ALLEGED SPYING FOR U.S.
Russia Sentences Two Men
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) MOSCOW, June 13. The Communist newspaper “Pravda” today announced that the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union had tried two “American spies and diversionists” and had sentenced them to 25 years’ imprisonment in corrective labour camps.
The announcement named the two men as Vladimir Konstantinovich Galai and Yuri Alexandrovich Kharamtzov and said they were trained by American intelligence agents in Western Germany. The precise nationality of the two men was not given, but their names indicated Russian or Ukrainian origin. The “Pravda” report said the two men were flown in Norwegian aircraft to the Norwegian-Soviet border and smuggled into the Murmansk region “with the help of the Norwegian border authorities.” At their trials, Galai and Kharamtzov testified that an American intelligence school, in which they were trained, was located in a small place called Rottah, in West Germany. Instructors at the school were members of American Intelligence under assumed names.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27376, 15 June 1954, Page 8
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