SWEDE TELLS SPYING ON U.S. FOR RUSSIANS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800050020-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: June 23, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

,e kurel, t E
cam` air. tftitte' ilkan
:;America. and Swt di mllits
'stcrets to Russian ,alentr over
:a 15-vent petiod.
A spok nfan said Coi Stig
Erik Constans Wenn,risiroerts,
57, was arrestat on -ispinnatie
charges last Thursday In wh# t
was described as the ~vors! Sri
case in Swedish histoi v
Col. Wennerstroetn fc'rve t 1 rel. Stig Wennerstroem
from 1952 to 195 as air a:tach:t
tha,'4Swedisb emi,asr,v in as Military Attache Maj. Gen
Washington. Informed .seurct's , Mikolsky and the embassy OW
said it was during t?nis tyre i secretfirY, . identified only
that he `'0"1a Ar.
ra _.- .
e
The colonel had gone ~o ^~ asks- The foreign ministry h
ington from Moscow , he i? be i lodged a strong protest with
had served a -year tol itussians against the-'spying
duty as air attache in tae ;;we(l and demand that it be stopped.
ish emb'
assY? PbotWiiphs L1oc4m,enta
A foreign ministry sp rke-mar Wennerstroem `admitted heinid-
said the colonel conf ssrtii tc ;)AB?oYgr.`n grettij l 4r-
security police that he had tnati(n" M the Aiiasians,dt iing
been selling top secret ntot. t yeat'a he spied f 1ftettn.
CPYRGHT.
mation to the Fussiaiis ince I >t41d seCurIty' poi' ' 'u,e"' pho-
194e. The spokesman -air the tographed top secret 6&Uments
government was iryintt tr, as- f and gave the. films tolhls con
certain the extent of t: re .;ini. tacts at the Russian embassy;
age caused to Swedish m ect -'it,, According to the spokesman,
The spokesman told a i ec . there was nothing to Indicate
conference tha: Swec,.n is , the colonel had any accom-
py case and ordered nevi tr Alter his five years of Wash-
eave Sweden irnrrsediately ington duty he returned to
Hats persona not teat. it i.h+ facts.
The Russians were kE ent1 ec st0ck.halnt, where he served in V,
.
it,e defense ennmisnd until 1961 'in`
nd Own at the f )reign ministry
- ;, ipec,aii;t )i disarmamenti:
fal+e`tt inns
Stn,kh:rft, the colonel
ti,e: is ; fe and two
al -;ftisive house!
>an9,tptbofDjurs_I
i i ih srd Ai wife were
- ?r,,". ?t t? ` ! a 3tholm social
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