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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200600053-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: October 17, 1960
• Content Type: PREL

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UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL OCTOBER 17s 1960
UPI-14
(AMERICANS)
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WAIDHAU3, GERMANY?-mE CxEF ANM BORDER POLICE SAID TODAY TWO AMERICANS EXPELLED
FRCVS THE SOVIET UNION AFTER ONE WAS CONVICTED ON SPY CHARGES ARE BELIEVED HEADING
FOR THIS IRON CURTAIN CROSSING POINT.
THE TWO AMERICANS, MARK I. KAMINSKY, 32, OF JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP, MICH., AND
HARVEY C. BENNETT, alts OF BATH, MAINE, WERE UNDERSTOOD TO BE MOTORING ACROSS
CZECHOZLOVAKIA AND TO HAVE STOPPED FOR THE NIGHT AT I'ILSEN, ABOUT 75 MILES FROG"!
HERE, POLICE SAID.
THE EXPULSION OF KAMINSKY AND BENNETT WAS ANNOUNCED FRIDAY BY THE RUSSIANS
AFTER REPEATED INQUIRIES FRCH THE U.S. EMBASSY IN MOSCOW ABOUT THEIR WHEREABOUTS.
THE TWO DISAPPEARED TWO MONTHS AGO WHILE TOURING THE SOVIET UNION.
YESTERDAY THE RUSSIANS SAID THE TWO AMERICANS WERE ARRESTED ON AUG. 2$ IN A
"RESTRICTED FRONTIER AREA" BY SOVIET GUARDS NEAR UZHGOROD IN THE UKRAINE CLOSE
TO THE "CZECH-HUNGARIAN BORI}ERS."
10/17--TS937AED
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