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present whereabouts is not known. We previously disseminated all pertinent data concerning Sarant to CIA, and the only additional fact we can add is that there is information concerning him in the information.
Ricardo M. L. Setaro
Setaro, an Argentinian, entered the U. S. in 1942, to study journalism. He had previously operated a news agency in Buenos Aires, which was clandestinely distributing Tass News Agency dispatches. On the basis of the information we know that he was an MGB agent in 1944, while acting as Assistant Editor in the Latin American Division of the Columbia Broadcasting System. After leaving CBS hew was employed for a short period by Artkino Pictures, Inc., a distributing agent for Soviet films. In 1947 he returned to Argentina where he was last reported to be the Editor of a Communist newspaper. We have disseminated information concerning Setaro omitting, of course, the information.
Vasaili T. Soukhomline
Soukhomline, Russian born, spent the war years in New York City where he was generally known as being pro-Soviet and as possibly a Soviet agent. He has been identified with fair certainty as an MGB agent designated under the cover name of Mare, according to . It is also to be noted that Dr. Klaus Fuchs was told at one time that he could contact Soukhomline in Paris order to make arrangements to talk to someone with a technical knowledge concerning atomic energy. Soukhomline had left the U. S. in 1945 and had gone to France. He was expelled from that country in 1951 for his Communist activities. He is reportedly now in Prague where he edits the French bulletin of Telepress. CIA has conducted some investigation of Soukhomline at our request, but we have not, of course, furnished them the data.
Soviet Officials:
There has not been included herein write-ups on Soviet officials, it being felt that if we get into this field of discussion with CIA they will want to know what agents these Soviet
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