'CIA AGENT' GIVEN LIFE AS SPY IN EAST ZONE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300420008-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 11, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

'CIA-RD
AUG 1 1 1966
CPYRGHT
tions. .
Hanke, who said he was in
volved in plans to get East
Germans to the' West via.the
West German,' Czechoslovak
and Bulgarian borders. ,was
sentenced to ten -years. . ,
Baecker, 'arrested. , on `'the
Bulgarian - Turkish:;'. b OT d 6r
Sanitized - Approved For-Release : CIA-RDP75-00149R000300420008-8
Sanitized - App
Ageu' Given Life as S.....; in East Zone -
/ Reuters
EAST BERLIN, Aug. I
to_ ~sert? _a,,,self-confesZe
.a ent of,. the U.S. Central I
Ing secret equipment to the I er, 29, said they worked for
West for the CIA, bowed. hiss West Berlin escape organiza-
ad as the sentence was pro-
p unced and turned his back
o the Court.
Laudahn told the Court ves-
t relay that the CIA r crusted
h in through- roof. 'his
p rsonal problems. . '
Two other men .tried with
telligence Agency}, to _.priso
for life on charges
ahn, .36, wh
Guenter Laud
admitted trying to lure. a;
A. i. r vrc? y ? .~ v UULUIU, as a U a -v u v b y
.:IC-2i auperaoitic jet ooliEa 22s;a-nd ei'rier Baeck whilo,, trying .to~::smuggle,,, an t h e
East German sclentst and his
wife to the W,,st y car, wag,
sentenced to si.e- years.
Political observers here saidi
they believed the 5-day trial,
which was given' massive pub-.
licity in East Germany, was,
timed to coincide with the.
first''public celebrations by
the.,.' Communists Saturday oiy