(Classified) SAYS HE PLEADED AS SPY ON RED PLEDGE OF LENIENCY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200600048-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: October 18, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON STAIk O CT 18 1960
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Says He Pleaded Guilty
,
to espionage char';:s because
spy, said today h' ded
guilty
wed by a Sove o r(pras .
NNA, OM1
'tense.was, suspended and he was
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wn tk)e United States elections
1 xato 71on9 c iscus, ,with the
the' cqurt
Soviet law the material he
nor. rs dirk l co #csse iTT
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a#y C. Bei ett, 26 (left), and Mark I.
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ced" s ct IZ4 -Sov Union
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the fw' ile,;Preparingl'
t g
my note-
a. book from, me and said the .
informati( Iad been
Bath ed ering on suc1 facts as that
there are soldiers everywlJ reI
as'; in Russia was espionage u er
Soviet law.,
at 3frst refused
n, but United , Treatment Good
.
sy officials later II " the name Powers (U-2
P persuaded them to hold a F news 1 Pilom Francis Gary Powers,
conference to tell their ide; popped up many times. 1lx fact
of the story.
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they said, Powers was in thef "A5,11 too
Hear~le was so met f clues-1 about that`'iey thought it
tinned $rours a?,day was abode
But ssa~rd We were not 'One of the .photos showed
brainwa]ed &tad t e treat- soldiers on t e road wl,i.ch they
merit was very food. told me was"atheringxmilitary
"I exp,inew to the Russians
that Mark was writing a book
and that was why he gathered
information. But I had to
agree that thii
w not. e
off 4% fort of aetiv y that a orRal
tourist would do.'
"However, C ; ecn nged
Mark. We
separated u
out of the w
Mr. Kamin they were
seized Augu hen' they
tried to leave t e $ 'Viet Union
at Chop on the , t-f echo-
slovakia border.. ,
c
w
m.
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tel in neitrb zhgorod for nine 1'Txxoa~ or e ne r. Kaminsky and Mr. Ben-
days; then wn to Kiev where ` nett had hired an automobile
Mr. Ka- fin '-was put in' jail r' as no'i rea y afraid all in Finland 'and entered Russia
while i .. `rot, was de- that time because they made last J ly I for "a motgr tour in
tained el as a witness. it quite clear that I wouldn't the Soviet tYn`on. They were
be -shot. At first I was nervous. e ..e
t ,,.... L
s
ing, Mr.'I