SWEDE GETS LIFE FOR SELLING SECRETS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800040032-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 1999
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: June 13, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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1964
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$y Frederic FIeisher ? ? al:;o confessed to spyin f -
went for selling defense sec- Ibr 15 years until hls ar-
rets to the Soviet Union. 'rest last June, lie held sen-
The Stockholm Magistrate's
siti
, ?
ve posts in Moscow, Wash-
Coui?t also stripped Wenner- ington and Stockholm. 13e .
Strom of his reserve colonel was a Swedish air attache in
status and ordered him t
o pay Washington from 1952 to
the Swedish t;overnuien+. ?~??_ , n~.,
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--- -__........ vaiuc:r aweaisn law, Wen-
from Moscow during his 15 nerstrom th
Col. Siig Wennerstr
om
eoretically could
years as a Soviet spy ~ be paroled after 10
The sentencin j p Years: ,
g came. ust, Swedish legal and enal of- TLindahl, who informed Wen- ?
TO days before Soviet. Pre- ficials were reluctant to com- ; nerstrom of the verdict, said,;
mien T~hrushchev is due in ment on the sentence yester- ? he doubted that there would
Stockholm for .a -rood will day, but. many implied that _be an appeal. He said neither'
tour of Scandinavia. Officfals? they doubt he will ever be a . he nor Wennerstrom had be-
feared the case might produce free man again. Iieved the court would decide
-anti-Russian feelings. Pre- When.he applies for apar- on less than a life sentence.
mier Tage Erlander declined don in about nine years, it ~ Wennestrom will continuo
to comment on how the case seems unlikely that his re- to be confined !n a specially ..
rraight affect Mr. Khrush- quest will be granted. Pre- -built steel and cement cell in :.
chev's visit. ~ mier Erlander has called the Langhoimen Prison, He will ;
Wennerstrom confessed to cast "the. worst ever to shit be allowed to write and re-
turning over U?. S. Strategic ~ Sweden." .4 Life sentence is ceive letters, but ?they will be;
Air Command and NATO sec- . the most severe penalty censored. He will work a 45- ?.
refs to the Soviets, but the Sweden imposes in peace- hour week, probably doing
court tried him only.for his time.
crimes against Sweden. : He Defense attorney Carl.Erik , his cell.~e of office-work in: ; ~"
A Special Correspondent ? Nazi GermarLy during. World
Swedish Air Force Col. Stilt W,~r II, then for the U. S? be-
Wennerstrom was sentenced ..fore joining ,up with the
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