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Playing with Fire

IN APRIL 1968 EDMUND FREUNDLICH, A SOLItary, 58-year-old office worker from Vienna, Austria, arrived in the United States to begin his new career as a "sleeper agent" for the Soviet Union's military intelligence agency, the "GRU." His principal task was simply to lie low in New York City and wait for a phone call from a Soviet informant planted in the U.S. defense establishment. The call-if it ever camewould alert Freundlich that the United States was on the brink of attacking the Soviet Union. Once "activated," he was to climb a large rock in Central Park and transmit a radio signal to the Soviet mission at the United Nations. Freundlich's activities are recounted in the recent book Cassidy's Run (Random House), intelligence writer David Wise's account of a previously secret U.S. nerve gas deception operation that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. Wise describes Freundlich as the GRU's "oneman early-warning system" that World War III was about to begin. The FBI first learned about Freundlich in 1971 through a double agent, Joe Cassidy, a U.S. Army sergeant based at the Edgewood Arsenal military base near Baltimore. Cassidy, who had been working as an agent in a joint FBI-Army Intelligence counterespionage case since 1959, periodically received instructions from his Russian handlers on microdots hidden inside hollow rocks placed at various drop sites around the United States. Cassidy was instructed by his Soviet handlers to call Freundlich-code-named "Ixora" by the FBI-if he learned that the United States was preparing for war. The FBI, anxious to learn how Edmund Freundlich, the Soviet's one-man early warning system.