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PLANE PLOT TOLD BY 'CIA AGENT'

Document Type: 
CREST [1]
Collection: 
General CIA Records [2]
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 
CIA-RDP75-00149R000400460018-2
Release Decision: 
RIPPUB
Original Classification: 
K
Document Page Count: 
1
Document Creation Date: 
November 11, 2016
Document Release Date: 
March 8, 1999
Sequence Number: 
18
Case Number: 
Publication Date: 
August 6, 1965
Content Type: 
NSPR
File: 
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NEW YO t: DAILY NEWS Sanitized - Approved For F Jgasg jW- APTI ' CPYRGHT 'agent of the U.S. Central Intel- .ligence Agency told Communist l high court judges here today ofi plans to lure an East German)' pilot into flying a Russian plane' containing secret equipment toy Guenter Laudahn, 36, an East: Berliner who escaped to the West^ in 1962, said he was sent to East Berlin three months ago to con-~1 tact the brother of an East Ger. ;. man fighter ilot p . "I told him that- the more( equipment'the MIG21 jet fighter) contained, the higher the priced would be,": Laudahn told the; court. Laudahn, an electrical engineer, 'Hansjuergen Hanke, 22, a waiter, and Werner Baecker, 29, a lathe' Operator,- went on trial today ac-; cused': Of acting as Western ; agents..', Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA=RDP75-00149R000400460018-2
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