Francisco, first secretary. Smith was arrested in Leningrad on October 2, carrying a
tiny tape recorder, a Minox camera and high-powered binoculars. The Russians said he was photographing naval
installations. The American Embassy said he was taking a walk in the park. Midthun, forty- one, was accused on
October 11 of having tried to get secret data from a Soviet official. The Russians also expelled five British
diplomats in the Penkovsky case.

* Until Cuba was expelled from the OAS in January, 1962.

* The Attorney General also took the extraordinary step of allowing NBC to film shots of Abel in Atlanta Prison,
which were shown on the same program. At the time, the Powers-Abel swap was secretly in the making; the films
may perhaps have been shown to reassure the Russians that Abel was alive and well.