JULIUS ROTHKOPF, FREE EUROPE AIDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700090003-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2004
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 16, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

JUN 1 6 1966
Approved for Release. 2005/01/05: CIA-RDP75-0
JULIUS ROTRKOPF,
FREE-EUROPE AIDE.
trog09o003.
economics Expert, 69, Dies'
-Had Fled From Nazis
Julius Rothkopf, a Yugosla)
economics expert and a former
member of the staff of Radio
Free Europe, died Tuesday at
his home, 156-08 Riverside Drive
West. He was 69 years old.
Dr. Rothkopf had been a
noted jurist before coming to
this country. He served Radio
Free Europe as a script-writer
and an expert on Yugoslav' eco
nomic affairs from 1950 until
his. retirement in 1963. He was,
lalso national editor of East Eu
rope magazine, a monthly pub-
lished by Free Europe Commit-'
tee, Inc,
He was born in Sarajevo,-
which was then an Austrian
city, On' graduating from the
law school of the University of,
Vienna, he joined his father's
law offices.
When the Nazis invaded Yugo-1
slavia in 1941, he and his wife,
the former Zora Ilic, a judge in
the Federal Supreme Court of
Sarajevo, escaped to Italy. They
were interned there during
World War II and came to the
United States in 1949.
In addition to. his, tvii'e, Dr.
Rothkopf leaves two sisters,
Mrs. Anna Felbcr of Atlanta
and Mrs: Therese Beirer oft
Vienna, .
A funeral servk. will'be heldi
at .1:330 P.M. ? today,! at the!
Riverside, Amsterdam ;Avenue'
and 76th Street,..
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