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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400310020-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: July 28, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

opular in Yemen and Colonel Ken-
edy assumed the name of Abd al- .:TURKEY
ahman Kandi, claiming that he.
elonged to the Kanda tribe, which Easier Said Than Done
nhabits the Hadhramaut area.
Expelled after the revolution, he On July 4 a group of fascist thugs
con returned via Saudi Arabia to attacked a Workers' Party rally in
elp Al-Badr. Now he is his?political' Bursa. Fifteen, Including the Party's
dviser and concurrently special ad Secretary-General, Sciek, were
iser to the., commander-in-chief, wounded.- The attack was organized
rince Abdalla Ibn el-Hasan, But he by the Society for the Struggle
s also entrusted with confidential: Against Communism. Senator Nijazi
fissions. Agirnasly called for an inquiry to
? Did he ' supply, the three silencer establish whether the Society was
guns?, Could ? be., :? ,;: being financed by foreign oil compa-
nies.
41 .
F.R. The Senator has good reason for
, demanding an inquiry. The' prp ent
campaign for oil nationalization. is
worrying foreign companies..Thtt is
West-German courts often acquit evident from a lengthy article in the'
ar criminals, That's' not news. But London Times of June 29, five: days
his is: aman has been arrested and before the' Bursa outrage.
s to., be tried for not being a' -war ; Says The Times: "In Turkey today,
riminal:, ` . ' the most striking phenomenon is
Hans von ? Hagen-Gerlach, who the violent campaign of vituperation
ives In Lemgo, was very popular..? against foreign oil companies opcrat-.
Mang local SS men. He was known ..inglin the country, which has been
s the holder of the nazi Knight's raging with mounting frenzy for'tho
ross, as a man who had spent 15 past eight months. It has already led
ears in a Dutch prison for his war, '. to demands for the outright nation-
'rimes. And Hagen-Gerlach was on- alization of Turkey's oil resources."
y;'tdo''ready to tell his story at SS And The Times, which 'speaks' for'
allies:',,: big City interests, is sharply critical
It was the kind of story former SS of the Turkish Lefts, who, it ap-
en liked to hear. 'They even. nick-,: pears, include taxi drivers pledged :'
amed him Warrior Hagen; after one to buy only Turkish petrol, and stu-
f the.,heroes: of the, Nibelungenlied. dents and professors of Ankara and-,
hey helped: him':niake a new start Istanbul univ-,rsities campaigning
fter.;h-is 15 years 'in' prison. He man- under the slogan "Turkish oil for
ged: ;to get quite a bit'of' money the Turks." ? it is also critical of the
ut? of these kind-hearted' nazi thugs." Turkish' exploration company whose'
,He was doi'ng.well,;but;only until Chairman Ihsan Topaloglu It de-?,
was found. :out that hey:was not a"scribes as "the leading figure behind
ar.? criminal, ,,had-;not :been in a the nationalization campaign." His
utch prison;- had.not been. awarded ambition, it writes, Is "tol set up a
e Knlght's;Cross, ?h'ad,'changed his. ,.' vast national oil 'empire which
ame from 1-Iagen to von' Hagen-', would comprise production; market-
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Yankee at the Court
of the Imam
E 3,
rabic, was a viser to we a e insist the he be tried. That's w at i
mam Ahmcd and, according to can happen to a man in the Federal
ome reports, 'has adopted the Isla- 4tepublic who wants to enjoy the.:
is faith. Americans were never privileges of a war criminal. '
Three unidentified individuals
were arrested on July 10 in the
home of Marshal al-Sallal, Presi-
dent of the Yemeni Republic. . An
Associated Press report says they
were carrying American-made auto-
matic guns equipped with silen r
This is the. kind of weapon thCl
iil;ttally sst?os'to'`its agents. How. d'.
the guns get into the hands of the
three men who, apparently, , had `
come to assassinate President al-,
Sallal? ' .
Washington has 'recognized the
Yemeni Republic, but' continues to
supply arms to the Yemeni rebels
fighting to put" Imam Mohammed.,,
AI-Badr back on the throne. Accord
.Ing to the Cairo press, there' are
American advisers among the
foreign' military experts training Al-
Badr's. troops. One of them is Colo-,
nel Bruce Kennedy. He speaks' fluent
Mauldin In- the Chicago Sun-Times '
The Wrong Hagen
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