GERMAN MECHANIC IS CONVICTED OF ESPIONAGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000201980002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 21, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 30, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APPEARED WASHINGTON POST
ON PAGE2 30 June 1984
German 'Mechanic Is Convicted of Espionage
TAMPA, June 29 (AP)-West in prison. The lesser charge of buy-
German auto mechanic Ernst Lud- ing the documents is punishable by
wig Forbrich was found guilty today as many as 10 years in prison. Sen-
on two espionage charges involving tencing was set for July 27.
an attempt to buy U.S.'military se- Prosecutors alleged that Forbrich,
crets from an undercover agent to 44, tried to buy U.S. defense secrets
deliver to East Germany. to pass to East German intelligence
The charge of trying to deliver se- and made a $550 down payment
cret documents to foreign countries March 19 to an undercover agent
carries a maximum sentence of life posing as a U.S. Army officer.
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