SOVIET ENVOY IN SWEDEN REJECTS PROTEST ON SPYING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800050004-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2001/07/27: CIA-RDP7
S6Mt,cwvoy in Swed6`n I
Rejects Protest on Spying'
cn.clal to The New York Times
STOCKHOLM, July 16-Thell
Soviet Ambassador to Sweden,
Nikolai D. Belokhvostikov. of-i
ficially denied today that em-t
ployes of the Soviet Embassy
had spied in Sweden.
The Ambassador saw the For-
eign Minister, Torsten Nilsson,
in his office and rejected a
Swedish protest.
Sweden protested to the So-
viet Government shortly after a
Swedish A?ir Force colonel, Stig
Wennerstrom, was arrested on
June 20 on charges of espio-
nage for the Soviet Union.
Two members of the Soviet;
.Embas.'y here were asked to}
leave the country. +'1
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