THE 'MASTER SPY'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP66B00403R000200010003-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 2, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

. . WASHINGTON DAILY
Approved For Releas08110 : CIA-R DP66B00403R000200010003-
DEC 2 1964
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CENSORED testimony of the "master . It is possible do question the accuracy.
spy," Stig Wennerstroem, now has been .. of some of Wennerstroem's testimony,'
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'Security Committee. Wennerstroem, a, .detailed and supportable, and appear.,
former Swedish air force colonel, was .',valid:
convicted .in Stockholm last June and
sentenced to a life term. testimony reads like a fictional
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Since one of his principal victims was thriller. But it is not fiction. For all
the United States, the Senate :. Americans, the conclusions are simple:.:
committee obtained . a transcript of Our whole defense operation is subject"
-essential parts of his testimony. ' A o constant Soviet spying. Our own .
Wennerstroem spied' for the Soviets r people, if anything, are too easy to get.;
for 15 years, until the Swedes arrested . along with, too. lacking in wariness. We'
him in June, 1963. Part of - the time : relax our security . only at our peril.;
he was air attache at the Swedish And, lastly, we only hope our own'
embassy in Washington. intelligence forces, whatever their;
The main points, of, his ,story include number, are as skillful as.;
. . 4ennerstroem seemed to be, even if,
assertions that he - obtained secret :
information in the U. S. from both the Swedes eventually did catch up to
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military and industrial . sources with ',him-after the damage was done.
-ease and that the .Soviets maintain an `'. Note: 'Copies of the Wennerstroem'
espionage system with a minimum of ? testimony'can be obtained for. 45 cents;
150,000 persons. He also. claimed to- from-the Superintendent.of Documents,
''know that the ' U. S.' intelligence '.force U. S. ? Government Printing Office,
numbers 100,000. Washington, D.'C., 20402:
Approved For Release 200&/08/10 CIA-RDP66B004QaR_ M 2QQ4I:Q003-4_*