A TALE OF ORMSBY GORE IT'S GREATLY TO HIS CREDIT

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 1999
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• Publication Date: March 20, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

MAR 2 0 1963
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..TALE OF ORMSBY GORE
It's' Greatly to His Credit
By DAVID BRAATEN
Star Staff Writer
There were several baffling
aspects to the affair, I re-
flected, as I sifted the meager
facts in what is known on all
the backstairs of Embasy Row
as "The Case of the ' Ambas-
sador's Credit Card,"
Admittedly, most of the mys-
tery could be traced to the
damask curtain of secrecy
drawn across the whole episode
by the British Embassy.
The credit card was missing,
there could be no doubt what-
ever about that. It was an
Esso courtesy card made out to
Sir David Ormsby Gore him-
self, for the purchase of petrol,
oil, tyres and other net itjez.
for the Ambassador's` Jagi r
Mark 10 and' his Rolls Royc .
And it was -lea that It had
somehow fallen into the wrong
hands. Bills have been coming
in from all over the place for
the past two or three months,
eportedly to a total of $185.
But who lost it? Where? And
nder what circumstances? Has
he security of Her Majesty's
mbassy been breached? Is it
he work of foreign agents? Or
s it all a smokescreen laid
own by the diabolic operatives
f British Intelligence?
An official Embassy spokes-
an flatly refused to reveal the
nswer to these or any other
uestions about the case. ,
"It's the Ambassador's pri-
ate affair and we don't' want.
o go blabbing it all 'roundthe,
own," he said. coldly.
Well, what steps, =pray telly,
ave been taken to crack- thb
ase?
"It has been reported to the
ppropriate authorities," the
pokesman snapped. "I have
othing to add to that."
But what authorities? Who,
which is nobody's collection
agency, said it isn't handling
the case, The District Police
said they haven't been asked to
investigate. The CIA under-
standably remiCf fs si n . Age1it
Carutier 'o'ri ii"ntelli-
gence could not be located, but
possibly he was off on another
Kremlin assignment.
Some there are who think
Scotland Yard has been called
in on the case.
But wait-who is that famil-
iar figure who has had the run
of the British Embassy re-
CzIY'I'all; spare; erect de-
sfint; hls.. obvious years, angular
loytclamped tight on a curving
meerschaum, dressed in deer-
stalker cap and Inverness cape,
keen eyes squinting through a
magnifying glass.
You don't suppose . ?
Quick, driver, Baker street, and;
working on it? The FBI, 1 in heaven's name, man, hurry!
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