SPY'S PARADISE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800040020-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 1999
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: December 1, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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SPY'S PARADISE..
t-was- the correct description of Washington, D.C., when he
was picking up military secrets there, according to Stig
Wennerstrom.
is Stig ia.the personable Swede whom a court In his native.
land last June found to have been a Soviet spy since 1948.
He is serving a life sentence. -
-. Wennerstrom He is now revealed, by the Senate
Revelations Internal Security subcomnifttee,. to ,4 .
have testified that gathering vital in-,
formation in Washington was no trick at all, and the same
as to U.S. military installations all over the country.
As ,Swedish air attache in Washington 1952-57, Wen-
t,nerstrom was virtually. never challenged when he pried, into
j'.": milit ry secrets and defense plants. ,. On at least one,
bceasion, he slipped some-vital microfilm to -'a confederate
of his in the Pentagon itself.
4By-the way; t~ iaaeeurity j1 Washington nowadays ? -
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