Student Spies Gaoled
(N.Z P a -Wewter—Copyrtplit) MOSCOW, November 22. A hushed military court last week heard two West German students sentenced to 12 years’ deprivation of freedom for spying against the Soviet Union. The students, Peter Sonntag. aged 22, and Walter Naumann, aged 27, will spend three years in gaol and the remainder of their sentence in a forced labour camp. The two students have no right of appeal against the Court’s sentence, but they can appeal to the Supreme Soviet Presidium for clemency. The verdict, which said the two men had acknowledged their guilt, summarised the background to the men’s trip to Russia and their alleged recruitment in Heidelberg by American agents. The Court found they systematically engaged in espionage while posing as tourists in the Soviet Union by photographing and “plotting” military objects.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29681, 27 November 1961, Page 7
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