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THE PENKOVSKIY PAPERS
A few months ago, Dcubleday aiid Company published one of the
most important books of our time - a 411 page volume called THE
PENKOVSKIY PAPERS. The best way to describe this remarkable
book is as a gold mine of corroboration of what informed anti-
Communists have been trying to tell apathetic Americans for the
past generation.
The author of this book was Colonel OlegPenkovskiy, the highest-ranking
official ever to defect from Communism and tell us what
really goes on at the upper echelons of the Soviet bureaucracy. He
was one of the inner clique of Soviet rulers, privy to all Russian
state secrets, a war hero, decorated, by the Soviet government 13
times, senior officer in Soviet military intelligence, graduate of the
Soviet staff college and the missile academy, and he even had a
wife with the right connections. He enjoyed all the material benefits
that the Communist system reserves for the elite at the very top
of the heap.
At the peak of his career, Penkovskiy turned his back on Com-munism.
He did not steal a plane and fly it to the West, give himself
up and ask for asylum. He didn't ask for a pass to some international
conference so he would be safe in a Western country before he con-summated
his defection. He chose instead to remain inside the Soviet
Union, inside the councils of the high and mighty, and there work as a
double agent in order to feed current information to the West about
Soviet tactics, strategy and objectives. Thus, for a year and a half,
he lived a double lifeof drama, of daring, and of deception that makes
fictional spy stories seem pallid by comparison. During 1961-62,
Penkovskiy turned literally hundredsof secret Soviet state papers and
documents over to the West, to be studied by authorities in the gov-ernments
of England and America. These papers revealed every-thing
of importance that was being planned and projected inside the
Kremlin during the period.
Finally, Penkovskiy's luck ran out. The Soviet intelligence appa-ratus,
which he had helped tomake so efficient, closed in and led him
down the inevitable road to a Soviet-style trial and execution. Close
observers of the trial think it probable that Penkovskiy made a bar-gain
with the Soviet bosses that he would cooperate fully in the trial
and confess all - in return for safety for his wife and children who
knew nothing of his double life.
Why did Penkovskiy, at the apex of a successful career, with
nothing to gain and everything to lose, make the lonely decision to
turn his back on his work of a lifetime, and give his life, his talents
and his know-how, to warn the West of the evil and of the threat of
Soviet Communism? No self-serving explanation will fit. It wasn't
money, or power, or women, or revenge, or any of the reasons that
usually motivate men to turn their backs on their associates. For
men who do not believe in God, Penkovskiy will forever remain an
enigma. But for those who know that God is in His Heaven, the only
explanation that fits is that - even in that moral and religious desert
we call the Kremlin, conscience can sprout and bloom until it trans-forms
a man into a hero. Often Penkovskiy wondered how, having
been raised an atheist, he could have found faith in God; and often he
found comfort in "visiting in s p i r i t " a "pretty little church" he had
seen. Penkovskiy came to believe that the nuclear war the Kremlin
is planning against the West would also kill many millions of his
own Russian people - and he gave his life to save them.
The Soviet documents that Penkovskiy turned over to Western
authorities are all classified and not available to the American
public. Why is this? As the great American strategist, Dr. Stefan
Possony of the Hoover Institute has pointed out, "the world knows
that the U.S. Government received this information from Penkovskiy.
Consequently, the source need no longer be protected. ...Non-dis-closure
serves Soviet, not American interests." But if the American
people were permitted to know Moscow's secret nuclear war doctrine,
it would destroy the liberal-created image of Kremlin leaders in
"gray flannel suits." The book that we call THE PENKOVKSIY
PAPERS is really a personal diary which Penkovskiy himself wrote
for the express purpose of informing the Western public. These were
translated by Peter Deriabian, a high-ranking Soviet official who de-fected
some years ago and now lives in the United States, and who has
several times testified before Congressional committees.
Penkovskiy makes it clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that the
Soviet strategy to conquor the world, the strategy developed by
Khrushchev and continued by his successors, is the strategy of a
surprise strike from space to eliminate the United States in a massive
knockout blow. (ICBMs are just as much "space weapons" as are
orbital missiles.) Here are Penkovskiy's own words: "A future war
will begin with a sudden nuclear strike against the enemy. There
will be no declaration of war. Quite to the contrary, an effort will
be made to avoid a declaration of war. When circumstances are
favorable for delivering the first nuclear strike, the Soviet Union
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Police Get
Their Boys
On Wednesday, July 20, at
about 8:30 p.m., PtI. Henry Hin-ck
of the Lynbrook Police Dept.
on motor patrol duty observed a
Chevrolet Sedan parked at the
curb in front of Rupp Chevrolet
new car storage lot at Merrick
Rd. and Tollgate Ct. with a male
occupant sitting behind the wheel.
