THE SPY WHO NEVER WAS iiCOMMUNISTS GET A CONFESSION OUT OF ME

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300410005-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 19, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

MAFJ W%MR
ommunis s et a Confession
leased ou March 26, 18&4,
after serving 27 mouth in
Russian and East German
tags.)
BY GABRIELE
HAMMERSTEIN
ay day, I shivered.
"The prisoner will make ti
arded army uniform, dye
due, tootnbrush, plastic cup,
them. This was the reuse
my engagernent in p h o n
The prison was apottessl
;lean. In held nearly 1,000 per
inns of different nationalities
tmong them Swiss, Wet Gee
once, Italians, Frenchmen
and two Americans: A "m
rom California," as scuttlehu
3AS
he western powers. I was
mong this last group.
Prison routine was keyed to
t prisoners have contact only
ith their cellmates, guards,
nd questioners. My cell mate
as a girl accused of spying for
he British. Since she Is still
ehlnd bars, I don't want to
hell on her case.
L'a ss we were being mrerro_
ated, we had to sit on a
ooden stool in our cell. Talk-
my singing-in defiance
rtsoti rules, of course-so th
set called me "American lut,
d went away again.
A l m o s t immediately;
ountryman stared banging
he all. "A-R-E Y-O-
-M-E-R?I-C-A-N I answe
G-A-B-R-I-E-LE H-A-.
-E-R-S-T E?I-N N-E?
-0-R-K." I-E-A-N 1-0-B.
WA-F-0?R-N-1-A," came
*
uietly to my chair again, sta ather than a penitentiary. eel the proceedings, sod mM get brought against her. I
meri
aping. Since my gano
new em megrim the exist oad Specs
race a the socalled 'Seneca
ept the the Jurisdiction on Repubt I of t wino
h i no vailable
art.
StW, dge the trial proceeded. T r Project
dge read the 1nMctment, an
keel ;9:.b to commt Comromors have been advised
venal s, which l refused. at revised plans nod spec ilia
for the construction will
The court recessed for lunch. opened at 2 p.m. PDT on
han t e session was oplited a y 27 at the Nevada Opaa-
gain, the Judge put oo little [Bide
s Office in Las Vegas.
ck hat, The leislans a
ier, nd .speoi[icyson may
, Gabriele Hammea[eln, obtained }rom T Tyson E.-
" oat the construction is coil,
merieans oted at approximately $108,006.
Four bids ranging from $149,
in Applause I. to $269,000. were received
hen the project was offered
vied audience he" Sunday, Y' improvement program he-
But Munich University can an^ Las Vegas, the Nevada
liter of blame for World Wa Y111
It was published first In Gee
zany and has won praise haft
right-wing groups a#i Wives
Geed
were killed yesterday when
heir car was hit by a train at
light Problem grade crossing. Mrs. Ireneat, 22, and Ma. Patricia Stott,
BRAINTREE, Mass. (OWl) - , were killed. Their husbands,
a five months the St. Thomas ether and Bernard, 22, were
ore Church Mothers' Club lightly injured.
avad 660 books of trading
amps to buy a new section welve Killed
agora for the Sisters of Nasa-
h Convent. BOMBAY (UPI) Twelve per-
It was discovered yesterday Oct nwere killed and 30 others
one of the nuns knew how to eriously iota r e d yesterday
rive. The sister superior said hen a speeding bus an into a
mother house in Kentucky a and turned over at ydre a
ill appoint a nun to take tim- 'ille2e. 20 miles from Hvdera
se, such as walking or y
own. We were awakened eel, we swapped case
a, m. Ersaa coffee and meet and experiences, eve
ices of bread were breakf emories of hotdogs and tole
'td two other watery cars -*be had been arrested
'ere pushed into our cells du lping several E a at Germ
the day. Five minutes ends escape to freedo
exercise" in six-by-twelve-f acer, he was discovered whil
ns, guarded by country go apping out a message to m
arrymg soldiers on a eani'o ad moved to anther cell. B
verheed, completed the des a were to "meet" the sam
notice. ay again, after I was se
"Lights out" was ordered enced, waiting for nanster
Oil-on overstatement, beau penitentiary.
strong overhead Boorhgh My Interrogation, in th
auld flicker on briefly e v e r eantime, continued along t
ve minutes through the rig arse lines as my quest l '
his measure was designed y
event suicides, same re t e Russians. When I end
r the y the stint }ar the CIA, I he
we were usually kept ,,b?, ,,. ,.r....._.,... w..
OneLWa-stn rw wires aVth outh, sometunes aceom lit mehow, probably throgh
?g.__ ..-_ .. ,.:.:,....,........., ...:., p... bk agngt, the KGB Mad
ntet'rogatmn wingwas reserve tectively-bY tapping out cad young whelp," All ou
an
alphabet In 'or East German national _ tiers of the alphabet n nversatioos were -1!.d
-I bea. a scuttle vin when he threatened on
cell above m me, ta il0 the "Wat ater tenos;" woe
mottled, but gulnh
risto had to stand in ware
old-fashioned, ed, fou four-left r-left n to their noses for days
merican expletlve. It w d?
sword me. it sounded w Summer was getring on, and
ord m me. Heedless of eft that ! would soon come
ands, I climbed on the am ri
al. All my demands, eith
y o our cell and, platen one a U.S. military Has
y mouth as close as possib ice" or to sees law y e r
the window above, I belt eded. I felt to rribl
t the lyrics m "I st am Attl bandseededoned. So I decided to to
on ..: In my hem We ruin ton, and hoped that-If
Av the
aused enouzh trmhle-t wo!!
:o my deception of the Russia+
nteuigence net.
long m euretga nattonau
h hands, whIch they fees
Ight reflect on the fate of
Lieutenant "Oubi"-t "'a
aped _a rea name-wa
ria:s, but could do nahing. S
2udy, because my trial was t
held on August 3 The charg
sheet contained these counts:
1.-Espionage against the "on
alien brother States."
2.~uccessful, active penetta
Pas t .,.be tried in an East Ger
n couetl)
3.-Recruttmem of East Gee
[eared information Of t h
ature.)
udicrous that I almost laugi
t loud.
Nl and-tbe next day-to Neu
randenburg, where :he I r I a
scheduled. Here I des
creel that my family had ar
pinged for Dr. Vogel, the law
he courthouse. Hai an hoe
ester, the judge and two "to
N anpmvee Development Train
Mug Act former clerk stenogro
to stenographer refresh
'Many stenographers had
cave they professing due
amity responsibilittes and nth
~rephy because they fat th
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