Professor Kurt Sitte, internationally famous expert in cosmic radiation, who was sentenced here in June 1960 to a five-year prison term for contact with agents of a foreign country, was released today. President Izhak Ben-Zvi announced the commutation of his sentence last week.
Friends and former colleagues at the Israel Institute of Technology-Technion, met Dr. Sitte upon his release from jail. He issued a statement, declaring: “I am prepared to resume my scientific work in Israel. If I have to leave Israel, I should do so wishing happiness and prosperity to Israel and the Jews, whom I regard as my friends. Whatever I did, was not done with the intention of harming Israel.” Prof. Sitte is a non-Jew and a national of Czechoslovakia.
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