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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 Vassily Denissenko, 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) . 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

• Jean-Louis Jeanmaire in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.

• 1910 births
• 1992 deaths
• People from Biel/Bienne
• Swiss generals
• People convicted of spying for the Soviet Union
• Academic staff of ETH Zurich