IMPORTANT INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE RING DISCOVERED IN GERMANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89B01354R000100040001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2008
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 16, 1975
• Content Type: CABLE

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INFO RIIFHFT/AMCONZUL FRANKFURT 7401
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SUHJECTII INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE IN FRG
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5UNMARYI FRG PRESS CAPHIED FRONT PAGE ARTICLES ON THE.
JANUARY 15 PRESS CONFEPE!VCE OF CHIEF FEUF:RAL. PROSECUTOR
SIEGFRIED EiUE+ACK., WHO ANNOUNCED T I ARREST OF NINE
PERSONS CHARr:Eo WITH IN()1!STRIAL F5PIONAGE_ AT THE
REHE.ST OF [DUOTE AN EASTERN INTELLIGLNCE SLRVICE UNQUOTE,
END SUMMARY
1, CHIEF FEDERAL PRnSEC11TOR, SIEGFRIEn FiUr3ACK, HELL)
A NEWS CONE ERE14CE ON JANUARY 1.5 TU ANNOUNCE THE ARREST
OF NTI'F PEc SONS , WHO AFL ACCUSED OF PASSING TtiM
C011PUTCR TECHNO7L0GY TO AN EASTE:I01 CDUNTUY, IN FRONT
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UNCLASSIFIED
PAGE STORIES THE'FPG PRESS EMPHASIZES FOUR POINTS$
THAT THE ACCUSED WORKED FOR AN EASTERN INTELLIGENCE
SERVICE M- PROBABLY THAT OF-THE SOVIET UNION, THAT THE
ACCUSED WERE WELL PAID FOR THOR ESPIONAGE# THAT NO
NATIONAL SECRETS WERE INVOLVi~U, AND THAT LAND AND
FEDERAL, OFFICIALS COOPERATED 1'ULLY IN THE INVESTIGATION,
2, THIF ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION FOCUSED ON TWELVE
PERSOIJS SUSPFCTED OF INDUSTRIAL ESPIt1NAGE?:, ELEVEN
PEOPLE WERE DETAINED FOR 01JESTIUNING, AND NINE ARE
CURRENTLY HEING HELD, THE FIRST ARR1STs WERE MADE ON
DECEMBER 22 TN FPANI;} I' T wNLnE
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THE TRANSFER OF SUCH IIATERIALS HAVE NUT BEEN REVEALED?
THOSE ACCUSED ARE STRONGLY SUSPECTED OF HAVING ENGAGED
IN INDUSTHTAL. ESPIONAGE SINCE THE SPRING OF 19730
4? THE PRE 5S COVERAGE PAYS PANT!CULAR ATTENTION TO
THE. HIGH RCMUNERAT-ION THE ACCuSErO ALLEGEDLY Rt CEIVED
FOR THEIR SPYING? ONE INOIVTOIIAL, HAD OH 861ROO IN HIS
PANTS PCCKCT WHEN ARPE~TFD1 ANMTHVP 11A0 Fri 7M,Mtt14 IN A
SAFE DEPOSIT f404ACK STATED THAT Al LEAST OM 272,OO0
HAD RE EN LINKED TO THE ESPIUNACE EFFORTS OF THE NINE;
Be AMONG THE. PIECI S OF EVIDENCE SEIZED IN THE HOMES
AND OFF ICE: S OF THE ACCUSED WAS A H;GHt,Y SUP14TSTICA T ED
M1NATURE: SOVIET CAf,E.I:Ae
6, THE 1411'?:E WLkE E(IPLOYE[1 IN FRANKFURT, DUESSELDORF,
STUTTGART, SOL,INGE1v, AND KRIEFELO,
7, ' FEDERAL PROSECUTOR ERWIN FISCIH?R PRAISED THE
EXTRAORDINARY DEGREE OF COOPERATION EXHIBITED UY
FEDERAL AND LAND OFFICIALS DURING TILE INVESTIGATION,
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