WENNERSTROM TELLS CLOAKROOM AND DAGGER STORY SPYING HERE WAS A BREEZE, SWEDE SAYS

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2006
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• Publication Date: November 30, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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By JACK STEELE which he obtained. secret Identities of Wennerstrom's bombing targets In Russia and.
Scripps-Howard staff writer technical data on U. S. weapons - alleged American "contacts".. then gave Soviet agents more ?
A former Swedis1i air force and defense" plans from were deleted from the transcript complete data on such targets
colonel who servedthe Russians American military officers and by Swedish authorities. assembled by the Americans;
for nearly 15 years as a industrialists during his service : from other sources.
"masters " has.reported that He disclosed he was recruited :
tho Sovietintelligence service. as Swedish air attache `as a Soviet agent in 190 when, He said he even helped Soviet
Washington from 1952-1957. after making friends with Soviet , agents obtain a map of U. S.,
number of least 150,000 He gave these two major di
targets in Russia from a courier's
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The spy, Col. Stig Wenner documents -and reports he Swedish `airfield for 5000 crowns , ,to the American intelligence J
strom, who was sentenced to photographed and turned over to ($100), center in Wiesbaden. #
life in -Stockholm last July; also ' Soviet intelligence agents In He soon was transfecrec~ to,-? While In Washington, he said,
estimated U. S. intelligence Washington: be often took films of the docu-
agencies use a . minimum of ? His friendly contacts with- . Moscow as air attache and was ments In his overcoat pockets to
d the
100,000 agents. U. S. military officers, chiefly in ' 'and the Russians v
, diplomatic receptions and then:
the
'Wennerstrom worked for a . The Air Force and Navy, who
time told Soviet "contacts" where his
? for information. was valueless.
as a "double agent . "unconsciously" permitted . him, coat was hung in the cloakroom
the U. S. before throwing his to see or "borrow" classified He said he already had agreed so they could remove the films.
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WENNERSTROM ? TELLS CLOAKROOM AND DAGGER STORY
!disclosed today in ar censored Industrial plants where he was ., W-ennerstrom ,related,'he?helped~'`homes. They used the chests to
Many new details of his Russians. a ge - Y gave each other keys to locked
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(complete loyalty to the commu- documents containing technical ? to assist U. S. Intelligence. In , He reported he and the Soviet::
;pasts. information sought by the Russia and thus drifted into his air attache In Washington also
role as a "dn,,h a nt "
It was made public by the., "'uwty - auer, ne , unutcaLeu may
the Swedish government might
? aunooa tancasuc . rvltu, to olrtain such information. I
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