WEST GERMANY TO OPEN PROBE OF SPY NETWORK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100850004-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 16, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 3, 1953
• Content Type: NSPR

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Espionage Trial of Three Double Agents
Discloses Flow of Information to Russia
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BY STERLING SLAPPEY
La Aneales Times News Service
N - The -west Ger-several countries. Others ar
man government announced
Friday that it will make a
.-weeping investigation of
the Gehlen intelligence orga-
nization, the spy network
pending.
Heinz Felfe, 43; Hans Cl
mens, 61, and Hans Triebe
5't, were agents for th
Gehlen organization, a gov
brought into public view hviernment spy group whit
the trial at. Karlsruhe ofluntil recently had manage
Since the npc'nirg early
~Ihis week nFthe'rialnl? i:leinz
Felfe and !,c o otttu Ger-h1 .s Central lntelligen
mans, several hizh Goo{'man+ agency to be.
officials have cal ed o'? nl Reports Photographed
of ill's
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-r.1 The three men admi
organization, -.tarn&I .ilr t'1e, ,,
general ~tihv Lxul&9 thc~phntographing thousands o
agency in vu ti *tt fir: t=ehlen reports, lists o
. Defense ',d1h'. -! l{ai un?e,f rents, double agents and
lAd.IJG , '~ l a it .~. ^" ' t e information to the Bus-
pr nbahly hit nett rt'~t qianx by way of Berlin tied
-wounded rea tt, culltat-ing,
of inforni,11ts !other cities.
t.'nion, a~jat rc exx1( t ttatl They have been spying
against th
Ger
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mans an
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there are Ji:...?r DI az
cases fir. retry LitIILgen.e!West while working for the
orgat izat'eta. German government for 10
years, They even charged
inve,II ndion Ple.llgcd 1,-ome of their double-agent
lie ajdt' that ,r a ?cst