A SWEDISH SPY FOR RED MONEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800050021-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 21
• Content Type: NSPR

r Release 2001/07/27: CIA-RDP75-0
-Sweden's histol y exploded
yesterday wr~n the announce-
ment that a S ed+sh Air
Force colon(i was ur uer ar-
rest. accused of SP -11V for the
Russians since 19 8 His two
Soviet contacts in ,it,?ckholm
were ordered expo ;et
Col. Stiq Wer ie> stroin--
wwho was . wi h t.r attache
in Washirgion fr:im i9b2 to
7957-has cr,nfes d 11, selling
military sec rata ,t ai s +awu
country anc, of t rurr ccun-
te 1e$:. rnclilfnng nr (Jliited
States.
WennerKti on, r
>,wedish au+horit s
:.odd
e t.,iied
"for money' and rta i nu ac-
complices He s clla.+ged
roeciflcalts with y,hotoar&pttfi
rig secret documents artd
handinE,tht film., to conticta
at Soviet +Ernbass: receptaoni.
Reaction ill L111" U11014
tionally neutral ration 0411)v
spy scandell was .o vehement
yesterday that t.h `re was ape-
culatfon that 8 0, F'rumier
{hrushcket, tray see ,,reed to
cancel a Ortiltvi: :,g visit
xierc.
\'cnr c Strom. A
hcaan hl: career a
officer ou t 193+ it
st the A : Foret
I56,
a gravy
isfarred
-'of Sig Lail Wennerstrom
twice in Moscow--first as as-
sistant air attache from 1940
to 1941, and, again as air alt-
Cache from 1949 to 1952. lit was then sent tO Washington. ~..
'
,ttSonhis rrturn'to BtockJ 2ft
Ministry until 1" autumn.
, w
try 1961, and has alnce been,
an adviser to the Foretgu,,, t
Ministry on disarmatnen .+ ;
Wennerstrom has been de-lw
Sorated by the 44lericarl,,
French and Mexictiit `.1;PvgM-
n1c nts and is a,ki>iiiUk,Ot tW4
of Sweden's moi:t~ wl tin-
quislted orders-:-the ^rl' tr of }fl
thr Sworn and the CIi`lr of
at lved
Approved For Release 2061/07/27 : CIA-RDP75-00149R0008 00 21-9