BRITISH TEACHER GIVEN 5 YEARS IN SPY CASE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000401070003-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2014
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 23, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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? FOREIGN BROADCAST
INFORMATION SERVICE
23 JULY 1965
:BRITISH TEACHER GIVEN 5 YEARS IN SPY CASE
..Moscow.TASS International Service in English 1906 GMT 23 July 1965.?.-L.
(Text) Moscow, 3 July--Gerald:Brooke,?27-year-old British subject was sentenced today':
to five years imprisonment by the Moscow city court. He is to spend the first year()
in prison, and the.other.feur in astriot regime labor colony:. The trial of.Brooke;
who was found guilty of subversive anti-Soviet activities on SOvietterritorr;:has,
ended. ! ? ? .
, REPORTAGE, COMMENT. WI BROOKE SPY TRIAL ? '
Second Day of Trial
Moscow Domestic Service in Russian 1400 GMT 23 July 1965--L
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i (Text) The trial of Gerald Brooke, a British citizen, accused of subversive. antis.'
Soviet activities ie in its second day. He carried out these activities:1Wour
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1 country on the instruction of a group of traitors to the motherland, settling !-; !
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--abroad and calling themselves the People's Labor Alliance. . . . -.(
This morning, the court heard witnesses and experts. Witness Konstantinov Was
the first to be interrogated. The People's Labor Alliance regarded him as ?
agent. But it was he who, as soon as Brooke called on him, informed the state
security services of the fact. Konstantinov confirmed that Brooke handed him.
a toilet case with a double bottom which concealed material for espionage workir..1
, and that anti-Soviet literature and instructions for the receipt and decoding of
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added radio transmissions were contained in the cover of an album. .
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H .Another witness, who from 1949 to 1954 was a member of the Peoplels.Labor
group, spoke.with anger of the'leaders of that Medley. 'They are' occupied
supplying agents for the American, British, West German and other intelligence
, services. All the witnesses exposed the unseemly activities of the group,
directed against our state. Forensic experts, radio specialista; and chemists
reported to the court thatthe material found in Brooke's possession served.a
single aim?espionage:activities.' -
It has been confirmed in court that, in case.Of failure;.Brooke was'tp-oontaot.
' members of the British embassy, who, following an agreement With'the People's
Labor Alliance, were to give him the.neoessary help:
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,The prosecutor has AO ended his speech in court.: Theeounsel TO the defensal'44
and the accused will' then be called upon' o speak. .The court:will'thekretirei
.to confer before giving the verdict.
ProsecUtion's Demand
Moscow TASS International Service in English 1309 GMT 23 July 1965-.L.
:(Text) Moscow, 23 July--The prosecution demanded ,seven yearsl,deprivation of
..freedom for confessed spy Gerald Brooke, with the first Um years in prison.
Speaking for the prosecution at Brooke's trial today, Gennad4 Terekhov, senior'
assistant to the procurator general of the USSR, declared that the defendant had .
"committed a serious crime:land the sentence should be harsh." This sentence
be a' serious warning to all foreigners who would like 'to interfere-in the internal
; Sffairs. of the Soviet Union," he said., ?
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Continued
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