WIFE OF ARRESTED BRITON TALKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100510027-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 1998
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: April 30, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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.THEY QUESTIONED' MEAL NIGHT
SAYS TEARFUL MRS. BROOKE
From IAN BRODIE: Moscow, Thursday
N tears tonight: a young wife from London
told how she" was.ques`tioned all night by
Soviet.police after her husband was whisked
Barbara Brooke, 24 and pretty, is, going home.
tomorrow. Her husband; 26-year-old lecturer Gerald
Brooke, is still held somevvhere in Moscow, 'perhaps
A CALL
young couple - apparently in
response to a mysterious tele-
phone invitation-went to visit
a Russian husband and wife in
Moscow.
Gerald Brooke speaks fluent '
Russian. Barbara Brooke under-
stands little-and so tonight she
still scarcely knew what had
happened.
At the Moscow home of Miss
Agnes Wood, the newly" arrived
British Consul, Mrs. Brooke
wept . as she tried to explain
how three . Russians burst into
the home they were visiting.
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....... all, Lie tiuiu. -
1ney LOOK,11
me away to another building-.
I don't know where-and there
they questioned me. They kept.
questioning me all night."
va
B
rs.
r o o k e, spectacled.
wearing red skirt and beige
7.30 next morning. They just
let me go.
" I would rather not say what
questions they asked.. They did
not use any force.
" I don't know the Russian
people in the fiat. I have no
'idea If they were arrested."
kn w " saidliMrs. Brooke. dShe
broke down
Miss Wood hel
ed
.
p
her from tho room.
Some of the gaps in the story']
were filled In by one of Mr.'
Brooke's' touring party, 40-year-
~?'old Mr. Paul Harvey, a teacher
from Woodford Green.. Essex,
who first raised the alarm.
Apparently Welcomed" the Brookes were'
hosppitablyy eat yhe
flat Lheyvisited.
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t 15 minutes the three
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