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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800030011-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 1999
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: January 14, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN

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FOREIGN BROADCAST JANUARY 14, 1967
INFORMATION SERVICE
F O R Y 0 U R I N F O R M A T I O N
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The socialist Vienna ARBEITER-ZEI`1UNG of 14 January 1967 carries a 1,110 world article
on the case of two Linz security police inspectors suspected of espionage for the
Israeli and U. S. secret service. After quoting an interior ministry communique as
confirming an earlier report by the paper that an investigation was under way, tne
paper complains that the two officers concerned, Leo Maier and Otto Weidinger, have
still not been suspended from duty. The paper says in part:
close contact with the U. S. secret service before 1955, when
These contacts with members of foreign agents organizations were at that time known
to Maier's superiors and not quite unwelcome to them. Last but not least, through
these contacts many a valuable piece of information found its way across the demar-
cation line from Linz and Salzburg to Vienna. At that time no one at the pro-
vincial security police headquarters suspected Maier of doing anything wrong in the
course of his work as a member of the state security police.
"When with the end of the occupation era the members of the CIC left Austria together
with the withdrawal of the U. S. forces, the contact between Maier and'the U. S.
secret service seemed interrrupted. Actually, however, super James Bond Maier main-
tained contacts with the 2nd U. S. secret service, CIA. This fact probtdbly ex-
plains why Maier and later on also his colleague Weidinger several times surprisingly
supplied valuable information to Austrian agencies.
"Where the site for the mutual swapping of information waslocated has not, yet been
definitely established. ARBEITEB-ZEITUNG has learned that Maier is said to have rented
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