SECOND AFFAIR OF 'DER SPIEGEL' ROCKS GERMANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200830022-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: January 31, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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JAN 3 1 1965
Second .Ilffair
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he Bundeswehr, who
$y ,John Dornbprg i published ? details of f,.
A Special Correspondent atomic mines project.
BONN, article last December Oust,;
The idiosyncrasies of West a sensation at the NAT(;
Foreign Ministers' confer -
Germany's penal code, con?- ence,
biped with a traditional in- The company may turn ort
cifnation toward government to be even more illu5.t.rious if
by secr2oy, have produced a the federal Solicitor Gener'al';;
new Spiegel magazine affair. office. in Karlsruhe decides to
Rudolf Augstein, 41, the also investigate Defense M,ir
spunky news -magazine's erli- ister Kai-Uwe von 31assel In
'for and publisher who, .long r..cnnecti l? with th? ri?a.tarl
'with several of his lieuten- 'I'o data.. hnivevel ? ti ;s, ;
ants, wa.5 arrested two years: not been determined whc
sgo in connection with an+ Mr, von I.asi?ci's a, t.irar? t r
article criticizing the effl-? the January issue, t1 For, i;
cienry and capability of the. Affairs ma;;aZ,ue? wi it
Bundeswehr, is again under he also mentionCc arr,r,ia
investigation for treason. mines, consl.ieutes a
1?oss;bl
The subject this time is a violation of C;frn?al lartr.
,cover article in Der Spiegel; Notwithstauthr}g ti' e;vt Iiii -
dealing with German military, ferences hetA;?een 1,1w old nil t
t~rw- W.1
German border,
eying Ifl . cons uNltiotr 4t
1 ` tiro
}S y5i l..A i ~.5 !111,. A,
well knewr to fordign coun-
tries. In thw eac cif, it,~r. Aug-
stein and Mr. Vlei1?stein it has
been established that ther re-
ceit ed the it lnforn.ation
about tie o tomic' mines plan ;
from the Pentagon In Wash-
ington.
The code goes: even further. ?i
Under Paragraph 100A, one
car-, ~'le found gltil.t?' of treasoI1 for divulging false infor'n?a-
tiolr "which, If ,it were -not,
fat; E. tN cold be a, state secret.,, '
1', i.. th s lis;';igraph ghat,;
We]nsc in.,aiid,!
p'lls b(dh /Si'.
Y ' au;st,in in rite squeze.
2 u D,fe I 1 inl tr;' has,;
ri t r er: 1' I r. rel)o ti/d plans
1: plate (1. iie.o'c mines alonty
t!1e i?nrciel ar3 not true. If
the t is i he rasp, then the two
alas r:li be tudil;5'. --not of
dis: insit> i ta!:e :,;fTrets ? but
c-f c ivuig r.g state
HAZARDS ' Germans for 1,, fork;
Under exist?n;; la-? is, S.'ri
't'hough there are slgnifl- of which dater bee: to t:.1
cant differences :between the !tunes of i isniei'eir d t;1
latest case and the one that ;Kaiser, it is virtus:`i: ,fl)hIn.-
pnea.rly toppled the govern- sible to writei'ahnur, or crib
meilt two years aSO, Ulf, , cize government m5 ' n a :y i}n I
with
t
fo
li
reign pp
cy
cour
similarity of %be underlying
principles involved disturbs ing trouble. Governrr:ont oti
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most German,s? a dais who like t
'sitat
The cases paint lip the ease card:: close do ;,rot h to make use of thee,' 'aws.
with which German ,lour-
na.lists can be suppressed ,and rl r' E ____ `1
the hazards they:
encounter
_
when they set out to criticize; I arragraph 99 of itr% Ger-
the government or. informs n? 'n. 1;1et?a1 code--a .;(dc r.-
the public of governmental: sr'nf.i,l.i x unchanged t1, rough
-actions. ? late regimes 'of, the Kaisi
Reich, Weiwar L"e n-tbl:c,
True. this time there were.
Third and k'ed inl
inc, police raids of Der
' Spiegel's Hamburg editorial: punlir,.-des ii'illes F;. S, "slat.:
offices. Neither was Mr, Aug secrY+ts" an e.bjrcr;.,
stein arrested. (He is . still' knouledac, espy-.ciali; docu-
awaiting ' formal indictment, ments, drg?.w?ingti, murals or
and trial in connection with formulas which the ederel
of is-s states,
the 1902 probe.) Republic or one
for its st
ud ;hou' tvelf,a:'c, t
eWhat is more. e Aug-, kaen rn tl
secret, from fore gn go
stein, often regarded d as the ' ernrnelrts."
enfant terrible of German
s
. spected company this tine st c ;, ..a its a? IrTx.,
Under investigation with him then discloses them to otl? r ~~ ~~
i Ad lb ?t W i t ' 98 t) pc: cc ns or makes 1 sienl ! Der Sliieget publial.er Arras
s eet en
em
journalism, finds himself in; Anyone 'Who rl1SCi' si s cti? 1;
the most impeccable and rr_; a secret to unauthur ~f d lrec-
snr
abtain5 1 h d
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resexve. lieutetiant ,
the stodge, conservative 1,1011 101) of tiff.. coa('? ?; (.11113r,11
Frankfurter Ailgemeine Zei-j of treason and suq,:er , to is
tung, lone; as 10 years iltl.priso I-
Tn fact, It was Mr. Weil-; menu:
stein, a general staff officer:: _ The code makes, no dnc-
s
, , " lirlY known. accordhie' tt) military affairs columnist off