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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1959.

Otto John: an amazing

document

HE WAS ACCUSED

IN 1957

OF BEING A TRAITOR

Cologne.

TO THE NAZIS

IN all the ill-starred from Sefton Delmer

career of Dr Otto

John, West Germany's British Intelligence men have For the Gennan high-ups who on trial attor his ex-security chief he come anywhere near me, I have put John

them return from the East, his real trenson was that during the war he had worked with the British to destroy Hitler and his Reich, After the war he had gone on werking-unsuccessfully, I must confess-to prevent the return to influence of the Germans who have twice as my fate plunged the world into war.

not been able to pass escaped from Soviet cap- anything.

"When I was Arst examined tivity only to be gaoled in Bonn by Dr Wichman, the for alleged treason by then Attorney-General, he asked ine whether I had any infrma- his own people there ton which required immediate is no disaster more action. bitter than hig

"I told him I had nothing of at at ind, but that I wanted to tempted visit recently make a full report for the to Britain.

After talking with Dr John at his home in Cologne I cab reveal that this man, turned back as aTZ unde- sirable alicn Bad come to Brittin with important intex ma- tion for the chief of Britain's M.1.5.

No chance

انا

alve the Dr John wanted to head

Britain's cunter-

u Arst-hand capionage service

of the Rve weeks of Lecount close interrogation he was put through in Russia by a posse of the Kremim's top Intelligence' Erciallels

It is of unique and fascinating Interest, this report of Dr John's. I say so after having myself heard all but its most secret details from Dr John.

I am certain that our Intel- ligence mon must be anxious 10 recivo 1. firstly because Dr John is the first Western Intel- ilgence chief to have been cap- tured by the tussians and to have escaped West again.

Secondly, expert analysis of the questions asked by the Russians will reveal not only their technique of interrogation but, merc Important. their knowledge about the West and its secret gencies.

ever

John himself has been long- ing to pass on this information since, he first arrived in Berlin on December 12, 1965, after that Pimpernel escape across the sector boundary with the Danish Journalist Hendrick Bondle-Hendricksen.

Gennan and Allied agencies ut the earliest moment.

"Believe this if you can," and Dr Jeha stared at me, his blue ces largo with intensity,

have chance."

never been given the

Dr John lold me how, after he had been sentenced by the Karlsruhe Supreme Court-from which there is no appeal he got his inwyer to write to the British Embassy" in Bonni.

He told them that he was anxious to give a report of his Interrogation to the British authorilles as so many of the questions put to him by the Husslans concerned the British service.

An acknowledgment of his

letter arrived at the lawyer's offices, but that was all.

The truth.

"When I was released," said Dr John, “my first thought was to make this promised report in writing and mad it to London.

"But then I decided that it would be better to wait until the hon on my leaving Ger many had been lifted and make the report in London in person.”

The truth, of course, is that ever since Dr John on July 20, 1954, vanished into East Berlin, the British authorities have had an absolute taboo Kn any di their people showing any inférent in him.

Why? Because Otto John is anathena to the ex-hench

men of Hiller who are back in power today.

Our diplomats, keeping in with the powers that boas is the "Alas." gays folm, "neither rule of their trade-don't' want

Germin service nor the to offend the

The

FLU VICTIM

The proof.

You want propi? Whil John was serving his sentence in Muenster gaol Attorney- General Dr Max Guede, who indicted him in the Karlsruhe trial, formally, preferred another charge against Otto John. It was that he had betrayed the sito of the Peenemunde rocket base to the British and had thereby provoked the RAF bemhing mid' in which the base was destroyed and 8,000 German lives were lost.

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TRANSLATION

KENTER READIN

Fajtal Law Loves

Betriffis Freittäungsverfahren gegen die

wagen Totschlagu ais,' (Vorrat der Anlagen von Prengatade).

Ich babe das Verfahren singenteilt.

CONCERNS

Tankiant v1 0,5

Zaxo tone.

