GERMANY: SPIES ON SPIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300060007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Content Type: NSPR

Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00149R000300060007-9
BEST COPY
AVAILABLE
Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00149R000300060007-9
.FOLS1313ttized - App-uvud F-ur Rutedbv elAADP75' 00 9R00030006 i 07.-119
etqlt, n an,o?ninen o ciais found
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
ly leaked classified military infox,-, n
on to Der Spiegel. ,
Gerninr-f11rn-7YeIation evok
memories of the Hitler era, whe-
intelligence ageneles' 'fought for,
er with murder, blackmail, and ter-
One of tile-1 officials jailed in the
laffilor of 'Der-S7piegel _ was Col. Adolf
-nominally 4JIMilier of resigned 010e
Defense Minister
staff, and also_
was accused'
its bitter edi
most Ger
acted ,On
portedIypolicy i_
es tapped and their move-
dosed. Defense Ministry
Gerd Schmueckle
iii-Bonn's Hotel
agent planted
tory had re-
07 A journalist
ioksin hamburg. "I'm
1.0.'This Strauss story has
'I feel like taking a rest."
line-tapper cut in: "You
do that:" a said. "Nothing more is
going to n for a while.
Musa
nevitably, the hue and
thy over eminent spying is going to
be followed by demands for more infor-
mation on Reinhard Gehlen's mysterious
operogons. But the chances are scarcely
beffer'than 50-50 that much more will
be :learned about 'Goble') than is known
already-and that, js skimpy enough.
Geh1enL114 been photographed
since 1a44,_ he leaves his Munich
compo co- nite and accompa-
nied bytk and
false paga e hovels on a
by the German
Foreign
Iles have never
e ifta, but he can
nctiena:-In Tanilary
read an intelligener.f,
RiIan,strength in
-.frifaTi-e-, said Hit-
n who had
e commit-
in. The man was
te 'Pfrini iotedc
$focts. They
ey..ser nim up
,00-61
ziosef Strauss'g'; OM,"
n ,agent. Wicht gbf mc
er Spiegel in A .syna'
on Strauss, and
-wit iced Wiebt
_
Gehlen re-
auss's military
t Germany con-
4 on Spies
In t Ic quiet
loch is a
rounded by a
Ind patrolled arm" i e do led
guards with wafide-talkies.4 an
police dogs: Inside is the me thd
headquarters of the least known nd c
most elusive official of the West Ger an
Government: Gen. Reinhard Gel
chief of the Riindesnachrichtendi n,
(Federal Intelligence Service), the op-?,
secret intelligence service respon. ble
only to Chancellor Konrad Adena icr. S
Mystery man Gehlen became deplyI
involved in the six-week-old political; :1
scandal touched:, off when Federal, ow;
thorities raided tlrg newsmagazine bet-
Spiegel, jailed its top editors on cha gei' -
of treason,. and ',plunged the poultry
into governmental chaos., West Cer-,, v
inany's press and politicians _set? ud, a p
vociferous clamor when it was disclosed
that one of Gehlen's agents had &lib-
Sanitized - Approve
.N.qfli.
cad of
a ? capacity,; L4
disclosure that &hien s organi-
Varilifratvith _the Defense
rYs OVG Military 'Intelligence
vviee followed loud outcries against
StlInIMMIttatfthighharidedness, partic-
atlyfisfUis,Ale,, arrests in the Der
iegd affair Still more ominous was
?Jel to ?ArtF, - '
rea
l
ization tnat west Germany s
-
ttisfirOnining' political scandal had
'ought about a sharp increase in sur-
illatice_ activitiesAall kinds, and ap-
rently"- from eywAriarter.
In ffp_n&f_igiK M,unich, and Ham-
rg, foreign diplomats, newspapermen,
Assdclated PresS
ecret warfare
conventional
ng to increase
?rren eie
'irtidertoil
re;sed thar,
??unielt.
For Release : CIA-RDP75-00149R000300060007-9