1. GLOBKE TOLD <SANITIZED> 5 OCT:

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06766013
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: May 14, 2021
• Case Number: F-2015-02367
• Publication Date: October 5, 1960

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1.ICLOR�KE TOLD
5 OCTs
CLOBKE THINKS HERTEN ATTACK IN PRESS COMMUNIST INSPIRED BECAUSE
OF HEINEMANN AND POSSER BACKGROUND. THOUGH HE CONCEDES A SHRED OF
TRUTH TO CHARGES AGAINST HIM, GLOBKE HAS WRITTEN DENIAL TO
"HAMBURGER ECHO� WHICH THEY PUBLISHED*. GLOBKE AND ADVISERS UNDECIDED
WHETHER TO SUE HERTEN. PROBABLY WON'T BECAUSE EVEN IF SUCCESSFUL4'
INHERENT pumicirr WOULD BE COUNTERPRODUCTIVE; WHILE TaRE IS
AN ORDER FOR HERTEN'S ARREST of 74.100X$, AUTHORITIES INHIBITED
BY'DOUBLE..JEOPARDY ANGLE.P HERTEN. WAS AFTER ALL TRIED AND CONVICTED
OR VERY SPECIFIC BILL OF INDICTMENT AND. GERMANS HAVE SO FAR NOT
LNCOVERED ANY CHARGE NOT RAISED IN CREEK TRIAL. ALSO FILES AND
MATERIAL STILL IN GREECE. 'ENTIRE-CASE VAS DISCUSSED BY.CERMAN AND
GREEK GOVERNMENTS WREN XARAMANLIS VISITED FEDREP, kurtuad
IMPLICATIONS OF EVDOXOULAMERTEN RELATION WAS THEN CONSIDERED,. .
FEDREP. OFFICIAL BEST INFORMED WHOLE CASE IS RAAB OF Tonto OFFICE.
LEGAL SECTION.
2, ONA OCT TALKED TO DR..: .iSTERCKEN, WESTERN EUROPE
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DESK CHIEF IN FEDREP PRESS OFFICE AT A DINNER PARTY. STERCKEND
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SAID THAT HE KNEW HERTEN PERSONALLY AND THAT FEDREP qag HAD. KNOWN
OF CASE F9R-LONG TIME, STERCXEN SAID THAT HE HAD PERSONALLY SEEN
PHOTOGRAPH DEPICTING XARAMANLIS RTEN AND EVDOXOULA AND SAID
HERTEN HAD SEVERAL OTHER SIMILAR PHOTOGRAPHS. ALSO STATED THAT
HERTEN HAD LETTERS TO AND FROM KARAMANLIS VHICH DID IN STERCKEN'S
OPINION NOT INCRIMINATE XARAMANLIS SINCE DID NOT INDICATE KARAMANLIS
DIRECTLY .BENEFITED MATERIALLY THROUGH THE GERMANS,
3, SINCE STERCXEN CLEARLY SYMPATHETIC GREEK GOVT SIDE, SUGGEST
APPROACH HIM AFTER ME HAS FINISHED IN HAMBURG.. EXPECT BY
PEN
VIU GET riuq MORE DETAIL 'FROM HIM OR .7RAIiii':THA.T1
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REPORTED A.00T HE LEARNED FROM BONN.SPIEGEL OFFICE
THAT MERTEN STICKING TO HIS STORY, THEY SAID MERTEN HAD SOME TIME
AGO OFFERED STORY TO 'DIE VELT* WHICH REJECTED PUBLICATION .
477:4 'CHECKING WITH FOREIGN OFFICE, MERTEN.THEN VENT: TO !HAMBURGER
WWI* .MERTEN.APPARENTLY. FEELS GREEK.AND.GERMAN GOVTS'IN CAHOOTS
AND OBSTRUCTING HIS EFFORTS CLEAR. HIMSELF IN TRIALS IN GREECE AND
GERMAMii SPIEGEL STAFFERS ADDED MERTEN-ACCOUNT ON GLOM:FACTUAL.
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