Spy Reports Belittled

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31981, 7 May 1969, Page 22

Spy Reports Belittled

(N.Z. Press Asm — Copyright). ’* BONN, May sj.> Reports of a spy network involving agents-? in the United States swepj>t through West Germany todays® Government authorities admitted that some arrests hafl-r,' been made, but said the situ.fi ation had been grossly exag- I garated. The Hamburg newspaper, $£ “Welt Am Sonntag,” identi- 1 fled a Soviet intelligence officer who defected to the West last month as “Rupert Sigi, aged 44, who has betrayed 250 Soviet K.G.B. officers, agents, sub-agents and cover ' addresses in the West and East.”

The newspaper added that Sigi “delivered a trunkful of notebooks and secret docu- ’ meats,” which led to the arrest of 25 persons, some of them in the United States, A spokesman for the West German Prosecutor’s Office In Karlsruhe said that a Soviet 4 K.G.B. officer named Rupert ' " Sigi had defected to American intelligence agents In '1 West Berlin in mid-April, but his disclosures had led to - lest than 10 investigations of possible Soviet agents, and fewer than that number bad been arrested.

Heekty Win.—The Montreal J Canadlens won this year’s Nat- , tonal Hockey League Stanley • Cup for the second successive year by beating St Louis Blues, 2-1. tn St Louis.