MOSCOW EXPELS BONN AIDE ACCUSED OF OPUS DEI LINK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000400640002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: January 4, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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JAN . 4 1966
1Moscow Expels Bonn Aide.:
I Accused of Opus. Dei Link
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MOSCOW. Jan. 3 (Reuters)?
'The Soviet Union expelled today
the West German Embassy's
!First Secretary, three months
? !after he was accused of spread--
ing. anti-Soviet propaganda and
collecting information .for the
'Roman Catholic organizatien
'Opus Dei.
! A spokesman for the West
iGerman Embassy said the dip-
[lomat, Dr. Alois Hertes. 41 years
lold, had been given four days
Ito leave Moscow,. The charges
iwere denied.
Dr.. Herte5 has denied that h,
iis or ever has been a member
lor supporter of Opus Dei, a sec-
ular semi-secret Roman Catho-
yd orgaiiiafio?n? To-undia?in
S-P-aIii- Ili -19787 [5 T3rornote the
a-.-plilirrtlynr?rft?Christian ideals
..to everyday life.
; - The West German spokesman
said the Russian move appeared
.:to have been in retaliation for
'..the, expulsion of a Soviet diplo-
mat, YakoV Barzukov, from
Nest Germany last month..
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/19: CIA-RDP73-00475R000400640002-2