RUSSIAN WOMAN SPY
HANDED OVER BY AMERICANS (Rec. 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 22. Dr. Lena Herz Krupenko, who the U.S.A. Army Investigation Department states is a self-confessed Russian N.K.V.D. agfent, has been turned over to Russian Army liaison officers after nearly a year’s spying, activities in the American zone, says the Frankfurt correspondent of the Associated Press. An official statement said the Russian woman posed as a German and a doctor, whereas she is neither, _ in order to obtain an Unrra job. 'Krupenko allegedly confessed to faking identification papers for others, presumably agents, and reported the political attitude of displaced persons in American camps to her N.K.V.D. chiefs.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 267, 23 August 1946, Page 3
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