REDS TRY U.S. TOURIST AS SPY; LEIPZIG FAIR OFFICIAL DEFECTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200600051-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 51
• Content Type: NSPR

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By The Associated, P
LONDON, Oct. .16
last week was first
years in jail, Rai cr Moscow',
said today. The broadpas said
the sentence was co use
to expulsion because his
The American is Mark I
Kaminsky, twenty-six, of Jef-
ferson Township, Mich. He and
Harvey C. Bennett, twenty-six
J of Tracy, Calif., entered Rus-
sia as tourists July 27 and
dropped out of sight in mid-
August. The State Department
at Washington said Friday they
Soviet Union.
Sports Leader,
TV Executives
ans oa irri ange erg
high official of Communist
ast Germany's Leipzig Fair
as defected to Frankfurt wit
is wift, police said today.
His flight highlighted the in
ans-officials and just plaid
ugh asylum In the West.
Police quoted Mr. Spangen
is attempts to turn the fai~
alves of Germany" failed
ey declined to say how, whe
where he left. ,
The Hamburg newspape
pangenberg as saying, "Th~
ent to West German firms (t~
The two were said to have nstallations in the weste
been ousted at the Soviet
krain, and elsewhere.
,
Czechoslovak border town of Today's broadcast said flit s
Uzhgorod. The American Em-? nd notebooks were taken fro
bassies at Vienna, and Prague fr. Kaminsky and he wasp it
were alerted to aid ,the men, n trial for espionage and r
but spokesmen at the embas- article 2 of the law on crimin 1
sies said the Arn riCans had iahilit, for state crimes.
made no contact wlhi them. "Dung the ,,preliminary i -
American officialsp in Vienna estiga ion and at the tri ,
speculated the two.,;ni ht drive alni pIsade guilty, a
through CzechoslevaPa and et:
`yhp appeared as a
;xie
into West Germany. vitnese, denounced Kamins'k s
tt Kaminsky and ' r. Ben- ctivities and declared th
nettr were tbtitring iussia by vere incompatible with tou -
car and were en route from ism," the broadcast said.
charges.
Mosco
ug. X25 on spy
charged they de-
ely'from their route,
at Mr, Kaminsky col-
intelligence information
Herald Tribune-UPI
Mark' Y. Kam1niky, on
oft two Americans expelle
iet Foreign Ministry had se t
communication to the A r -
an' Embassy demandirigi t
'immediate' measures be tak
o discontinue the use of t -
sm for intelligence pgrpo
political propaganda for Eas
ermany."
Leading West German busi
t the fair.
pangenberg at one time served
wo years as a trade specialisJl
Sport Leader Flees
Last Monday, Werner Scharch
resident, of EasC Germany'
rganizer of the 1960 worl
icycling championships i
Last Wednesday, two Eas
erman television executive.
ed to West Berlin. They wer
ringing rhythms }nto then
041 1 + o W stkii thinking
!~tiv2sthey left bead.
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