ESPIONAGE TRIAL
Admission By Colonel (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) STOCKHOLM, April 10. A Swedish Air Force :olonel, Stig Wennerstroem, yesterday admitted selling Swedish defence information to Russia while serving as air attache in Moscow from 1949 to 1952. The trial judge (Judge Ingvar Aagren) told waiting reporters this after more than four hours’ closed session. He said Wennerstroem admitted the allegation in the first charge, which dealt with his activities in Moscow. The judge’s action in reporting progress on the secret trial was believed to be unprecedented. It followed several Swedish newspaper protests at the security blackout on the hearing. Court Cleared
Reporters and the public were cleared from the court this morning about one minute after Wennerstroem, pale and drawn, was marched in to face trial. Judge Aagren said the court would continue today to deal with the first charge. The other charges against Wennerstroem are that he sold Swedish defence information to the Soviet Union while serving as air attache in Washington from 1952 to 1957, and that he continued to do so while working in defence headquarters and the Foreign Ministry in Stockholm from 1957 to 1963.
Wennerstroem faces sible life imprisonment.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19640411.2.185
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30413, 11 April 1964, Page 19
Word Count
192ESPIONAGE TRIAL Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30413, 11 April 1964, Page 19
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in