CIA AGENT TOFTE EXPECTED TO UNBURDEN SELF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400390025-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2003
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: August 7, 1966
• Content Type: DISP

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CIA AGENT TOFTE EXPECTED TO OUNBURDEN' :SELp
Moscow IZVESTIYA 7 August 1966--A
(G. Deynishenko dispatch from Stockholm: "Agents or Burglars?")
(Text) The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has become involved in a regular.-
scandal. The U.S. espionage headquarters has been exposed in rather ignoble
activities which come under the category of, pure crime. ~~
According to reports from Copenhagen, CIA agents penetrated into the house of
59-year-old Dane Hans Tofte and stole a secret document, while at the same time taking
valuables worth 100,000 Kroner.
Hans Tofte, of course, was not by accident an object of energetic action on the part
S. intelligence
ate with the U
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oper
of the CIA. As early as World War II he began to c
service. At first Tofte worked in Europe, then he was switched to Korea. He '.~
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e
performed his last "operation" in Guatemala during the days of preparations for t
somethin like a diary in which Tofte, who is now already an ex-agent, described his
tures much oo y.
ven
Judging by everything. Tofte's notes promised a considerable unmasking of the activities
bj
of his former agent-triends,' Tofte will begin to unburden himself and that this will
no small thing.
Approved For Release 2003/12/02 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000400390025-5 .