IMPRISONED SWEDE CLAIMS HE SPIED FOR U.S. AS WELL AS FOR SOVIET UNION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800040012-0
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 1999
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: December 29, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON
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OEC 2 9 1964
STATINTL
Imprisoned Swede Claims He Spied
Fir J.S. as Well as for Soviet Union
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 28 (AP)
Stig Wennerstrom, the former
Swedish air force colonel
serving a life term for espio-
nage here, maintained he
spied for the Americans, too-
and let his Soviet masters pay
the costs.
The colonel said he did this
during his service as an air at
tache in Moscow in the late
1940s, according to interro-
gation records released by the
of pay for this service. He said,
however, he paid for the flight
in Russian rubles he had re-
ceived from the Soviet intel-
ligence.
money from the Americans,
as I found found it unnecessary to
complicate ? my _ r e l a t? i ti a,N 71
Wennerstrom said:.
Swedish authorities today..
Wennerstrom said he helped
the Amer Bans because the
U.S. attac es' travel within
the Soviet Union was restrict.
ed. He was asked to try to get
on a plane between Moscow
and Sverdlovsk in the Urals,
which the Americans had
heard touched down at an air-
field they were interested in,
he said.
According to the records,
Wennerstrom said he succeed-
ed in getting on the plane and
later reported on the airfield
to the Americans.
The former colonel asserted
that he turned down all'offers
Wennerstroht also said dur ti
ing the interrogations that
during a "vacation trip" tbR
Caucasus he collected,data ono
a new Soviet plane which
often passed 'through tiiat)
area. He delivered this ma,;
terial to U.S. ' agents. This
time, too, the Russians un,
k
nowingly paid the costs, he.
asserted.
Wennerstrom, however,
stressed that the main part of
his spying was done for the
Russians, both in Moscow and
Washington where he 'served
at the Swedish embassy. He
tried to get hold of a "little
"
black book
kept by a U.S.'
general and later contributed
to the Russian theft of an im.
portant map of Strategic Air
Command targets; he said.
Wennerstrom said he was
led to/spy first by chance And
curiosity. .
"t did not ,want' to ``accept'
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