Jean-Louis Jeanmaire
Jean-Louis Jeanmaire (25 March 1910 in Biel/Bienne – 29 January 1992) was a brigadier in the Swiss army who passed highly classified Swiss military secrets to the Soviet Union from 1962 up until his retirement at 65 in 1975.
Background and significant events[]
He was recruited as a spy by Colonel , the Soviet air attaché.
He never accepted money for the information he passed to the Soviets; his motivation appeared to be the result of bitterness at being passed over for promotion.
He was sentenced to a prison term of eighteen years but served only twelve due to good conduct. Jeanmaire was released from prison in 1988, and died of natural causes in 1992 in Bern.
Literature[]
- Urs Widmer: Jeanmaire: ein Stück Schweiz. Verlag der Autoren, Frankfurt am Main 1992 – ISBN 3-88661-136-1 (play)
- John le Carré: Unbearable peace. Harmondsworth 1991 – ISBN 0-14-015204-0
- Jürg Schoch: Fall Jeanmaire, Fall Schweiz. Wie Politik und Medien einen «Jahrhundertverräter» fabrizierten. «hier + jetzt», Verlag für Kultur und Geschichte, Baden 2006 – ISBN 3-03919-026-1
References[]
- Blackhall, Sue (1997) [1989]. The world's greatest blunders. London: Octopus publishing group Ltd. pp. 131–133. ISBN 1-85152-870-9.
- "Gen. Jean-Louis Jeanmaire, 81, Swiss Spy". The New York Times. January 31, 1992.
External links[]
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- Jean-Louis Jeanmaire in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
Categories:
- 1911 births
- 1992 deaths
- People from Biel/Bienne
- Swiss generals
- People convicted of spying for the Soviet Union
- ETH Zurich faculty