RIO DAILY DETAILS EAST GERMAN ESPIONAGE IN BRAZIL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700610003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 3
• Content Type: TRANS

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, o s versive system was organized in 1961 by Kurt
Ullrich, who was at that time the head of the East German Trade
Mission in'Rio do Janeiro.
RIO DAILY DETAILS EAST GERMAN ESPIONAGE IN BRAZIL
According to.Maonnol's statemonts
th
C
m
,
e
om
unist government
of Berlin promisedito'construct with tho.USSR a complete network
of infiltration and espionage in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Vene-
zuela, and Uruguay. The mernb'ers of 1-11 t d
a
I'
and Communist infiltration 'in South America. sMaen elnrevealedgthat.
in Brazil th'
Berlin -- The West GormAn.intelligence service recently com-
pleted a confidential report, containing important statements made
by Guenter Maennel, former secret agent of the East German Intel-
ligonco service, concorning the network o# Eat G
V y o neutralizing the attempts of them
'.sympathizers of the Chinese policy to assume command of Communist,
forces In Smith Amr%"4 ae.
China,and the Soviet Union; the German traderepresentatives wore
o
also given the res nne4h414t f'
tars, and 'laborunion leaders.
Following the.period in which difference
B n zat on o# collaborators
Influential in the politics and in the social life of the country,
such as;sonators deputies wt-4
V6 non all of the
information obtained through the Communist network of espionage in
-South America; and (3) to create en or i
t
L o *legation had the
following duties; (1) to organize, direct, and finance the local
Communist groups; (2) to channel to the Sovi U i
Password of Ullrich Was "Coffee"
a
l
n e this mission failed completely.
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regular telegraphic routes or by mail, becausewt
hemiradioj~station
sot up in Berlin to h
d
I , r c were identified by this password. His contact
with the Pnet
con ent..al and coded messages,received
or sent b U11 i h
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The Bonn government learned
throu
h M
'
,
g
aennel
s testimony, that
Kurt Ullrich initiated activities in Brazil under the secret name
of "coffee".- All of the fid
equate communications with agents.
.in any Bart of the world I
i
outs its of Berlin, this time with
sufficient power to maintain ad
y ong to maintain good communica
tions with agents in the Near East and in South America. The former''
agent of HVA revealed that a now receiving and transmitting station.
was recently installed in the k
Because of an error in calculation
h
e
, t
e equipm
nt which was
installed was not "sufficienti str
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