PLANE PLOT TOLD BY 'CIA AGENT'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400460018-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: August 6, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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'agent of the U.S. Central Intel-
.ligence Agency told Communist l
high court judges here today ofi
plans to lure an East German)'
pilot into flying a Russian plane'
containing secret equipment toy
Guenter Laudahn, 36, an East:
Berliner who escaped to the West^
in 1962, said he was sent to East
Berlin three months ago to con-~1
tact the brother of an East Ger.
;.
man fighter
ilot
p
.
"I told him that- the more(
equipment'the MIG21 jet fighter)
contained, the higher the priced
would be,": Laudahn told the;
court.
Laudahn, an electrical engineer,
'Hansjuergen Hanke, 22, a waiter,
and Werner Baecker, 29, a lathe'
Operator,- went on trial today ac-;
cused': Of acting as Western
;
agents..',
Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA=RDP75-00149R000400460018-2