IRANIAN SPY TERROR REPORTED IN GERMANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000402040001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 6, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/19: CIA-RDP73-00475R000402040001-7 ?
MAR 6. 1966
The RepubliC On The Rhine'
L'arii(131
Bonn.
' IRANIAN STUDENTS and techni-
cians who work or study at West
German institutes and universi-
ties claim they are being watched
nd terrorized by SAVAK?the Ir-
anian secret service agency., ?
Last summer an Iranian
student disappeared from Cologne
under mysterious circumstances.
Not long afterward his half-
' harred body was ?foUnd near
'Brussels. He had been done in ,by
SAVAK his, associates alleged..
Last December 3 two-more-Ira-
nian 'students in Bonn'-and- .Co-
fogne vanished.. West- German
newspapers and political figures
immediately raised a hue ? and
cry, blaming the Shah's agents
again.. ,.
. .
__The students' complaints that
officials have a tacit working
.
agreement ? prompted calls for a
Bundestag investigation and some
rather rhetorical questions such
as: "What are spies doing around
here, anyway?" and "Why doesn't
somebody make them register?"
. As Kali Guenther von Hase, the
'Covernment press secretary,
pointed out a few weeks ago, "as
a rule," there is no legal authori-
ty for. such cloak-and-dagger or,
ganizations in .the Federal Repub-
lic., .
. Knowledge Denied, ?
error _in.e-1;3oirect
? By sTuART S. SMITH '
(Bonn Bureau o/ The Sun]
rings here, he said, "but as you
know, there are foreign agents all \
over the place."
There are, indeed, .according to
Hassan IVIassali,-Ahe publisher of
INF Information, 'a bulletin of the
anti-Shah European' Organization
of the Iranian National 'Front.
In one issue, .the bulletin listed
the Cologne address and* tele-
phone number of SAVAK's al-
leged central bureau 'for Europe
and the name of the office direc-
tor. ? ?
Massali then asite, foe police
protection, saying he feared for
his life. .
Inquiry Denianded ?
The Social Democratic party's
news service recently 'demanded
a full parliamentary airing of the
matter, charging: ? "The Iranian
SAVAK and West German polIceisecret service SAVAK, -which has
its headquarters in Cologne. is ob-
n ure ermany
Shah's life while he is traveling in
Vestern Europe :on his frequent
vacation trips. .
As, a result, the Iranian' agents
feel constrained to confer with the
West German. authorities to prev-
ent any serious trouble. ,
? Some of the steam went out of
the .editorials calling for an inqui-
ry when two missing students
turned up in East Berlin 'behind
bars.. , . ?
. . ..
According to ADN,. the .Soviet
Zone's news agency, the pair had
attempted to smuggle people out
of East Germany, with falsified
passports.'; ? .. ? .,.
Control Difficult ..1 '.
. .
. ?
But while.SAVAK could not.1?e
blamed .for that; the newspapers
said the 'investigation should., still
be held to see what SAVAK?really
is up to.: ' ?,. ; .? , , .... , .
.
The vt'OrK 'of foreign' secret .ser4
Von Hase said he did not know
'anything 'about the activities of
SAVAK or the Spanish secret ser-
vice, which is also said to be ac-
tive here.
'However, he told reporters, that
does not preclude the possibility
there are some kinds of clandes-
tine activity afoot.
Apart from the intelligence ap-
paratuses belonging to the three
Western allied powers, no outsi-
ders are permitted to operate,spy YAK hears .of a plot against the'
? I
viously entrusted' with the. job of
watchingss, over. the ? - Iranian.
students." ,
It is uncertain, the party noted,
whether or not SAVAK ? and ?the'
West German authorities ccoper-.,
ate. Allegedly ,a 'secret agreement
exists between the two nations'
lice organizations, and' the cir-
cumstantial evidence is .proVoca
tive. ? . ?
The Iranian students insist their
mail is opened' and read or even
disappears altogether. .?
As the West German police are
hardly experts In the Persian Ian-,
guage, who gets the mail and'
reads it, the Social. Democrats in-'
quired.
?
: Some' Called Foes , ?
Spokesmen' for the Iranian
Government report that some of.
the students are Communists' and
members of the ?Tudeh party and
bitterly opPose the Shah's policies;?
On occasion, it was 'added, SA-,
vice agents here is hard to con-
(ml. There is no law 'against their:
operation as long as they do not"
spy against the West "German
Government. ? ?
During the Algerian crisis, fort
example, the French "Red Hand"i
agency hounded Frenchmen Fuld;
Algerians who had fled to thel
Federal Republic and ?what Theyt
thought would be safety.
Hermann Schmitt - ? Vockend
hausen, a Social Democrat and
chairman of the Bundestag's In-I
tenor Committee, has asked Paul!
Luecke, the Federal Interior?
nister, to make a report to Parli-i
ament. ? .
? The. Government, most comll
mentators agreed, should proposei
ways' of curbing some of ?these or-i
ganizations before there are .any.,
more unpleasant and ? embarrass-
log incidents. s? .
Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/19: CIA-RDP73-00475R000402040001-7