BONN CALLS 6TH SUICIDE PRIVATE

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CIA-RDP70B00338R000300200035-5
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RIFPUB
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K
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1
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December 19, 2016
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July 15, 2005
Sequence Number: 
35
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Publication Date: 
October 24, 1968
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NSPR
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Approved For Release 2005/12/14 :CIA-RDP70B00338R000300200035-5 sALxs~=.o~. sv;a 2 4 dGT 163 .~?n~t ~a~~s-.6~~ ; ~>iyc~~e ~>z i~a~e Bonn, Oct. 24 UCr-The suicide of a Government press office (librarian yesterday teas not being ]inked to the five other, deaths of Bonn officials in the last three weeks which have stirred conjecture about espion? age rings. Two senior officers, a top in- telli~ence official, and an eca nomscs ministry employee have died either by suicide or under anysteriour circumstances and a Defense Ministry clerk has van- ished. A Government spokesman said, however, that the librari- an, Edeltraud Grapentin, 52, killed herself with an overdose of drugs for private reasons. Police continued their coun- try-wide hunt for the missing Defense Ministry clerk, Gerhard Boehm, 61, who vanished Mon- day leaving suicide notes at hisl office and home. Mr. Boehm' was said by his ministry to be no security risk apart from hav- ing .carried sealed classified documents as a messenger, Attention Ebcused on the death of Rear Adm. Hermann Luedke, 57, newly retired deputy chief of the logistics? department of NATO's European headquarters at Casteau, Belgium. He died mysteriously in a German for- est fourteen days after micro- film pictures of secret 1VAT0 documents had been traced to him September 24. The Luedke affair has stirredV a row over how suspected spies] are dealt with. In a series of priority questions to the bundes-{ tag (Parliament), the opposition Free Democratic party demand-~ ed clarification of whether Ad~ miral Luedke.}y~s,a susgectr,,;~,-; Approved For Release 2005/12/14 :CIA-RDP70B00338R000300200035-5