MOSCOW CAUTIONS ON JAILED BRITON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600330002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 29, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For Release 20 ,J ~ f&"-00149R000600330002-1
1967
CPYRGHT
llough lOScOW CAUTIONS hose rto,be tlenient and Moscow{husoancl several
onm cnt wasra demon stra
im on the lesser charge of;tion ' of the Soviet Union's;
ON I PD i QIr~ nti-Soviet activity. Soviet of-:humanitarian treatment of the'
icials who searched him found prisoner. She has been per-'
"notebook with coded intel-'muted two visits, the last
Warns of Retrial If London igence inftrmation" and otherialmost a year' ago.
Presses for Release vidence proving that he was Incidentally, the reputation
spy, the article said. of Brooke's wife is far from
Izvestia indicated that the irreproachable," the paper said.
By RAYMOND II. ANDERSON ritish effort to win cicmency"What she deserved is not
Special to The New York Timea or Mr. Brooke was a press visits with her husband but
,
Dec. MOSCOW, 28 -- Izves- mp; rign. It did not allude to joint responsibility with him
for subversive activityagrinst
tia, the Soviet Government) re many representations on'the Soviet Union.,,
newspaper, warned today that ir. Brooke's behalf by Prime
British efforts to win freedoms mister Wilson and the British Britain Voices Surprisd
for Gerald Brooke, a college oreign Secretary, George Special Jo The xcw York Times
lecturer serving a five-year; the ' , Dec. S - The
term here for "anti-Soviet ac LONDON, or to "iBritish Gov
term
could lead to his be nnient's request that its con-1i?oreign Office termed "cxtraor-i
?ing tried for espionage and bc-I tar officials be allowed toidinary" the apparent Soviet))
al lair Mr. Brooke and for;threat to try Gerald Brooke
ing subjected to the full per. I
emency to be extended toyagain on new espionage charg
cs .
And this would be only fair, lii1 if Britain pressedhcre requcs's
Izvestia added: Mr. Brooke, who is 30 years for clemency or for regular cnn- .
The paper declared that So- . d, was sentenced to one year'sular access to the -prisoner.'
viet justice had treated Mi'.ii prison and four years in a The suggestion that ;`lr.l
!Brooke with more "humanity"l bor colony, where he now is Brooke was a spy was put for-{
,than he deserved since he was! tting timbor? ward two weeks agb by.H.A.R.j.
a "spy" and could have been Amnesty Did Not Apply (Kim) Philby, the British who
sentenced to 15 years. When the Soviet Govern= was a Soviet agent and now;.
Furthermore, it added, his lives in Moscow.
wife, Barbara, who was with i ent declared an amnesty in
' nor of the 50th anniversary of Philhy told a reporter!
Mr. Brooke when he was; the Bolshevik Revolution o, the Sunday Times of London,
seized, also could have been st month, hopes were raised that the N.T.S., the organiza-I
tried for espionage, but 'had ? tion whose material. Mr. Brooke'
been allowed to return tor Britain that .Brooke would carried into the Soviet' Union,,:
released. . However, the ?
Britain. nnesty (lid not apply to really belongs to, the Central
Recruited by N.T.S. rsons guilty of "serious state Intelligence Agency."
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Mr. Philby said, that the
Mr. Brooke was arrested in. imcs,' as anti-Soviet activity
Moscow in April, 1965, when' d propaganda is classified in N.T.S. "used to be financed" {'
he visited here with a grouplt is country's criminal code. by British intelligence, but ,was.
of tourists. He was tried threes Izvestia charged that the handedover som