SENATORS GIVEN SPY'S TESTIMONY EXCERPTS OF WENNERSTROM DATA ISSUED BY SUBGROUP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP66B00403R000200010006-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2005
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 30, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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SENATORS ? GIVEN
SPY'S TESTIMONY
#x6erpts of Wennerstrom
Data Issued by subgroup
Speclal to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 -
The ease with ' which an. em-
bassy attache was able to ferret
out United States security data
for transmission to the Soviet
Union was disclosed today' by
Senate investigators.
The Senate Subcommittee on
Internal Security made public
translated excerpts from testi-
mony taken in Sweden front Col.
Stig Wennerstrom, former
Swedish aid attache in Washing-
ton, who was sentenced to. life
imprisonment June 12. for
"gross espionage'." on behalf of
the Soviet Union. '
Voluminous excerpts and
paraphrased versions of ' his
testimony, _ taken during a long
pretrial interrogation ? on 15
years of espionage in Sweden,
the soviet Union and . the
United States were made avail-
in Swedish last spring and
able
Were widely published.
166?-page partial tran-
The
put out by the Senate
script
sub-committee "for the infor~
ma on of, covered.
ti i Senators" Wennerstrom s service as air at-
tache in Washington from April
to May, 19b7.
1952,
Wennerstrom said the system
Associated Press ,
METHODS DISCUSSED:
Stig, Wennerstrom, the con
victed Swedish spy. Trans,.
lations of his testimony, at'~
,by. Senate ? Investigiltors,:
tells, drawings or diagrams. The
iiurpose was .'to , obtain new
ideas and.. Improve conventional
designs in the,. Soviet ' Union to
save time in development.....,
It was easy, the colonel noted;'
to arrange visits to mill tary ins;
stallations or. industrial ':plants
that worked for him was to producing military.rnii?t~rlals l s,
shots."
"If it is desired to have closer
contacts in the United States,".
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necessary, in most cases, to in-
eclude the women. Women have
grouch greater influence over the
en than we realize.".
?. The colonel said his printlipal
ob was to send to the Soviet
,Uniondescriptions of equipment
got nlndern design, . wlt _ all` de=