'CIA AGENT' GIVEN LIFE AS SPY IN EAST ZONE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400460011-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: August 11, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON POST'
AND TIMr ERALD
Sanitized - Approved For eVease CIA-R
AUG 1 1966
CPYRGHT
CIA A gent'PGiven Lite as Spy in East Zone
EAST BERLIN, Aug. 10
The East German High Court
to, sent. a?r self-confessed
Agent of the U.S. Central In-
telligence Agency to .'prison
for life on chaiA6 q W.,
Guenter 'Laudahn, .36, who
admitted trying to lure. an
East German pilot ' to fly, a
Reuters
Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00149R000400460011-9
ng secret equipment to the l er, 29, said they worked for
est for thq CIA, bowed. hiss West Berlin escape organiza-
Hanke, who said he was in=l Political observers here said!
volved in plans to get East they believed the 5-day trial,
nounced and turned his back
on the Court.
Laudahn told the Court yes- Germans to the West via, the which was given massive pub-:
terday that the cruited West German,' Czechoslovak licity in East Germany, was,
him through rCIAe of 'his and Bulgarian borders, ,was timed to coincide with the,
personal problems. . sentenced to ten years: . ,. first public celebrations by
Two other meh.tried with ? Baecker,, 'arrested. on :the the., Communists Saturday ot.
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s. J u e r g e n Bulgarian - Turkish;' border the . anniversary' of the build
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