YANK GETS LIFE IN RED CHINA 'SPY' ROUNDUP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400210020-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 20
• Content Type: NSPR

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1' ank Gets Life
In Red China
.'Spv'Roundup
CPYRGHT uteri
OINDON, Sept. 12, An
STATINTL
life' imprisonment a d two Chi-
neae were ordered'iecuted in
Singhai today as members of
arL'alleged eight-member Amer-
icafl spy ring, -the Communist
'N China News Agen y re-
por ed.
The other five members of
the "ring," all Chinese, were
given life sentences.
The' Amer#pan was Hugh
Francis Redmond, :34, Yonkers,
N.Y., (Redmond's mother, Mrs.
;Ruth Redmond, said at her
home. in Yonkers that she will
"appeal to the_ State Depart-
ment to see if they can do any-
thing N about f eertainls
think the St Department
should do alli4:ean to save an
.American bojfi` Irs; Redmond
said her son wprked for an im-
,port-export firni 'in China). '
During the, Geneva Far Ftast
Conference, 8 Cbfruese Commu-
nist spokesman,said Redmond
was arrested by the Chinese
Communist, regime An April,
1951. He said Redmond was
charged with being "an under-
cover agent of, the external
survey unit of the United
States C e n t r'i l Intelligence
Agency.."
Today's Communist agency
t cpgrt filesgibed him as having
dirl=et6d espionage teams to
collect Chinese government se.,
carets' and illegally store arms
while posing as an employe of
the "Hennigsen Produce Co.,
a United States business estate-,
lishment."
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