U.S. HAD SPY RING IN SWEDEN, RED WRITER CHARGES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600430005-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Content Type: NSPR

Sanitized - Ap oved For Release :
U.S. HAD SPY RIING:/
YRGHT
IN SWEDEN, ICEDHe was put up by thCIai
the Presidential Gardens Hotel
~VRITER in Alexandria, Va., wad for the next CHARGES
two weeks daily talks
ih
wt agents
and Brown.
CarIqWst.
C tdah `~ u e' men dah`+r.tr t k rlm.+ Nowr s.r.ko The mtried lb persuade
him become an agitnt for
MUSCOW, government newspaper Izvesda Uni States intelligence in
says that the United States main- Swad '"; he said. He -refused to?
tamed an important intelligence l. acc~',the offer and returned
American newspaper men an said, ; evinced that the CIA
H'oted ' , t let him alone, he re-
Soviet emigres.A Soviet citizen who had live turned. the Soviet union..
in Sweden as an emigre charge( S V AP Say` ? 1
in a signed article yesterday tha In N York, Wes Gallagher,:
he had been approached twit p,eneral , manager of the Assn-'
by members of the Central In c,ated :Pecs, said the story in
teliigence Agency who tried t Izvestia!was untrue and that;
recruit him into the America }laman's??account seemed to be.
spy ring. the product 'of an overripe!
He said a former bureau chi imagination fed by an addiction'
of the Associated Press in Stbc! to detective thrillers.
holm, Thomas Reedy, had act "Neither the Associated Press
as an American intelllgen nor its employes have any con-
agent there. Another Asso tat necdost with any department of
Press correspondent, Gast the United States Government,"
Swenson, had been world he said,
under Reedy and later went n "As far as can be ascertained,'
the Soviet Union to work as Arthur Haman worked briefly'
agent here, the article charge . as a teleprinter operator for
(Swenseon, a citizen of Swecl~ t e Associated Press in 1957.
was a member of the P Thomas Reedy at the time was
bureau in Moscow from the . chief of. bureau, concerned solely
ginning of 1959 to October ?f with the gathering of news inj
that yeat when Soviet authoriti ' Scandinavia. He has not been
refused to extend his visa. Pri r in Stockholm since March 1930.
to his Moscow assignment ha h d Gus Svensson, who was a
been a member of the AP St It. Swedish employe of the Asso-
holm bureau for . bout 19 yea s. ciated Press, left in October of.
1960 to tak? up other employ-
He in no longer , the AP) ?t ?
The article it1 vestia is :
signed by Ar t ylaenan, e- Poland Ousting Two
scribed as aT ' Estonian-b n. U.S. Military Attaches
scholar of 1ingV Alcs. . WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (AP),.
He said he bljtl left the S at -The Department of State con-
tic republic, might years , firmed. 'today that Communist
o live in Sef[ art because a Poland has asked that two mill-;
.found it di!VV,tlt to adjust to . tary attaches of the United
State embassy in Warsaw be
Soviet rule:
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p
ocschoim he as
an American in- ever Polish charges that the
but that he r- two had engaged In any im- .
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i ny dealings lth propea'Setivitt.
~!tendtnr, the I ter- far 18 moo .
~ ?( i,ineui ti s There was no official announce-
meat of the charges against
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tnac u nc, RA , ,.o, ... .. -
arch Job in r, in- militar yattache. Their removal
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