WOMAN HELD AS SPY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404240005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 21, 2010
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 3, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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By DANIEL HAYS,
STEWART AIN
and I)ON SINGLETON
A 67-year-old Fast
German woman was-held
without bail as part of an.
international Soviet spy
operation yesterday. af-
ter FBI agents grabbed
her as she tried to smug-
gle U.S. military secrets
out of the country in a
hollowed-out cigaret
pack, authorities said.
The woman, Alice Michel?
son, who described herself as
a lecturer on Marxism at. an
host German institute, was
arrested Monday night at.
Kennedy Airport -after' she
fill into an intricate trap set
by an American double.
t dent. -
Michelson was charged
under a statute that. carries
the death penalty or life im?
prisonment upon conviction,
according to U.S. Magistrate
John Caden. There was no
immediate indication that
prosecutors would seek the
death penalty, however.
The "mole" who upset
Michelson's applecart was a
U.S. Army sergeant who was
recruited into the spy ring in
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
3 October 1984
Alice Michelson faces magistrate John Caden in Brooklyn Federal Court yesterday,
'Iy_- ~ - CONTACTED.. BY _- tele- The sergeant met with
described as "safe houses phone at her. office yesterday Soviet agents twice in Mexico-
for Soviet spies.
City, and at the meetings he
The agents carried a afternoon. Weisman express-
mysterious black-wrapped . ed surprise when she was was paid $6,500 in cash and
package out of the apartment informed that her apartment promised $500 per month. He
at 59-15 47th Ave., Maspeth, -had been searched by eight was instructed to dictate clas-
Queens, and they questioned .-FBI -agents. She denied any. sified material into a tape
the man. listed as the occu- - recorder and then shown
pant of the apartment at 888 knowledge of anything r elat- how to secrete the tapes in
-Eighth-Ave. in Manhattan. ing to--Soviet spies. . specially constructed Marl.
boro cigaret packs, the
According to papers filed
The
occupant -of
the hian
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with Caden. the twisted trail agents said.
Germany three years ago, au. - hattan apartment, identified ~
t.horities said. as insurance ..agent: George leading to Monday night's
WITHIN HOURS of Friedlander, 70, _ was not arrest began three years ago
charged. in Germany, where the
Mic?helson's arrest, which The Queens apartment is serviceman was contacted by
occurred as she tried to registered to Martha Weis- a KGB agent named "Misha."
board a flight . to Prague and man, identified by authorities The sergeant pretended to
Kast. Berlin, FBI agents as- a speech teacher at City join the Soviet spy ring, then
armed with federal warrants College in Manhattan. Neigh= contacted the U.S. Army In-
scorched two apartments, bors used words like "quiet." - telligence Command, agents
one in Manhattan and the "nice" "lovely"; and said.
other in Queens, that were "pleasant" in describing
Weisman.
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