REVEAL REDS TRIED U.S. TOURIST AS SPY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300370048-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 30, 1998
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: October 17, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

Sanitized - Approved For Release : C
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U. S. Tourist as Spy
MOSCOW, Oct. 17 (AP).-A-1 America tourist ex-
hclied front. the Soviet Union was convict C, of spying..
The Soviet news agoncy Tars
`5ttid the tourist. Mark I. Ka-
min y. 26, a teacher from Jef-
ferson Township, Mich., was
'Sentenced tb seven years im-
I i isonment but was expelled
after he had pleaded for clem-
ency and showed "sincere .. .
repentance."
said Nil. Kaminsky confessed
before the Military Tribunal
that he had collected intelll-
f;cnce information.
it, specified that Mr. Ka-
mnin:.k' had photographed mill-
tr'ry installations and carried
a notabook containing "coded
notes about the location of an
artillery basr, radar installa-
i tion., and a military a.rf leld.'
ENTERED BY CAR
.Nir. Kaminsky' entered Bus-
+i i last July 27 by automobile
with another American tourist,
Harvey C. Bennett, 26, of,
Tracy, Calif. About three-
weeks later they- disappeared.
Nothing further was heard of
them until the U; S. State De-'
partment anno eed last Frl-.
day that they 'had been ex-
pelled for being In a forbidden
area.
The two were said to have'
been ousted at the Soviet-
Czechoslovak border town of
U'hgorod., $o far they have
made no contact with ? U. S.
embassies on the WesterI1 side
of the Iron Curtain.
Tass said Mr. Kaminsky had'
been financed as a spy by an
American organization it called
the Fair Craft Fund. It said'
he told the court at Kiel that
he "wanted to make come
money."
CONFESSION CITED
lie was quoted as having ad-.
mitted that he gathered infor-
mation on troop concentra*
(ions, the location of radio and
power stations, military camps.
and their approach roads. And
details about bridges. rallway,-
stations and heavy industrials
complexes.
He reportedly said he was
going to submit a report to the
:?und once he got back to the
United States and, planned to -
write a "slanderous book" abouti
the Soviet Union and illustrate,
it with pictures he had taken. '
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