REDS SAY DEFECTOR WAS EAST GERMAN 'CRIMINAL'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700110033-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: October 25, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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The State Department de- .returned; to East Germany
vied yesterday that Lt. Col. last March.
Yevgeny Y. Runge was any.
[In ? Bonn, a news bulletin
thing other than what it of the West German Interior
said he was-a former offi- Ministry, published Tuesday,'
cer of the KGB, the Soviet said that more than 100 sen-
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to the United States. for, Communist secret serv
The denial was promPted1? ? ice officials have gone over
by a story carried by ADN, to the West in the past ten,;
scale ? anti-Soviet provoca- of joining the CIA. has been.
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tion
setup by the CIA. sentenced to eight years' im-
The . real villain, ADN,:' prisonment for espionage
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' said, was' an 'unscrupulous the Czechoslovak ' Interior
criminal called Eugenie Ministry announced in
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Runge
who, fled .to W e s t''. Prague. He was identified as
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