'CIA AGENT' GIVEN LIFE AS SPY IN EAST ZONE

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CIA-RDP75-00149R000300420008-8
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RIPPUB
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K
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1
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November 11, 2016
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December 21, 1998
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8
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Publication Date: 
August 11, 1966
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NSPR
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'CIA-RD AUG 1 1 1966 CPYRGHT tions. . Hanke, who said he was in volved in plans to get East Germans to the' West via.the West German,' Czechoslovak and Bulgarian borders. ,was sentenced to ten -years. . , Baecker, 'arrested. , on `'the Bulgarian - Turkish:;'. b OT d 6r Sanitized - Approved For-Release : CIA-RDP75-00149R000300420008-8 Sanitized - App Ageu' Given Life as S.....; in East Zone - / Reuters EAST BERLIN, Aug. I to_ ~sert? _a,,,self-confesZe .a ent of,. the U.S. Central I Ing secret equipment to the I er, 29, said they worked for West for the CIA, bowed. hiss West Berlin escape organiza- ad as the sentence was pro- p unced and turned his back o the Court. Laudahn told the Court ves- t relay that the CIA r crusted h in through- roof. 'his p rsonal problems. . ' Two other men .tried with telligence Agency}, to _.priso for life on charges ahn, .36, wh Guenter Laud admitted trying to lure. a; A. i. r vrc? y ? .~ v UULUIU, as a U a -v u v b y .:IC-2i auperaoitic jet ooliEa 22s;a-nd ei'rier Baeck whilo,, trying .to~::smuggle,,, an t h e East German sclentst and his wife to the W,,st y car, wag, sentenced to si.e- years. Political observers here saidi they believed the 5-day trial, which was given' massive pub-. licity in East Germany, was, timed to coincide with the. first''public celebrations by the.,.' Communists Saturday oiy