U.S. STUDENT'S SPY TERM COMMUNTED TASS REPORTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200600049-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: October 17, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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victed of espionage and sentence
to seven years' impris6nment bb5t
given clemency because of
confession and rePgntr>ce~ .
low sti;cpp,t and hep prove,
shipich.,' and Hare`
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S'ov'iet news agency,
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the Czeborder
Power Case Recalled
The two were completing a
tourist auto trip that had. taken
them from Finland through Len4i-
grad, Moscow and the Ukraine,
land were leaving through-Czecho-
slovakia.
Another American tourist was
the last to see them. For seven
trilbunal, for the statute would re-
quire It. This was the law under
which U-2 pilot Francis Gary
Powers was tried, convicted and
sentenced to ten years' imprison-
ent.
"Kaminski pleaded guilty," Tass
went on. "And Bennett who ap-
charges were given other *thal
that the two men ' had deliberatelo
lift their route 'and gone into a
border zone 16', gather infdrma-1
peared as a witness denounced rrogest Map!'
Kaminsky's activities as incof4- ""The Russ'fasts,: said they,'. h,ed
patible with tourism," gllthered rnatigp between
The Presidium of the Supreme Moscow and sk, the Ukraine
Soviet which reviews sentene and "other il8ees" main not
and alone has power of clemency s iecified.
;under Soviet law wiped gut Kn tlheeiiroreign 1VTinistry!
`minsky's sentence. It ordered his *day prasted ol"ally Ito ,he'
lexpulsion together with Bennett's 4merican Embassy' over use of
from the country., . tourists as spies.
Tass said clemency was granted While more than ten Americans:
in light of Kaminsky's alleged con- have been arrest6d`on spy charges
fession, his sincere attitude, and since the U-2 flight on May 1, all.
his promise not to return. It re- have been, "expelled except for
ported they were put over the two surviving airmen of the RB-
border at Uzhgorod into Czecho- 47 shot down on July 1 and
Pow- Slovakia but did not specify. when, ers himself who is now in a
No further details of the spy suburban Moscow jail.
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eiveany information
d ,appearance until
Tii ftry said both were be-
gilled for espionage.
ding to the Tass acco
unt,
"tfi
ng he collected, intelligence[
was taken from Kaminsky."
Russians said Kaminsky was
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