" • ELEGR~\\ Department ofState 37 I.TMITED OE.FJCIAI, TISE Action RR RUEHCR D~ RUFHJA 29 04/!545Z BTF R 0L!515Z ZEA FM USBER t BERi..I N Info .. TO RUEHCR/SE~SY-ATE WASHDC 0 0 3 I 5 ·~· SS INFO RUFHOL/AMEMBASSY BONN STATE GRNC . "' G 1964 JUL 4 PM 12 3.1 BT SP ----. ---.,---~· L H LIMITED OFFICIAL usE ACTION DEPr,2¥'rNro BONN 23 .PARis LONDON SAL COPENHAGEN MOSCOW USAREUR CINCEU USNM~ SHAPE USELMLO UNN FROM BERLIN JUL 4, 4PM I. EUR IO PARIS ALSO FOR USRO. DAC P SUBJ: US CITIZEN DETAINED AT AUTOBAHN CHECKPOINT. US U~ CIT!ZEN, WINTH~OP JAY FREEZER (25) OF 228 MADISON AVENUE NY, . D~TAIN~D FOR THRE~ HOURS BY EAST GERMAN GUARDS AT BABELSBERG INV CHECKPOINT EVENING JUL 3. ACCORDING TO FREEZER, WHO DESCRIBED R HI .SELF AS DEPUTY ATTGEN ON STAFF OF NY SUPREME COURT, HE WAS CIA TRAVELING IN OWN CAR WITH DANISH FRIEND . THEY NSA TTE:RE PROCESSING THROUGH CHECKPOINT IN WESTERLY '. DIREDTION WHEN THEY OSD DE:CID£D TO RETUiiN TO BERLIN, APPRARENTLY. BECAUSE FREEZER DID NOT ARMY WANT 70 PAY EAST GERMAN INSURANCE FEE FOR CAR. MADE U-TURN IN NAVY g~~c~;o~~~ ~REA AND STARTED PROCESSING FOR RETURN TO BERLIN. AIR RMR I "' ..,1_.... I PAGE rwo RuFHJ A 29 I ~· -CLIM !TED OFF I CI AL USE) W~RE APPARENTLY NOT IMMEDIATELY CLEARED, PRESUMABLY BECAUSE THEY DID NOT HAVE SAME PAPERS AS TRAVELERS HAVING COME FROM MARIENBORN CHECKPOINT. HEY REENTERED CAR AND TRIED TO DRIVE THROUGH CHECKPOINT WITHOUT PASSPORTS OR CLEARANCE, BUT WERE STOPPED AND ASKED TO PULL OVER. FREEZER REFUSED, THUS BLOCKING HALF OF ONE LANE 0 AUTOBAHN AND FORCING EAST GERMANS TO REROUTE TRAFFIC. FREEZER TWICE ASKED SOV GUARDS FOR ASSISTANCE BUT WAS TOLD IT WAS EAST GERMAN MATTER. HE MANAGED TO DISPATCH MSG BY BRIT TRAVELER, REPORT­! lG DETENTION. AFTER BEING HELD ANOTHER HOUR, HE TOLD EAST GERMAN GUARDS THAT HE WOULD PROCEED WITHOUT CLEARANCE AND IN EFFECT DARED / THEM TO SHOOT. SHORTLY AFTER THIS HE WAS RELEASED. REPRODUCTION FROM THIS COPY IS _ __.L-..I M.-l-T.-E.._.D_Oloo[,.F..._.F Ilo.JICL.iI..... UNLESS ..... ....... A.__L'--Il.IJIS~E.._pROHIBITED "UNCLASSIFIED'' • LIMITED OFFICIAL USE -2-25, July 4, 4 P.M., From Berlin IN MEANTIME MISSION HAD RECEIVED MSG SENT BY FREEZER. MP OFFICER AND I NTERPRETER WERE INSTRUCTED TO INQUIRE ABOUT MATTER AT SOV CHECK?OINT. THEY ARRIVED JUST AS FREEZER WAS RELEASED AND BROUGHT 1 HIM TO MISS I ON WITHOUT TALKING TO SOVS. FREEZSR TOLD MISOFFICER ABOVE STORY AND ASKED IF HE COULD BE PU7 ON MIL ORDE RS TO DRIVE TO FEDREP JUL 4. WAS TOLD THIS COULD NOT BE DONE FOR PRIVATE CIVILIAN TOURIST, BUT WAS ADVISED TO REGISTER WITH MP STATION AT BOTH ENDS OF AUTOBAHN ON WAY our. MISSION OFFICER TOLD FREEZER HE DOUBTED THERE WOULD BE FURTHER TROUBLE WITH BORDER GU ARDS IF HE FOLLOWED INSTRUCTIONS •. • .. I ~ -------·--~... --I .. -J. ···-· I PAGE THREE RUFHJ A 29 _ . _ _______ __ ______ CLIM!TED OFF !CI AL USE) 0 1 10RNING JUL 4 FREEZER TOLD WHOLE STORY TO ASSOCIATED PRESS, WHICH CARRIED RATHER DR~~ATIC ACCOU NT OF INCIDENT. FRE~ZER THEN CALLED ~ISSION AJD REPEATED REQUEST FOR MISSION TO ~IVE HIM "PROTECTION" Y PUTT! 'G HIM AND FRIEND ON OFFICI AL ORDERS. EXPRESSED SURPRISE AT LURIDITY AP RELEASE, STATING "AP PROBABLY EXAGGERATED". MISSION AGA_r DECLINED REQUEST FOR OFFICIAL ORDERS BUT, IN RESPONSE INQUIRY, PO~ JTED our THAT HE COULD FLY our AND HAVE CAR DRIVEN _OUT BY COt· ·1ERICAL FIRM. FREEZER STATED HE WOULD DO THIS, AND HE SAID HE A·o FRIE D WOULD FLY our · NIGHT OF JUL 4. CO~ME T: LENGTH OF FREEZER DETENTION MAY HAVE BEEN CAUSE IN PART Bf HIS OWN BEHAVIOR, WH ICH APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN VERY ADAMANT. WE DO NOT A TRIBUTE ANY GENERA~ SIGNIFICANCE TO ~AST GERMAN BEHAVIOR IN THIS CASE HULICK BT LIMITED OFFICIAL USE