RUSSIA TOURISTS DENY SPYING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300370080-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 30, 1998
• Sequence Number: 80
• Publication Date: October 21, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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Two-young. U. tourists, Wflu
woe` deported .troin Russia aft-
trbeing detained on spy charges
for seven weeks, denied yester,
day they acted as agents of, the
Mark I. Kaminsky, 28, otMm
Arbor,. Mich., and , Harvey C.
categorically denied they were
espionage ligents after. they
landed here from Europe. Drew.
Pearson,.asyndicated colt{mnist,
had written that while they
wcre posing' as toUrists .they,
were wo %ing for the,CIA.'
'Y can -say definltgly Ihat;I
was not a CIA ag; 'nt," said Kai
"I )-,as report Is completely
false," said Bennett. ?'
Kaminsky was sentenced to
;expelled instead of serving h1
e4 as a materlal,witn4SS
fore and during.the trial.
:"- Tlt+e`; two t:islsted they we
thing-,"' Incompatible"' with ac
Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00001 R0.00300370080-7