THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1961.
GLORIOUS ENTRANCE
DOWNFALL OF A DOUBLE AGENT
BONN.
THIS is the sorry and absurd tale of Herr Horst Eitner, who was Our Man in Berlin, became Their Man in Bar- lin as well, and is now Nobody's Man. Just an awful warning.
He is in jail, because he for-
got that spies shouldn't make passes at other women
their wives are around.
while
on
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by Colin Lawson
den under the floorboards, na- turally.
OUR MAN-AND
With an income of £55 a week now-plus expense (and how do you check a spy'a expenses?) Herr Horst Eitner THEIRS-IN BERLIN... was in the good time.
Eliner first became a spy
In 1955 he married Brigitte, a 1848. He was hired by General refugee girl from Poland Just Gehlen, who had done so well For the benefit of any young spying
out of a Communist Juil Sho the Russians for spy who has not been keeping inter during the war that the provided hims with good contacts up with James Bond standards, Amerleans hired him as one of in the East-Poles, Rumanians, to the pub the story must be told-although their wizards in Munich as coon Bulgarians, Hungarians. British Intelligence headquarters as the war was over.
in dumb v th embarrassment
and the Russians haven't even
the heart to issue a denial.
TALKING
POINTS
HIS WIFE FOR
From his fat in No. 47 BETRAYED BY Wicianstrasse he would nip out opposite, where, he never spent less than £3 a night on beer Jaced British Intelligence was now schaapps. High days and holl- Eliner was an apt pupil, but paying him £27 a week. But days he celebrated with 25 even then he was only 23--he drink made him careless. On a worth of champagne cheap drank too much. And uples mustn't drink, so Getilen sacked trip to East Berlin in 1958 he champagne. James Bond will be WINKING
sorry to hear. was picked up and turned over in the Russians.
him.
Eilner wandered round Berlin chcing out a Hving as a books- keeper and an odd-job man. It's not so easy for ex-sples in Berlin these days. The market's overloaded
Grim smile
What was be doing to earn AT A WAITRESS !
all this?
For the West-East Gorman
Industrial plans; factory out- persisted, and tools them to the This, as we all know, is the Put, Dew plants, expansion in dat. An hour later Eltner was
various. industries; Russian arrested-still drinking.
But in the early 'Oflies he got situation where the agent with troop movements, the mumber a little contact work for the agim smile, crushes the plan of military trains entering East No Government can be British Intelligence
capsule between his teeth of Germany. olice
felis his foes in their moment of an eager, triumph. long secure without a for- Berlin. He seemed midable opposition.
up-and-coming type, and WIS soon making his way in the profession.
•
-DISRAELI.
No woman should marry
a teetotaller or a man who
does not smoke.
*
-R. L. STEVENSON.
Because half 1 dozen
Group leader
Like any
no
trunto,
Once again there was no stiff upper ip stuit for Eltner, poison capsule, no last For the East-presumably the to his copters.
about tro information on
SUITIO
Information
Plus
There was nothing so drama- West tle about Herr Horst Eitner, The Western sples. Russians made a businesslikce offer to him. He could work for them too,
But success in business doesn't always bring a happy home life.
He Just confessed,
Address list
Hia orrent was
knows, Spying liere hasn't the cuno exclusiveness that it hun elsewhere,
Some while back à Communist newspaper in East Berika pub- Ished two full pages of Berlin sufficiently addresses which, it claimed were Tempeatable, hard-
The Inst strax came for his Biner eagerly signad on the working, salosman, he climbed dotted line. Ratssion rates were wife when, as they sal drinking starting to bring two English Western Intelligenes offices or from freelance, paid by results, wightly ahead of the West-£28 in the pub, Eliner aude a pass men hurrying to Berlin to meeting places and, way people to rotainer-plus-commlision, and a week."
at her girlfriend and` o pretty. question him and find how in the know, "00 per cont "of grasshoppers: under t fern finally to the securky of a re-
red-haired waltress at the same much damage his counter-spying them were right. make the field ring withgular alary. He was on the to was
They kitted him out well too. time.
given a tailor-made,
had done. He freely admitted There were, It has begn,- cal- their importunate chink, books.
double-breasted suit which con- Brigitto stormed out and into taking photographs of contact culafod 15,000 spies in Berlin; pray do not imagine that He climbed in suthority to- esated a miniature camera. The the nearest police station, "ty men who came to his flat, and 7,000 of them Our-Mer, 8,000 those who make the noise from long hand to leader of a lens was, of course, in the bot- huskand ki spying - for the topo recording their convaran- Their Men,
small, group, and On to the tom button of the jacket. E Russians," he said.
tion.
This remarkabla, pietura of the Chinese Manufacturers Association's 18th Exhibition of Hongkong Products was taken by Mr S. Y. Johnson Ma in colour' and black-and-white.
The former won his first prize in the colour slide group of a photography competition sponsored by the Exhibition, while his black-and-white offort took third prize in its category.
Mr Ma took the pictures with a Rolleiflex comora fitted
with 3.5 Tessar lens.
His colour photograph was taken on • 50 ASA film with a time exposure of 90 seconds at f:8 aperture. The black-and-white photograph (above) was taken on a 100 ASA Adox film with a time exposure of 50 seconds at f:16.
Mr Ma took both pictures shortly after 6 pm on Christ- mas Day. He had to take stops to provent the heavy traffic in the area. from getting into his pictures. Ho used a tripod mounted on the back of a torry and climbed a nearby ladder to look into the camera.
JEFF Ray
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