SPIES--NATO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70B00338R000300200030-0
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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2005
• Sequence Number: 30
• Content Type: PREL

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NOR 146 EPB961
1504 : SPIES--NATO:
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TES AROUND
T 30 REDEPLOYING 7 000 TACTICAL NUCLEARAPONS INAHID ENNSIITS.ARE
EUROPE AS A RESLL.T' OF_ THE SPY, SCARE SWEEPING WEST GERMANY AND ANTO ,
INPORME) SOUR( S ?SAID TODAY.
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TH(ESOURCES ALSO SA P COD .ARE BEING (HANGED AND N
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CATCHERS ARE RUNNING DIS ET.,....9 SR ON-MILITARY AND. CIVILIAN
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THE 11V3ED STATES, BRITAIN, WEST IZ.!W ANY, ITALY, GREECE
EMPLOYES AT POLITICAL ~. S_oUrS,II. BRUSSELS.
HEADQUAR~IERS ALLIED POWERS EUROPE (SHAPE) NEAR HERE AND AT OTHER
INSTALLATIONS.
THE HUNT FOR A SUSPECTED COMMUNIST SPY RING TOOK ON NEW'URGENCY
AFTER THE ARREST OF NAHIT IMRE, A SENIOR TURKISH OFFICIAL AT NATO,
ON SUSPICION OF ESPIONA(E IN SPETEMBER, AND THE MYSTERTOl.JS DEATH
OF WEST (}RMAN ADMIRAL HERMANN LUEDKE , A FORMER SHAPE LOGY"' T f `>
OFFICER- LtEDKE IS SUSPECTED OF HAVING BEEN A SOVIET SPY.
NATO. PLANNERS ARE UNDERSTOOD TO BE ASSUMING THE WORST AND.. ACTIN
ACCORD IN (LY_..
A 'top, SECRET _REPORT ON THE SPY SCARE WILL BE PRESENTED TO NATO
MINISTERS WHEN F'Y.. h T E WOVE`, 14r 16, `THE. SOURCES SAID ?
AND
REPORTED COLLABORATING ON THE DOCUMENT.
(AND) CPM/D5
X X X DOCUMENT. MONTHS BEFORE THE BEGM THE SOURCES SAID TYwA A
PFE5'ENT PUBLIC SCARE. MARKED INCREASE IN COUNTER-
ESPIONA(E ACTIVITIES BY BOTH SIDES IN THE MUCKY UNDERG OUND EAST?
WEST WAR, THEY SAID.
ONE THEORY ADVANCED HERE IS THAT SEVERAL TO SOVIET SPIES ESSI WEST
(ERMANY WERE DEL I BERATEY "BLOWN IN AN THE WEST (ERMANY SEIRTY SERVICES AND DRIVE A WED(E BETWEEN
THE WESTERN ALLIANCE. THE SCARE HAS INTENSIFIED COLLABORATION BETWEEN
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NTELLIt VCE A(ENCIES WHICH ARE POOLING INFORMATION ON
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THE SUSPECTED RIN 3, THE SOURCES CLAIMED.
REUTERS (AHl)) CP 1/DS
Comment: There s unhappiness in NATO and some o I i he precaut on
noted above (code changes and security checks) have been or
tiered. Panic does not reign, however, and cable trai'i.ic is
silent on any repositioning of weaponry.
These comme-)ts represent the initial and tentative reaction of the Office
of Current Intelligence to the attached i t e r ? f-- -- +he news services.
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