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Start of the Treason Trial of Communist Spy Heinz Sutterlin | Cologne, West Germany | November 1969
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Monday, November 10th 1969.
Soundless footage of the beginning of the trial of Heinz Sutterlin, a West German press photographer charged with treason.
Sutterlin's handler was "Runge", a KGB agent working undercover in West Germany. Sutterlin was sent to Bonn, the capital city of West Gemany and with the task of recruiting a 'mole' from within the West German Foreign Office.
In 1959, he wooed Leonore Heinz, who worked as a secretary in the Foreign Office of the West German Government in Bonn. Heinz had access to top secret documents and photographs. They married in 1960.
Some time into the marriage, Sutterlin asked Leonore to bring home some papers from the Foreign Office. She reacted with shock but was afraid of losing him and acceded to his request, which developed into a regular activity. For five years, she brought home documents at lunchtime which Sutterlin would photograph while she cooked lunch. She would return the documents and Sutterlin would pass the photographs to his handler Runge. Runge would in turn pass the photographed documents over to the Soviet Government. Many of the photographs contained top secret documents which enabled the Russians to know the advance plans of the West German government. In fact, sometimes the Soviets got to know of the contents before the politician members of the West German goverment.
In 1967, Runge decided to defect to the Americans, and he handed is list of agents to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).Sutterlin and Lenore were subsequently arrested and charged with espionage. Lenore reacted with shock at the deception practised on her and overwhelmed with shame and fear, she hanged herself in her prison cell before she was brought to trial.
The prosecution alleged that Sutterlin had sent 50 German state secrets, about 1000 secret papers and 1880 confidential documents from the German foreign office to the USSR.
Sutterlin was found guilty and on November 28th 1969, was sentenced to seven years in prison.
Source of Film Footage: Reuters News Archive.
See:
"Leonore Heinz, Unwitting Spy"
Soundless footage of the beginning of the trial of Heinz Sutterlin, a West German press photographer charged with treason.
Sutterlin's handler was "Runge", a KGB agent working undercover in West Germany. Sutterlin was sent to Bonn, the capital city of West Gemany and with the task of recruiting a 'mole' from within the West German Foreign Office.
In 1959, he wooed Leonore Heinz, who worked as a secretary in the Foreign Office of the West German Government in Bonn. Heinz had access to top secret documents and photographs. They married in 1960.
Some time into the marriage, Sutterlin asked Leonore to bring home some papers from the Foreign Office. She reacted with shock but was afraid of losing him and acceded to his request, which developed into a regular activity. For five years, she brought home documents at lunchtime which Sutterlin would photograph while she cooked lunch. She would return the documents and Sutterlin would pass the photographs to his handler Runge. Runge would in turn pass the photographed documents over to the Soviet Government. Many of the photographs contained top secret documents which enabled the Russians to know the advance plans of the West German government. In fact, sometimes the Soviets got to know of the contents before the politician members of the West German goverment.
In 1967, Runge decided to defect to the Americans, and he handed is list of agents to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).Sutterlin and Lenore were subsequently arrested and charged with espionage. Lenore reacted with shock at the deception practised on her and overwhelmed with shame and fear, she hanged herself in her prison cell before she was brought to trial.
The prosecution alleged that Sutterlin had sent 50 German state secrets, about 1000 secret papers and 1880 confidential documents from the German foreign office to the USSR.
Sutterlin was found guilty and on November 28th 1969, was sentenced to seven years in prison.
Source of Film Footage: Reuters News Archive.
See:
"Leonore Heinz, Unwitting Spy"
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