EAST GERMANS CHARGE MILWAUKEEAN AS A SPY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200700002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 14, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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1oV 1 4 1967
w vview this eta as Ftl 1 arrived in r'rankfurt, I called -
blatant disregard of an individ'I;erlin and was told he hadn't
ual as we do similarly the pro;, returned from East Berlin. My.
longed period of detention ir: daughter-in-law said he went
the case-of Peter T. Feinauer." there with the intention of pho-
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A r. wau -eean seized i n
east Berlin in e'mtember will
be tried by t. : , imunist gov-
ri .~; e n t on
c _.:' es of spy-
-- e United
govern
-
a1c V. Wieden-
hoeft, 30, son
of Mr. and Mrs.
.Kurt W. Wie-
,enlioeft, 3811
N. 42nd st., is
being held in
an*
n ?as t Ger-
mu . ... He was arrsted Sept.
5 doing research for a
thesis for Columbia
Thu dare of his trial was un-
knov. ., the government said.
Wi mdcn:. oft is charged with
it said.
The state department re-
leased a statement sharply crit-
"The Mysterious arrest ard,l
structor who was in East Berlin
to pursue his doctoral. disserta?,
tibn on Berlin architecture is
States," the statement said.
learn of the charges
Mr. Wiedenhoeft. His x e
"The fact is he has beeen held
incommunicado by East
German: authorities, I
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When Wiedenhoeft failed to
1
Oct. 7, 1966, and subse I return to West Berlin, his wife
quentlyj went to East Berlin searching
sentenced to 15 years in an,; for him, his mother said. The
East German prison. Feinaueriwife notified East Berlin police,
narges or espionage a pd being cials and hospitals, Mrs. Wie-
~
n agent of the CIA y
without. derihoeft said.
ormal char e -
s
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Wiedenhoeft, who was bon
Milwaukee, met his wife
hen he took graduate course
Munich. They were married
Germany Aug. 26, 1960.
F,
' A civil engineer, Wieden-
"We shall continue to exert; Discovered Nothing 1 oeft and hi
if
s w
e returned to
every effort we can to secure) "She couldn't find out any. e United States, where he
the release of Mr. Wiedenhoeft] thing," the elder Mrs. Wieden- orked for a construction firm
and Mr. Feinauer," the state' hoeft said. -"She went over the
epartment said. isume evening and the next day.
Wiedenhoeft, a preceptor in;And then she was told she
Germany June 10, with hi ' and she went to talk to him
versify. They were traveling oiqwaslaiica).
i C lumbia travel grant, ac{ And he-admitted they were
di
h
ldi
hi
"
or
ng
o
m.
ng' to his mother.
He had been to East Berlin Mrs. Wiedenhoeft said they
tographic expeditions to gttheiBerlin and another in East Ber-
aterial for his thesis, hisllin, but so far no one had been
other said. Permitted to see her son. He
She left Milwaukee Sept. ,.has not been able to write let-
ters and his wife has not been
e day after his arrest, on a able to contact him she said )
without. Returned Last Month
rs. Wiedenhoeft said
,
Mrs. Wiedenhoeft returned'?
cing aware that her son had,.
on detained, :to Milwaukee last month, she
When she arrived in Ger-tsaid, but her son's wife and
any, Mrs. Wiedenhoeft said,; their children remained with'
ied
..
en oe t
Her son's wife was born inl .... said ucr'
'rlin, Mrs. Wiedcnho.ft ,iiid, daughter-in-law learned 1 a s V
uldren lived with there while
e thesis. Mrs. Wiedenhoeft
id.
"I wanted to surprise them,"
rs. Wiedenhoeft said. "When
trial for spying, but was not,
told when.
"She said it in 1 g li t take;
weeks or months."
a d studied art evenings at Go-:
1 mbia.
He later returned to Wi9con-
s t and received a master's de-1
g ee in art hismory from the)
iversity of
Wiedonh(, eft's brother,}
lph,. 35, is pastor of Deerfield)
theran church and Liberty
theran church in Deerfield'
-
(Dane county). A sister, Mrs.'
chard Strauss, 23, lives in,'
Ilahassee, Fla.
Wiedenhoeft's parents were'
b rn in'Germany. His mother,,'
ctoria, 57, was born in Ber-r
Ii . His, father, who is 62, 'wash
b rn in Kiel. He is a retired
son contractor.
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