HOW TO SPY, IN ONE EASY LESSON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800040028-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 1999
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: November 21, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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NOV 21 1964
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Hour to * Spy, in .One Easy Lesson.
By, Dom Bonafede extremely snort time. The noon of the same day Ire
OJ The Herald Tribune St?JJ speed with regard to this was ported that, according to my
judgment
WASHINGTON. of very great importance to the reports received
can
my work." by Moscow on an American
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attempt to surprisal action
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served in Washington, Col. officials' wives "liked to speak. were definitely wrong.'
Sill; Eric Constans Wenner- to me and my wife . . . this, Col. Wennerstocm reported-
stroem, the Swedish air at- in turn, impressed their as- information f eo that he secu most conve his
tache, cut a dashing figure. sistants whom I had not met ' tion wth U. S. w ile
Debonair and handsome as a yet : . . when I had made S. officials als litany
matinee idol, he was equally their acquaintance, I concen- on Junkers to U. S. military
trated on those who had con- installations and ' defense'.
'popular among top-level gov- tact with their highest plants and from classified ar-
ernment. officials and, the chiefs."' 1: titles released to him because;,
leading social hostesses:; of his position by the Nationr
An unwitting U. S. Marine al Advisory Committee for l
No diplomatic soiree was Corts officer, whom he had
complete 'without Col. Wen known, while both 'were as- Aeronautics.
nerstroem, who, with his signed to their embassies in He said -that he generally
Continental manner, charmed Moscow, helped him consid- delivered information, which
erablY' by finding him a home was almost always ' on film; s
the ladles. to his Soviet contact by way'!
In Washington and'a suitable of . Unknown to Washington, ` school, for his children and . handshake. The two,
e-
however, the colonel was .loaning him an automobile. said, practiced for hours be-
leading a double life as a Col. Wennerstroem said. fore becoming familiar with',
oviet spy identified by his the technique
fi
employers by the code name EASY JOB
"Eagle."
He canfessed In. testimony given earlier . U. S. was spying
in the U. S. was not particu-
this year at his espionage ]arly difficult for him. Since
trial in Stockholm and re- he was a diplomatic and mil-
leased yesterday by the Sen itary officer for a neutral
ld above'
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a 1,e Internal Security sub- coun
committee, the Swedish dip 'suspicion when he inquired
into secret military develop-
lnrr,at. diseiosed that his mo-. meats, .
dus operandi for gaining ac- His main: task for the Rus-
ec s to secret data was to cul- sians was to. obtain Informa-
vate U.S. officials and become tion on U. S. military tech-
friendly with their wives, .nical advances.
Col..Wennerstroem's story, ! On one occasion when the
colonel detailing his work on behalf on egnt the Soviet data
n str?ategic planning in' con-
of the Soviets and his clan- nection with NATO, he was
destine meetings with his ! told by his contact, a Russian
magazine spy thriller. Ap- such information.
0l: ' 9 'g nneretronn~
"The general was quite ?'43?P,. ""' '
Prentice spies nonetheless
might find it valuable as a; frank when he stated there,'
handbook on tricks of the as no sense to continue this 1
reporting because they had
trade. contacts in this field, whib)Q
After agreeing to spy for , were better than myself," he
the Russians in 1948, Col, recounted.
Wcnnerstroem was assigned: Another time he was tit
to Washington from April. gently asked by the Soviets
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192 to May 1957, Of his ex to find out if the U. S. was,
planning "a sudden surpris-
G perlences here, he told his ing action" against the Soviet
interrogators, "if it is desired' Union, as reported in Mosedw.-tj
to have closer contacts in the - Col. Wennerstroem prompt-
U. S., it is necessary, in mosti .ly drove to the Pentagon and
cases, to include the women. asked- for appointment with
He .recalled that upon ar "a great number of contacts."
when he found that there was:.
riving in Washington "1no difficulty, in seeing 'them,.;.
.ca.me into contact with A,ll 'q drew my own conclilsiofts ,
the leading circles within ai hand ittAn et ng in the..af -
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