G. Edward Griffin - The Fearful Master - PDF Archive

Department usually dashes off a stiff note of protest to the Soviet delegation asking that
the individual be sent home, but a few days later, the exposed spy is replaced by another
highly trained espionage agent from behind the iron curtain and the whole operation
continues without missing a stroke. As U.S. News and World Report summarized it:
Agents of Russia, Czechoslovakia and Poland, as employees of a world
organization, face little or no surveillance of the type Americans face in
Communist countries. They can talk to anyone. They can communicate
with Moscow by secret radio code; they can travel back and forth
between New York and their home capitals freely, carrying secret
documents with immunity. They are even free from arrest for minor
crimes. And, if one is caught red-handed with secret U.S. documents,
as was Velentin Gubitchev in the Judith Coplon case, he can count on
merely being sent home, his passage paid by the UN. 6
This diplomatic immunity makes it possible for UN Communists on our soil to go much
further than acts of espionage. In fact, there is no limit to the extent of their activities--even
to the point of kidnapping, murder and terrorism. For instance, Arkady Sobolev, who was
at the time chief of the UN Soviet delegation, sent members of his staff to forcibly
repatriate nine Soviet sailors who had sought sanctuary in America. The UN delegates
who were members of the Soviet secret police went into the homes of these seamen (in
New York and New Jersey), beat them into submission, kidnapped them and sent them
back to Russia. American law enforcement officials knew what was happening but were
powerless to do anything about it because of the diplomatic immunity of the UN
personnel. 7 These same international servants later spirited away two-year-old Tanya
Romanov, a little girl born in America--legally an American citizen--whose parents were
Soviet refugees. 8
In 1953 Dr. Marek Korowicz, a UN delegate from Communist Poland, took advantage of
his presence in New York to escape to freedom in the United States. This is much riskier
than it sounds, for, as the Chicago Tribune reported:
The possibility that Communist secret police may try to shoot down Dr.
Marek Korowicz, escaped Polish alternate representative to the UN,
who has asked asylum in the U.S., has posed another problem for New
York police, it was learned today. Their apprehension was dramatized
by the fact that the FBI is standing 24-hour guard over Dr. Korowicz,
and the disclosure that at least 18 known agents of Russia or Red
satellite nations carry guns in this area. These agents . . . go about
claiming diplomatic immunity, and police say they do not have the
authority to disarm them. 9
But let us return to the main issue which is the degree of Communist control over the
United Nations itself. While these agents are actively engaged in espionage against the
United States, they are also busy within the structure of the UN doing their part to
influence all that goes on there. They may be high-ranking administrative officials
overseeing the work of hundreds of employees, or they may be merely innocuous
statisticians, researchers, or translators. But regardless of their particular assignment, they
are part of those unseen hands that can change a word here, interpret a report there, bury
important statistics, delay progress on research projects, and in a hundred other ways
paralyze the whole organization when it comes to a clear-cut issue involving real
opposition to Communism. But, for the most part, these agents are not relegated to the