AMERICAN 'TOURISTS' SET FREE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300370072-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 30, 1998
• Sequence Number: 72
• Publication Date: October 20, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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Sanitized -Approved FoK' I ase' CIA-Rt P75-(10001 F2000300 qpg 6
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American
`Tourists'
Set Free:
rens, one of Whom said he' en-,
''red the Soviet Union to gather
notes to prove Russia was plan-
nin, sear, crossed the Iron Cur-
'?iin border ,to'freedom Wednes-
1:+v after u, 1ergoing a secret
t. tn.litary trial in n-h;cti
loam?naky rtpd ~-If, Manned on-
tare x miiittny court which tried
hits on Supt V.
Kaminsky .t.t,d the Northeraft
I:ducatignal ''.l'td in PhiIAdelphla
'had gr.ihteci ~tni and Bennett
eac ti a $2 (TA bcltotar:4h.ip to &
r;ance the trip.?
vets to 1.0c-;e1, them t?re not
;i, rreslul unlit the Soc;iet Union
annrntturd list week they were
be nn expcilyd as 90cs.
The pair rued up in Austria
'Monday following sc?~n wTek$' of
and Uzgorod in
rlctrntiort in K&
the Soviet Ukraine.
1;aminsky said he had pleaded-
.guilty to n charge of "collecting
material and c(Htcting Activi-
tics incompatible with those o4 a
re molar tourist." He strid he was
gent!