Sweden Pays Spy Caught in Estonia
A Swedish-trained spy who was caught in his native Estonia in 1950 and sent to Siberia finally has won recognition and a $65,000 payment from the Swedish government, a spokeswoman said Friday.
Evald Hallisk, 67, was trained in 1949 by the Swedish intelligence service and spirited across the Baltic Sea to work as an undercover agent and resistance organizer, but Soviet counterintelligence blew his cover immediately.
Hallisk was arrested, spent 15 years in a Siberian prison camp, then returned to Estonia to a life of poverty and harassment by the KGB.
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