SWISS WEARY OF INTRIGUE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400030015-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: January 3, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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By PAUL GHALI
Ghicazo Daily News Service
PARIS-Little Switzerland is sick and tired of
being used as the happy hunting ground for spies
of all nationalities.
A communique issued by the'Bern Department
k,q'I,r~G a Justice warns in, particularly vigor-
44!! sTtllrr~~ gainst the use of Swiss territory by.
foreign secret agents to spy against any "third
country." These .illicit dealings are' under constant
watch by the Swiss counterespionage the com-
Inunique states.
The latest incident, which provoked the out-
burst of Swiss irritation, , occurred ,a few days
ago. Police caught Jon Hidos, third secretary at'
the Romanian embassy in Bern, passing funds to
an agent and, entrusting him with a further mis-'
lion on behalf of Communist Romania.
Two weeks before Jon Hidos was caught,
Swiss counterespionage reportedly discovered . a
whole network being conducted by spies from
East Germany. These agents were operating in
Austria with money and instructions transmitted"
through Switzerland.
Switzerland protested to the U. S. Embassy last
February when Soviet seeret agent Youri Nossenko'
was contacted by the Geaatl:az1..I=rxge11ce,., gency..
during the Geneva Disarmament Conference. Nos':
senko.later fled to the United :sCates 'with a, sizable
'briefcase 'full of .important secret Soviet : Docu.,:
ments,
Allen Dulles, then OSS chief in 'Bern, was in.,
volved in ' the July 20, .1944, attcnipt on Adolf
,Tlitler's life by 'anti-Nazi German' - officers. His
activities during the' war -led' to several protests
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