“AMERICAN SPIES”
Prague Court Sentences fN.Z. Prtss Assn.—Copyright) PRAGUE. September 24. The official Czechoslovak news agency reported last night that a group of “American Spies” had been sentenced to long prison terms by a Prague court. The agency said the leader, Ladislav Zimmermann, was given a 14-year term while his associates . received "similar” sentences. The total number of defendants and their nationalities were not disclosed in the dispatch, the Associated Press reported. The report said Zimmermann, described as a "Morally unbalanced person” with a criminal record, had been in contact with an American espionage organisation at Munich through an Austrian go-between, identified as Stefan Johaczy of Linz. It said that Zimmermann and his group "were able to gain information and other reports of an espionage nature” and turned them over for money.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29938, 27 September 1962, Page 16
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