EAST GERMAN PAIR ACCUSED OF SPYING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000100080001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 1, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON TIMES
1 July 1986
East German pair
accused of spying
By Peter Almond
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
LONDON - In a case more remi-
niscent of World War II than sugges-
tive of 1986 high technology, a Brit-
ish prosecutor yesterday accused an
East German couple with spying for
the Soviet bloc.
The couple, Reinhard Schultze,
35, and his 32-year-old wife, Sonja,
were accused in London's Old Bailey
criminal court yesterday of sending
and receiving secret messages to
and fron%East Germany, of possess-
ing false identity documents, maps
and other papers and illegally ob-
taining a :British passport. They
pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Schultze, according to pros-
ecutor Allan Green, came to live in
London in 1980, Sonja in 1983. Both
were using false names and both got
jobs, he as an interior decorator and
she as a translator.
"AK simply;" he said, "they came
to lid in this country as secret
agents or spies for East Germany"
In October 1984, they even went
through a marriage ceremony at
Hounslow, Middlesex, began using
the names Bryan and Ilona Strum,
and set up their household in Cran-
ford, near Heathrow Airport west of
London, even though the police say
their intention was to gather infor-
mation and send it back to East Ger-
many by radio.
"The police found a very large.
number of maps, some of them
marked, including a map showing
London airport with flight paths
marked in:' Mr. Green said.
The Schultzes were arrested in
August last year. A search of their
Cranford house, according ? to Mx
Green, revealed "spying materials"
found in an air freshener, an "escape
kit" hidden in a secret compartment
In Ma travel bag, which consisted of
false documents and money useful
in a getaway.
The two also were said to have pa-
pers containing codes. They re-
ceived large amounts of money de-
posited in bank accounts after visits
to East Germany.
Mr Green gave no in of_
how rttis Intelligence agents were
ut on t trail of the Schultzes in a
s
been made e or u tcation _y
t e sectF-aunty aut onties -
Fragments of Morse code num-
bers were found on an audio cas-
sette, Mr. Green told the jury.
Police investigating the couple's
finances found they had amassed far
more than could be accounted for by
the husband's job as a kitchen de-
signer or his wife's as a technical
translator.
Sometimes $3,000 to $4,500 would
be credited to their bank accounts
immediately upon their return from
trips abroad, he said.
Mr. Green said the couple told a
"well-rehearsed pack of lies" when
interrogated by police. Someone, he
said, had gone to a great deal of trou-
ble to provide them with documents
to support the false identities they
had given. Eventually, they admitted
their real names but insisted they
were not involved in any espionage.
The trial is expected to last for a
week.
This article is based in part on
wire service reports.
STAT
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