A COVEY OF SPIES IS FLUSHED IN GERMANY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700290014-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 4, 2005
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: November 3, 1967
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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_SPECIAL REPORT
BONN
A Covey of Spies
Is Flushed in
Germany
I-.7.31oriet agent Heinz Siitterlin
(right) posed as a photographer
[mid of the good life. Spy Martin
llarggraf (below) served embassy
par/es as -the perfect waiter."
- - 4st, %At ?
u manor. a photographer and
charged with wring
[or the I num in Ii "Si Germain-
idle, the dratruiiir defection of high-
"ad; ng OVerit ergot) V Range.
Pas 17e(.011111 Of the lutist CON OW es-
poorriee episode 11I/S complied from re-
pots lit I WE Lortr.SpalithIll IhrhUVI
I hit hall, in Bonn and Ti N1E- I .1 et' Cur-
e.pusicierit Jess rook in If ffshington.
i!IIartiii Nfarggraf was a waiter's
waiter. Ile worked at the best rest all-
rants in Bonn, and he was often in
demand to serve at the cocktail par-
ties and recepiimis which pass for es e-
ning entertaininent in the diplomatie
commintirs of any capital eli N. -Ile
is the perfect waiter, an emplos er
said of hini. "Ile sees nothing and lie
hears nothing. ?
This estimate, as it turned (mit. NA as
inge lllll HIS?and I tHlt,;;, r011g. ( hi
I h.!. I i 11arggraf was arrested liv the
11 est I iernian federal pollee and ac-
i-osed of silo. Mg for the Sift let I'Ilion.
The government charged that M arg-
gra f not only saw and heard plenty
St ith his ow FI eves and ears, but that
he also had put electronic bugs at the
diplomat if. functions he sem, ed so im-
peecahIN
'I he arrest hroke the most new s?-
Oethy espionage story in years.
Three other accused spies were picked
up. Ma rggra is hrother-in-law. Leo-
pold l'ieschel. a janitor at the French
minim,. mission in Bonn; Heinz Slit-
Ito loosed as a freelance pho-
tographer. and his \Sift! Leonore. a
well-placed secretary in the 11 est
German foreign I &ice. The!: Isere all
arrested within fis e hours after
Lt. Colonel les gen% ev-genyevich
Runge, a high-ranking operative ill
the Soviet intelligence Ss stein. defect-
ed to the West Is ith his is I fe and 8-
year-old son.
I( tinge himself is as tile higgest
catch of all. Posing as a pikehoy sales-
man, he had directed an opera! huh1
Rich had Mtercepted nearly every
code. every piece of correspondence
arid every secret in the Bonn for-
eign office and in the French em-
bassy. As soon as flies. crossed into
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High-level sp'in' at
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ranked as 01 II a ,11011 scandal. Leo-
'lore's suicide. Inoses or. made head-
lines. German- Inierican intelli-
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damage in *5 hal a Vl vsi Grum,"
reit or has vallt?t1 -illy most important
vase of espionage in the historN of the
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