2 AP MEN WERE SPIES, RUSSIA SAYS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600430009-3
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 26, 1999
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2 AP Men
Were Spies,
Russia Says
MOSCOW, Oct. 16 (AP Iz-
a e an ar c
today by a writer Identified a
an Estonian 1I n g u I a t tha
accused a staff writer for th
Associated Press and a .forme
employe of the news service
of conducting espionage oper
ations in Sweden s e v e r a l
years ago.
The writer, Arthur Haman,
said he was a former AP
employe in Stockholm who
had recently come to the So-
viet Union. He said he' had
been threatened by the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency while
he was in the United States
seeking a professorship.
"Remembering many facts,
it became clear to me that the
American intelligence is busy
with intelligence activity in
Sweden," he said. "It widely,
uses the United States Embas-
sy, the Stockholm department,
of the age n e y Associated
Press as well as other Ameri-
can representatives In Stock-
holm."
He mentioned Thomas A.
Reedy, former chief of Scan-
dinavian services for the
AP, and Gustav Svensson, a
t former AP writer who worked
In Stockholm and later in
Moscow. Reedy is now as.
signed to the AP's London
Bureau.
Haman said that, "according
-')to rumors, Reedy had the
'/'frank of major In the
Ameri- can Armv."
In New York today, Wes'.
Gallagher .Jeneral manager of
the Assoiltted Press, said that
the story is Izvestia was com-
pletely t+ `acre. ti
"Neithip the Associated
any coq +'tion with any de-
partmed 4f the U.S. Govern-
went," ' ', , said.
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