Ptl. Hinck drove past the car and
parked about 300 ft. away and ob-served
the occupant, later iden-tified
as Hector Casanova, 24,
of the Bronx, emerge from the
car, lift the trunk hood and motor
hood and act as if he was having
motor trouble. He then walked
into the new car lot and returned
with a tire and wheel and placed
them in the trunk of his car. He
went back into the lot and was
returning with another tir& and
wheel, but dropped them and ran
to his car, closed the trunk and
motor hoods, got into the car and
prepared to drive off.
Ptl. Hinck realized that Cas-anova
must have observed that he
was being watched, and radioed
for assistance and apprehended
the suspect and placed him under
a r r e s t . Ptl. Hinck was assisted
at the scene by Lt. Karg, Sgt.
Kemmann and Ptl. Buckman.
Casanova was brought to Lyn-brook
Police Headquarters and
turned over to Det. See and Hayes
of the 5th Sqd. NCPD for further
investigation.
On Thursday, July 21, at about
10 p.m., Sgt. Richard Kemmann,
on plainclothes duty in an un-marked
car parked in Rupp Chev-rolet
car lot at Scranton and Ro-gers
Ave., observed a Chevrolet
sedan stop on Scranton. Two men,
later identified as William Pat-rowicy,
18, of Valley Stream, and
Albert Borghese, 18, of Elmont,
left the vehicle carrying a bumper
jack and lug wrench and proceed-ed
into the car lot. The car was
driven away by another person,
later identified as Michael Gio-vanniello,
17, also of Elmont.
Sgt. Kemmann observed Pat-rowicy
and Borghese jack up a
new station wagon and remove
three tires and wheels and then
remove a tire and wheel from
another wagon. They then rolled
the four tires and wheels to
Rogers Ave.
Sgt. Kemmann radioed for
assistance and apprehended Pat-rowicy
and Borghese and placed
them under arrest. At this time,
the car that had left the scene
returned with the trunk cover up,
and Sgt. Kemmann place Gio-vanniello
under arrest.
Sgt. Kemmann was assisted at
the scene by Ptl. G. Raudies and
E. Okula and the three prisoners
were brought to Police Headquar-t
e r s and charged with grand lar-ceny.
All three admitted they
were going to put the four tires
and wheels in the car. They were
turned over to Det. Acquasanta
and Lisa of the 5th Sqd. NCPD
for further investigation.
A Premature Death
Last week Assemblyman Ell
Wager announced that the Nassau
County Department of Public Wo-rks
had withdrawn its proposal to
widen East Rockaway Road. Wa-g
e r ' s statement was carried in
local weekly and daily newspa-pers,
but now it appears that Mr.
Wager was merely makingpoliti-cal
hay. The fact is that the pro-posed
widening of the road has
not been shelved but has merely
been put off for further study -
probably until after election. (The
Daily News reported a 1-year
delay.) The agitation caused over
this proposal has done Mr. Nick-erson's
image and popularity no
good.
This newspaper has condem-ned
the proposal and fought a-gainst
it as have our representa-tives,
Senator Norman F. Lent
and Assemblyman Robert Blake-man,
who last week sent a joint
letter to County Executive Nick-erson
calling upon him to kill
the plan.
Could all this publicity about
the proposal being "shelved" be
a smoke screen to lull the affected
people into a false sense of se-curity?
The ER Civic Association
which is leading the fight against
the widening reports that people
are not signing petitions because
they feel it is not necessary since
the plan is dead.
Town of Hempstead Supervi-sor
Francis T. Purcell advised
Mayor Krull of East Rockaway
that he spoke with County Execu-tive
Nickerson and the plan is
merely being re-examined, IT
HAS NOT BEEN KILLED.
At Monday night's East Rock-away
Village Board Meeting, ER
Civic Association President Hal
U. Fisher read letters from Nor-man
Lent and Robert Blakeman
into the record, both of which
pledged support for the fight being
waged against the "Nickerson
Expressway"; and Irving Singer
and Victor Kitay of the Joint
Committee formed by the Assoc-iation
called upon the Village Bo-ard
for support in continuing to
advise the residents of the status
of this proposal.
Village Trustee Edward O.
Lerner pledged that the village
will fight in every way possible
if and when this proposal is
brought before the Board of Su-pervisors
for a Public Hearing.
FLAG FOR GRIST MILL: The East Rockaway VFW has presented a
13 star flag to the Old Grist Mill, which will be displayed whenever
the museum is open. Pictured above, W. Wesley Hill, Director of
the Grist Mill Historical Society hangs out the flag as Lyman
Davison, President of the Society, and Bertram F. Rowland, Past
Commander of the VFW Post, look on.