SPY TRIAL IN BONN
Soviet Official Charged
(N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright) BONN, February 8.
A German aviation writer, Erhard Heckmann, testified in court yesterday that Valentin Alexandrovich Tripolzev, a member of a Russian trade mission, had lavished costly presents and cash on him in return for information on the production of a vertical take-off fighter. Pripolzev, aged 43, is the first Russian citizen to be charged with espionage in West Germany, said the British United Press. His trial opened in Karlsruhe in spite of Russian demands that he be freed immediately on grounds of diplomatic immunity. West Germany replied that Pripolzev *s name did not appear on any diplomatic last.
Heckmann said that any information was to be buried under the roots of a certain tree in a forest outside Cologne. He gave the Russian certain material with the approval of West German Security . Agents. Pripolzev is said to have tried to swallow a piece of paper at the time of bis arrest.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29744, 10 February 1962, Page 16
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