REDS ACCUSE AP MAN AS A SPY IN SWEDEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600430008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 17, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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Reds Accuse
AP Man as
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Izvestla published yesterday
an article by a writer identi-
fied as an Fstonlan linguist,
accusing a staff writer for The
Associated Press and a former
AP employee of conducting
espionage operations several
years ago.
The writer. Arthur Haman,
said he was a former AP em
ployee in Stockholm who has'
come z'ecently to the Soviet,
Union. He said he had been,
threatened by the U. S. Central
Intelligence Agency while he
was in the United States seek-
ing a professorship, not iden-
tified.
'Remembering many facts It
became clear to me that the
AmerieAn intelligence is busy
with intelligence activity in
Swedfii," he said. "It widely,
usejt be U. S. Embassy, the;
BV;J ioim department of the
a`:efcy Associated Press as well
as J'.her American representa-
1, le in Stockholm."
fie then mentioned Thomas
~.. Reedy, former chief of Scan
~dinavian services for the AP,*,
and Gustav Svensson, a former
AP writer who worked in Stock-
holm and later in Moscow. Mr.
Reedy is. now assigned to the
J AP's London bureau.
' Wes Gallagher, general man-
?.agcr of the Associated Press,
i,aid in New York the story by
Izvestia is completely untrue.
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