NATO IS URGED TO SHIFT A-BOMBS IN SPY SCARE

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2005
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• Publication Date: October 26, 1968
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NATO Is Urged to Shift
A-Bombs in Spy Scare
By Norman Crossland
Manchester Guardian
BONN; Oct. 24-Security of- pentin, committed suicide by
ficers at' NATO headquarters taking s l e e p i n g pills on
are reportedly demanding that Oct. 16.
the stockpile of nuclear war- [Police in Linz, Austria's
heads in Europe be moved in second largest city, Monday
view of the risk that the late arrested a platoon commander
West German Rear Adm. Her- on suspicion of taking photo-
mann Luedke formerly dep- graphs of military installations
u ea o alliance's logis- and passing them to a foreign
tics department, may have be- service, Reuters reported.]
trayed secrets to a foreign NATO Investigates
power.
They are asking also that Possibility of Spy Ring
the headquarters staff under- R^uters
go a stringent security test. BRUSSELS, Oct.
Luedke, whd-was found dead spy-catchers have started an
in ~a game reserve in the Eifel intensive Investigation to try
to unearth a suspected Soviet
hipsd near Bonn on curi 8, is espionage ring in the 15-nation
bh NATO security of. organization, informed sources
ficers to have had a detailed, '
knowledge of the position of said today. nuclear depots throughout the Members of national delega-
area and the a national dell al
area the secretariat are being screened
In Bonn, Defense Ministry following the deaths of mili-
Lued es said the extent of tary and political persons in
secret material material had knowledge of
been ex- top- West Germany, Italy and Bel-
aggerated. But public concern gium.
is growing, and members of The hunt took on new ur-
the Social Democratic Party gency when top-ranking Turk-
and the opposition Free Demo- ish official Nahit Pmre was
cratic Party have raised piarlia- caught photocopying secret
mentary questions about the documents inside the closely-
case land five other suicides of guarded NATO headquarters
German officials in the past 16 here in mid-September.
days. In Italy, Gen. Renato San-
Suspicions about Luedke dalli, former air minister, shot
were aroused after pictures of himself yesterday. In Belgium,
secret NATO documents were police are investigating the
found in a film of his which unexplained death of the Pol-
had been left ate photographic ish-born French wife of an
shop here for developing. American sergeant employed
Investigations into the Lued- at SHAPE,
ke affair are still going on, Police said Sgt. Albert Fal-
but so far no connection is Ion f o u n d his wife, Irene,
thought to have been estab- lying dead in their bedroom
lished between his death and .when he entered their apart-
the other suicides. Experts ment after midnight one night
say that suicides are apt to early this month.
occur in waves, as unstable
people may be induced to take;
their lives having read of the l
suicide of others.
The most important suicide
was Maj. Gen. Horst Wendt-
land, 56, acting head of the
West Germany security serv-
ices. The latest was disclosed
today. A woman who worked
in the archives of the federal
press office, Edeltraud Gra`2
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