'MISSING' PAIR LEAVING USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200600056-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: October 17, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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gpelled xront the OVTe>
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believed he f'or t
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32, Jeffkrsa
Mic11 , and He ntt,
34, of=Fath ate e4e
stood to be moi tts3.
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stopped for the tatg
sen, 'about 75 miles fl t , te1e,
M;;S1NG
announced Friday by_ to
sians,_ The two d
two Iionths ggo~ wfi e tour
ing the SovieUn"ton tower.
Yesterday the Russians said
the two Americans were ar-
rested on Aug. 25 In a "re-
stricted frontier area" by So-
viet guards near Uzhgorod in
the Ukraine.
was'eonvicied and
gd to iO yea. rs ilnpris-
,,.aecording to the So-
,Taiss said that Mlr_ Kamin-
o"ex of tation by the Fresidi
''of the Supreme Soviet in
'of his reported "sincere
f
otossiot~` and repentance."
QUOTE
a ency said Mr. Ben-
turd state's evidence
der unced Mr. Kamin-
lligence service. It
espionage."
d a formal protest
en?odged with the U. S.
to .a a y,
Bata, Mrs. Berviett said
she was completely baffled"
by the entire affair. She said
she had not heard from her
husband since she was noti-
fied of his expulsion.
Mr. Kaminsky was sen- Daniel of Granger, Ind., said
tenced to seven years in pris- the charges were "poppycock"
on after his "confession" and and sounded like "standard
conviction by a military court Russian propaganda.")
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