PRAVDA ARTICLE ON TRIAL OF GERALD BROOKE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200440004-1
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 23, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN

INFORMATION SERVICE
23 JULY 1965
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PRAVDA ARTICLE ON TRIAL OF GERALD BROOKE
Moscow PRAVDA 23 July, 1965=-A
(Article by B. Aleksandrov and K. Raspevon: "Mr. Brooke's Trip Was a Failure")
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(Text) On 22 July'a public trial began in Moscow in the criminal case of British i
subject Gerald.Brooke, who has'.been charged with subversive anti-Soviet activities. ,
A panei`for criminal cases of'the Moscow City Court'is hearing Brookets case, The
panel consists of L.E. Almazov, chairman of the criminal cases panel of the Moscow
City Court as court president, people's assessors V.I. Obraztsov and P.I. Popov, and
B.Q. Khodyrev, court pecretary.
Charges for the state are being presented by Senior Assistant to the USSR Prosecutor
..General, State Justice Counsellor Second t].ass G.A. Terekov. ]awyer N.K. Borovik of
the Moscow City?.Lawyer.a'Board is acting for the defense. Representatives of the Moscow
working people and Soviet and foreign correspondents are present in the court hall.
According to the charges, on 25 April 1965 British subject Gerald Brooke was
arrested redhanded by'state security organs in'Moscow and was brought to criminal'.;
court for subversive anti-Soviet activity, a crime specified"by Part One,
Seat. 70 of the RSFSR Criminal Code.
.After announcement of the charge, the court president asked defendant Brooke'
whether or not he pleaded guilty on the charge made against him. Pefendent
,brooke
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replied: "Yes,,I plead guilty entirely and completely."
The defendant was interrogated during the evening session. He admitted that he was
aware of the criminal nature of the task assigned to him. The trial continues'.''-
.
Evidently Mr. Brooke had a solid reputation among his colleagues; he had a
Bachelor's degree in Russian language and literature.. After graduating from the
Slavic department of London University Brookes became a teacher at Holborn College
in London. Mr. Brooke is a member of the Labor Party. .
When, this April, Brooke went to Moscow at the head of a group of college students
who are studying Russian, few people would have assumed that he would stay in the
Soviet Union for a long time. But after only a few days he was arrested by state
security organ workers in the apartment of Muscovite Konstantinov. Workers of the
-State Security Committee, entering the room in which'Konstantinov and Brooke and his
~?
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wife Barbara were, saw that the red leather binding of an album with postcards
of movie stars which Brooke hac! brought with him was torn up. Anti-Soviet
literature, rubber printing plates, 'a long. list of,addresses of Soviet and foreign
'ditizens, and instructions for receiving f.eci hers
8 P ng coded radio messages
were contained in the cover under the red leather. All this was intended for '.
Konstantinov. The nature of the "souvenirs" from London be'fween.the doubXe,bottoms
of the toilet case proved. to be ?,t~ye same ?iype,.,
Continued
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