UNKNOWN SUBJECT, KGB AGENT, 'ANDRE', KAUFBEUREN ((DELETION)) LEAD.
Originator: CIA
From: ACTING CHIEF, FIOB/SRS
To: DC/SECURITY RESEARCH STAFF
Document date: 06/16/1972
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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16 June 1972

MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Chief, Security Research Staff

FROM

: Acting Chief, FIOB/SRS

SUBJECT

: BROMBERGS, Arturs

AKA: LINDE, Arturs

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UNKNOWN SUBJECT, KGB Agent, "ANDRE",

Kaufbeuren (BEVISION Lead)

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1. Arturs BROMBERGS was born on 31 August 1913 at Kandeva,

Latvia. BROMBERGS was once an officer in the Riga, Latvia Police

and during the German occupation in the early 1940's, he was mobilized

into the German controlled Latvian Legion.

He fought against the Soviets

at Ostrov,: deserted, and joined the Latvian resistance movement against

the Soviets in 1943.

In 1945, he fled Latvia to Sweden and subsequently came

to the attention of this Agency in January 1951. He came, or was brought

to West Germany in early 1951, leaving his wife and daughter in Sweden,

and shortly thereafter was contracted by the Combined Soviet Operations 15-31

Base (CSOB) at Kaufbeuren for usage as a spoiter and recruiter for Agency

directed operations totrain and dispatch agents into the Soviet Union.

BROMBERGS' case officer in Munich, as of September 1951, was Edward

W. KNOWLES and during the same month, he was given a polygraph

examination by Donald D. TEDDING.

Shortly thereafter, BROMBERGS

became involved in Agency opérations emanating from KAUFBEUREN) | 5-31

directed at agent penetration of the Soviet Union, and subsequently, as

will be detailed later, engaged in similar operations originating in the

Washington, D. C. area from the Domestic Operations Base of SR.

Division.

On 5 May 1954, BROMBERGS was himself dispatched into

the Soviet Union as an agent, and as of at least July 1957, was under KGB

control in the Soviet Union.

Instant memorandum will not attempt to

examine the BROMBERGS case in any detail. The purpose of this memo-

randum is to identify certain Agency personnel, both Staff and Contract,

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who did, or probably, had contact with BROMBERGS from January

1951 to May 1954. Inasmuch as BROMBERGS was apprehended and

sentenced to twenty-five years in prison by the Soviets, it is pre-

sumed that he was interrogated in detail by KGB officials concerning

his knowledge of Agency personalities, properties, and operations.

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