BEHIND THE SUICIDES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70B00338R000300200023-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2005
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: November 6, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

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6 NOV 1958
a-lwr Behind the Suicides
T HC suicide of West German
Roar Adm. Hermann Luedke,
one of six such deaths in a
fusillade of shocks affecting our
European security, is only the
visible cap on the NATO espion-
age iceberg.
secret navigational equipment from the Neuburg
NATO base. Actually, they were kaltgestalit,
operators.
As another result (unrevealed), our intelligence
services now agree that there are, Incredibly, in
West Berlin -alone at least 12,000 iron curtain,
agents.,
The Soviet, zeroing in on All, of course, are ultimately controlled-as are
NATO, is scoring much more the innumerable agents here-by the Kremlin
heavily than we are told against leadership and KGB foreign intelligence Chief Lt.
our vital defense positions. Gen. Aleksandr M. Sakharovsky.
Admiral Luedke, recently the deputy chief of
NATO's logistics command, took his life with a IN Brussels 14 nations have 14 representatives
hunting rifle in the Eifel Mountains on Oct. B. sitting with our NATO Ambassador, J. Harlan
Our U,S. intelligence services maintain a liaison Cleveland, and a top-level American military
with the West German Federal Intelligence ? mission. Practically everything we do diplo-'
'Service (BND) at Pullach, Bavaria, in a former matically and militarily in Europe, or intend to'
Nazi installation near Dachau. Our joint invest- do, requires its to inform NATO-our decisions;
igation of Luodke's suicide turned up microfilms and indecisions alike. We cannot avoid disclosures
(cosmic top secret) security clearance. This CTS Thus, our highest intentions and immediate
is a lethal weapon if in the hands of any full- capabilities against Russia go from the White
grown, four-square, paid-up traitor. House and State Department to Brussels in great
secrecy. But there and then the intelligence world
flies apart.
S UICIDES likewise have erupted all but simul- America's secrets go thru Brussels to the;
taneously in the. deaths of Maj. Gen. Horst Kremlin like water thru a sieve. Accordingly, the.
Wondiland, deputy chief of the BND itself; Lieut. Kremlin has a ringside chair at the White House
Col. Johannes Grimm, A Defense Ministry conference table,
counter-espionage officer; Hans-Il'einrich Schenk, The Soviet knows what President Johnson
an Economics Ministry senior official; Federal really intends to do about a push against Berlin
Press Office librarian Edeltraud Grapentin; and or Yugoslavia, for example, before many in our
an employee in the Defense Ministry, Gerhard own Washington Government may know it. The
Boohn. Kremlin knows what we are urging ouz' allies to
German communists call an agent kaltgestallt? do, and to what' extent Washington is prepared;
in the Red's technical jargon for a trained party to appease Russia and where. The Xremlin;
member who is "on ice" between missions. The knows everything--and at once.
suicides led to two highly publiolzed arrests on These are the deeper facts behind the Weit
Oct. 22, for the bold theft of -a U.S. miasIe and German suicides. and arrest, . ~...._ .~
Admiral Luedke, necessarily, hold a CTX depend upon NATO co-operation.
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