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Document Type:

CREST [1]

Collection:

General CIA Records [2]

Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):

CIA-RDP75-00001R000300170020-5

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RIPPUB

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Document Creation Date:

November 11, 2016

Document Release Date:

November 2, 1998

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Publication Date:

November 25, 1954

Content Type:

NSPR

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Nil .~ ~ ~ 1 Sanitized -Approved For Release : -RDP75- CPYRGHT PHILADELPHIA BULLETIN Circ.: e. 702,773 S. 687,222 front Edit Othet Paga Page Page ' CPYRG~T __ Dat?e~ ~~~ ~% ~ a ense officials in Washinet~ i``a>z5hecl Aff~r Seoul Visit 'Tokyo, Nov. 25-(UP civilian employes of the U. Army in Japan, but,.F.E~~,~~j, lG 1 ` adio Peiping charged the.tw men were agents of America' super-secret counter-~~}igence agency. -Downey received _a .life sentence and Fecteau was senten~- ed to 20 gears. The two passengez?s were ide i- fied by the Tokyo spokesma as Civilian Employes ed today that two of the 13 Amer- icans imprisoned as "spies" by Red China disappeared the night Pres- ident Eisenhower landed in Seoul cn his post-election "end the war" mission. The spokesman said the two' menu hitched a -ride on a trans port plane that disappeared mys- teriously December 2, 1952, be= twee$ Seoul and Tokyo. Their plane never. was heard from after it crossed tfie Korean -east coast, the spokesman said. Communist China claimed, howl FOIAb3b Sanitized -Approved For Release :CIA-RDP75-000018000300170020-5