SPY DIDN'T WORK FOR US

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP66B00403R000100260089-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 89
• Publication Date: April 11, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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APR 11 1964 "'
Spy Didn't Work for Us,
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, April
11 (UPf-The U. S. embassy
today formally denied reports
that Swedish Col. Stig Wenner-
' stroem, confessed spy for Rus-
sia, also worked for American
intelligence.
Wennerstroem, 57, is on trial
behind closed doors in Stock-
Wennerstroem, a distinguished.
-looking air force staff officer.
who also served with the
.Swedish Embassy in Moscow,,
faces a maximum life prison
sentence if convicted of charges .
that he sold Swedish and North:{
Atlantic Treaty Oraganization
defense secrets to- the Soviet;
spied for the. Kremlin for 15, intelligence service.
years - five of them as a"" .
`holm after having confessed he
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