FOIA
REDMOND WAS SPY 8 YEARS, PEIPING SAYS
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Collection:
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP75-00001R000400210017-3
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RIPPUB
Original Classification:
K
Document Page Count:
1
Document Creation Date:
December 15, 2016
Document Release Date:
November 14, 2003
Sequence Number:
17
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NSPR
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STAT
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edmond Was `Spy'
Years, Peiping Says;
United Press
Held by Reds
The Red Chinese radio at Pei-
ring said American business.
man Hugh Redmond (shown
here), 34, of Yonkers, N. Y.,
Ills been sentenced to a life
` TOKYO (Tuesday), Sept. 14
U.-Radio Peiping broadcast a'
long report today on the "es
plonage a 'tifities" of an Amer.
ican sentefI i Monday to life
imprisonment by a Communist
Chinese. aouiit.
The Red r44io said the Amer.:!
ican, Hugh Frances Redmond,
of New Yorb;#.bad been a spy;
in China simee''1946 and set ups
s e c r e t radio equipment to
broadcast his i'gports.
(In Washing the State Dc-
partment rejected the spy.
charges and saldledmond was
a "legitimate" businessman em-
ployed by .];Ieniirsen & Co.,,
Ltd., with dR"i es in Hongkong'
and Shanghai.)
Redmond. used invisible ink;
In compiling his data and 16
secret code books for radio`
transmissions, the 700-word
Peiping indictment said.
When he ran short of funds
iii 1950, three American Cath-
p
g
said were working under Red-
niond. also were convicted of
spying. Two were given death
sentences.
When Redmond was arrested,
police found in his possession
a spy payroll, a bottle of Chem
ical developers for invisible;
'ink, instructions to Chinese!
spies, addresses for radio coin
munications with intelligence
agents in Hongkong and 31
messages, Peiping said.
Redmond used an alias, Je-I
rome Strother, and a code
I name, Euclid, in his espionage
work, the Communists said.
The Communist radio said i
`'Redmond c-o n f e s s e d to the
crimes listed in the indic
inent"
said.
Seven Chinese who Pei
in
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