Soviet Clerk's
Spy Attempts
Prove Failures
By MARTHA COLE
WASHINGTON W-A knock at
the door on a foggy night. . .vodka
martinis . . . dinner (or (our with
a dime tip for the waitress.
These were details that came
out Saturday in the story of the
stocky young clerk at the Soviet
Embassy in Washington who went
out searching for American mili
tary information.
Three men an Army medical
librarian, a historian for t h e
Armed Forces Medical Museum
and an Air Force statistician who
was then under suspension have
aaid the clerk. Vladimir P. Mik
heev, 28, came to them and they
turnra mm down.
Their testimony behind closed
doors to. the staff ol the House
Committee on I'n-American Activi
ties this week was made public
Saturday.
Stocky, with sallow complexion
ana imnning straight black hair,
a mole on the left side of his face.
a thick foreign accent this was
the description the men gave of
young Mikheev.
Richard S. Cutter, 45, of nearby
Arlington, Va , said "1 might say
he was a perfect gentleman at ail
times and very polite. The only
impolite thing he did was he didn t
take his hat off when he first came
in the house."
"Crude, Boorish"
But Robert W. Davis, Washing
ton, called Mikheev "crude and
boorish in his social habits he
stood there with his hat on."
"Extremely nonenmmunicative,"
Sidney Halkin, Washington, called
him.
It was 8 p.m. on a foggy night
last January, Davis said Mikheev
came to his door while "as 1 was
a good husband, I was washing
dishes."
It was Davis, a historian fur
the medical museum of the armed
furies institute of patholoqy, and
his wife whom Mikheev took to
cli:.i:cr in a Washington restaurant.
Mikheev's w ife was along, too.
"We had a round of vodka mar
tinis." Davis said. "Then he 'Mik
heev I suggested ordering dinner.
He also suggested Let's have an
other round.' He began to feci very
good."
"Beer for Everybody"
Davis said they had wine with
dinner and coffee and then "beer
for everybody." The tab was about
$16, Davis said, and Mikheev gave
tkje waitress a crisp 20-dollar bill,
o the change came back, and
believe it or not, he left a ten-cent
tip for the waitress."
Davis said he slipped away and
gave the waitress a dollar
Of Mikheev, Davis said, "He had
a very bland, kowtowing manner,
except when somebody asked him
a question he didn't like. Then he
became very hard suddenly. His
eyes were no longer smiling. He
became a wild animal ... he said
he was just a clerk at the Russian
Embassy ... he wanted to em
phasize the fact that 'You can tell
me all right. 1 am small fry. There
is no danger.'"
Davis said Mikheev told him he
was working on a paper about
American military history and
wanted to start with the Revolu
tionary War "and go up to now
and show how America each time
fights a bigger war than She fights
the last time."
Davis said Mikheev wanted him
to draw up a bibliography of writ
ings of American military history.
It never was done.
Tickets for Concert i
Mikheev called some more, !
Davis said, wanting a "boys' night !
out" on Valentine Day and once j
with tickets for a concert by a j
Russian cellist. Davis said he '
couldn't make either.
Mikheev had been to see Richard
S (.'utter. 45. a native of Omaha,
Neb. firt, on Dec. 27 of last:
year. Cutter, a medical librarian, ;
said Mikheev asked lor military
history and he gave him Davis'
name.
That was before he knew who
Mikheev was
How did Mikheev find Cutter ati
his home in Arlington" "He said
he got the name in big, thick
book at the public library.'' Cutter
said
Cutter speculated that it was the)
city directory where he is listed!
as a librarian with the Defense
Department.
Mikheev told both Davis and
Cutter who he was.
Ad in Paper
Later on Feb 14. 195. Mikheev
called up Hatkin. who had put an
ad in a Washington paper that day
describing himself as an economist
seeking work and listing his tele
phone number
Halkin was suspended 'rom his
Air Force job It months ago, he
teslilied on "untrustwnrthinoss and
iinrealiahility" charges But Satur
day Secretary of Air Quarlrs an
nounced that Hatkin was being re
stored to duty in a non-sensitive
position
Mikheev went to Hatkin's home,
but. Hatkins said, wouldn't tell Hal
kin his name or where he worked,
or where he lived.
He wanted three things from
Hatkin growth of the American
aircraft industry, major companies
and industrial capacity in the in
dustry and aircraft production,
Hatkin said
On the first visit, Mikheev gave
Hatkin an advance fee of $25 But
w hen he returned to llatkin's house
in about a week, Hatkin said he
gave ihe moneybackL declining to
do the work.
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