SPY'S VISIT TO SECRET U.S. AIR BASE TOLD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800040009-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: January 26, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For Release 2000/08/03: CIA-RD
JAN 2 6 1965
,spy's Visit' to Secret
U. S. Air Base Told
STOCKHOLM, Jan. 25 1Rcu-(training, and the prevailing or-
tersl-The former Swedish air i ganization method.
force c o l o n e l , Stig Wenner- Value to Russia
stroem, serving a life sentence "Ile could also get an. idea
for spying for Russia, was of what aircraft there were,,
able to gain access to an I and the number of planes in
American strategic air base dif :erent organizational ? units.
where even some United States This was of the greatest value,
to the Soviet Union," the ma-
air force personnel were notijor.said. according to the re-
allowed, a .report issued today, port.
said. ' The m a,j o r said Wenner-
The report consisted of the stroem was an expert at ban-
final 900 pages of pre-trial tes- dung the Swedish embassy's
tunony released by the Swed- photographic apparatus but
ish government after security often complained his finger and I
screening. thumb were sore from wind-
Wennerstroem, Swedish air ing the film in the camera.
attache in Washington from Because of this he used to
1952 to 1957, admitted spying wear a glove while photograph-
for Russia for 15 years. ing documents, the officer
Goes to Air Base said.
V{rennerstroem told investiga-
An unnamed Swedish major tors that American intelligence'
who served with him in Wash- contacted nrim before he went
ington t o 1 d investigators in to Moscovr as air attache in
March, 1956, that he went with
Wennerstroem to an American 1943, according to the report.
can.
strategic air base where it was Visits College Libraries
practically impossible for for- When in Moscow and Lenin-
eigners to gain entry. grad he obtained information
"There were no restrictini s I about metallurgy for them in
college lib--.pries, but did not
on our visit, we even got into tell there the source when he
the inner, special security handed it to the Americans.
area. W'ennerstcoem said he did
"Once inside we were re- not charge the Americans any-
garded as entitled to see every- thing for the information be-
thing, which we did. cause he had access to unlim-
"Wennerstroem was , by itc~ Russian funds.
means of these studies able to "A seemed really funny to
get a clear picture of different me, as I had Russian orders
;kinds of air tactics, equiprnetit, to establish the best possible
eon:r~cts. T'banlcs to my con-
facts on the American side this
was made: ~,tnuch easier," be!
stiic i ? ;,
Approved For Release 2000/08/03 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000800040009-4