COLONEL: 'DOUBLE SPY? I TOUCHED ALL BASES'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800040043-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 1999
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: May 27, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2000/08
NEW YORK MAY 2 7 194
DAILY NEWS
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Stockholm, May 26-A Swedish air force colonel -
awaiting sentence as a Soviet spy told investigators he
a-e worked for the UniLed States a d ussiwat tha ba m@
time, and also had . spied or , Nazi Germany, it Was dis-
closed today.
Col. Stig Wennerstrom, 57, for-
mer Swedish air attache in Mos-
cow and Washington, said he had.
no difficulty in collecting infor-
rnatio-nabout U.S. defense indus-
tries for the Russians.
No Preblem for Him
"This was no problem for mc,
as I made purchases. for the
Swedish air force," Wenner-,
strom said in secret pre-trial pro-
ceedings just made public in part..
"The air force bought a greal
deal of material from the U.S.
and I visited many industries, It
was easy to make contact with k..'
the top executives."
He said he turned over to Mos?
cow information on American Po-
laris submarines.
The U. S. Embassy here-has
denied that Wennerstrom eve:'
spied qn behalf of the U. S. But
Wennerstrom told Swedish police
he had been so busy .getting in-
formation for both the Americans
and Russians, when he was sta-
tioned .in Moscow after World
War II, that he had-no time left
for his attache work.
To assist him out, he said, a
Russian general drafted ? his: re-
ports to Stockholm.
He-said he had given .informs-
tion about the Russians to -the
Germans in 1940, when he was as
sistant air attache in Moscow.
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