TIGHTER SECURITY IS SOUGHT IN BONN GOVERNMENT TRIES TO CALM FEAR OF BIG SPY SCANDAL

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• Publication Date: October 29, 1968
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TIGHTER SECURITY
IS SOUGHT IN BONN
Government Tries to Calm
Fear of Big Spy Scandal
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
Spec141 to The New York 'Dime
BONN, Oct. 28-Chancellor:
Kurt George Kiesinger and Vice
Chancellor Willy Brandt will
call in the West German intel-
ligence and security chiefs to
work out better coordination
in counterespionage activities,
a Government spokesman said
today. The announcement came
amid a wide spy investigation.'
However, the spokesman,
Conrad Ahlers, and other Gov-
ernment representatives at a
news conference, sought today
to calm concern over 2 pos-
sibly major spy scandals.
Mr. Ahlers said that Clark
W. Clifford, the United States
Defense Secretary, "was not
fully informed when he said
last Friday that the United
States considered the West
German investigation _ 'a runt-
ter of the utmost setip_U i ss."
The United States ` Empassy
today refused all comment.
The investigation, in which
Mr. Ahlers today welcomed the
participation of the Parliament,
concerns three suicides, one ar-
rest, the escape of six suspect-
ed agents to Communist East
Germany and the theft last
year of a Sidewinder missile
and, its Starfighter guidance
system.
Questioned Sharply
The outstanding case is that
of Rear Adni. Hermann LUdke,
who was found shot to death
Oct. 8 in a hunting area in the
Eifel mountains. He had been
questioned the day before
about a film from a miniature
camera that he had given to a
camera shop for development.
The film contained pictures of
secret allied documents.
Col. Lothar Domrtise, a De-
fense Ministry spokesman, de-
fended today the handling of
the cases against sharp ques-
tions from the German press.
"The Security Office had
done everything possible and
correct in the right sequence,"
he said.
Colonel Domrose was asked
why the 58-year-old admiral,
who had been one of the top
logistics officers for the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization,
had been allowed to go by him-
self to the Eifel mountains after
he had come under suspicion.
He replied that the Government
still had to respect the admiral's
civil rights and also did not
want to tip him off.
Mr. Ahlers told the press that'
there was no proved link among
the various cases. He said also
that ' West Germany's allies
were being consulted on the in-
vestigation.
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