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CIA Reading Room cia-rdp75-00149r000400360005-7: WEST BERLIN JAILS RED DOUBLE SPY
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ST. LOUIS (MO-) LOIIfipproved For ReleasepVfhA5R175- t;rr M. 3311tSL3 ;, 373,939 F,o,,, t m,s f i West Berlin Jails Red Double . Spy Served Both American and Soviet Rings By OMER ANDER$&'lL North American NoWsPaW Alliance .J_ spy," Gerhard Wegner, 38, has been imprisoned fot:.the betrpyal of United States and German in- telligence secrete to the Soviets while serving as a Western agent. United States intellfgenCti Offi- cials describe We nor u the Same type of double agent NI- kita Khrushchev, while In the United States, boasted had turned over United States code books to the Russians, who then used them to feed false Informa- tion to American intelligence. i Wegner was tried by the Welt German Federal Court at Karls- ruhe, which handles espionage cases affecting the United States an(] West (,en man mili'ary forces. TOP RAND The trial brought out th;rt t,,,. Wegner is it top Communist spy uho was assigned in 1953 to in- filtrate the intelligence organha- Lion of Gen. Reinhard Gehlen. r The so-called -Gehlen Orguniza- tion" at that time was financed and controlled by the United.` States Central Ietelllgenca Agency. Wegner was accepted as a I Gehlen agent, and ever since 1953 had been feeding United States and Wag German spy se. -United States UtdUgeace tarot-I 'dtia state that 44ralr maenle st t grad Array defector anxious to "serve the cause of freedom." He was accepted by the CIA and became.' !_key agent ThWe+- -the CPYRGHT
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