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legitimato operations and meeting with Canaris, he tells all Germans who opposed it me, was early in March 1839. were gulty of → criminal Tha

John, a young official Dilence.

in the Lufthansa airways con corn, was able to warn admiral of Hitler's march into Prague and him ita exact date.

His work

For weeks Herr Guode and his assistants questioned John about his alleged Peenemunde tronoon. But finally, on July 4, 1957, Guede informed Dr John that the charge against him had been dropped,

Flor John, who had been help. ing to process the Gentian generals in the prison comps and had heard many, a protid the old Wehrmacht, marahak” dis- ecming claim responsibility with

give grovelling "Ach, Herr Doktor,

was only a little general' who had to do what he was told, came over to Germany to help with some of the war erines trials.

came John

When the war not

started to go on frequent trips to Lisbon and Madrid. Oficially he was going to carry cut his duties as legal adviser to the Lufthansa concern.

mind Dropped.

you, because the accusation was entirely monstrous when pre- ferred by a State which in theery has fersworn Hitler and all his works. Guede dropped the charge for "lack, of suppor- ting evidence"!

Frankly I shall not be sur-

And then to top it all..this hated figure was appointed the first chiet of the newly con- stituted West Germany Security Office on December 5, 1950,

In fact, it was his job to get

This at the very time when it in touch with the British and had been decided to reapro the Americans on behalf of the Gemarly and the green light prised the

German anti-Hitler under had been given to wartime treason charge fa renewed against John a little lator.

Quite candid

For John is dangerously candid about his activities in the little band of anti-Nazis around Admiral Conaris (the edmiral later executed by Hitler) who considered it their patriotic duty as Germans to free Germany of

Hitler and sabotage his war.

round.

"My work with the British Secret Service started as early as March, 20, 1942," John says. When the generals' coup foiled on July 20, 1944, John Bow back to Lisbon from Berlin and the British brought him to England. Thot, incidentally, was when I first met him

But it la not merely his wILES time" treason" against Hiller's Germany that make John In other words, in the judictal

anathema for the high-ups of ruling eyes of the authorities

Ho makes no bones about his the Guedo type. His activilles Germany today, Hitler's war work with the British Secret in Germany after the war male and ils prosecution were fully Service either, John's first them hate him even more.

Germans

to undo all the measures im posed by the Allies and bring back the old Nazia to power.

Inevitably, John was the tar- get for every kind of intrigue. But does that justify us i Britain in refusing to accept the information he has brought back from Rusla? Surely it does not.

NEXT WEEK: The John report

-(London Express Service).

WEEKEND Friell

JAR

i think the talks have been most

anlightening."

BOURNEMOUTH SELECTION COMMITTER.

“You'va jurk got sid of Nicolson and you have Randolph Churchilk coming up. This is the only solution to your problem, gentlemen."

-(London Express Service)...

ROBERT MORLEY Presenting the Morley System for an expanding economy.......

narrow-minded bank managers should stick to the City Page

It's mugs like me who keep

TEVER laugh at money it's too im

portant" is surely not one of the better remarks attributed me. In any case I don't know what it means.

the country going

Like the character in Oscar Wilde's play, I can only understand what I am saying when I listen to myself very attentively.

... BY JAK

"That was the Editor on the telephone dear, said he didn't

think your cartoon today was very funny.

Since the remark Is on record I should

like to make it perfectly clear that it is лonsense-even if I said it.

My battlefield

of the

Some children are brought up with working knowledga of the Wars Roses. I, on the other hand, was reared on the battlefield of Capital Expenditure and Reversionary Interest

father was the elder of two brothers. who differed profoundly over the correct-- attitude towards money. He did not bellove that capital was sacred, and led to get hald of as much of it as possible and scatter it around-proterabis an_the-FAGDVOUILL,-

THE used to worry his younger brother, who besides being my father's trustee,

BRAL

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also on the Stock Exchange,

They were seldom shouting terms, and both finally convinced themselves that the other was insane. In both their Ives money played too im- portant a part to maku ter much happiness. But t did provide them with an abiding

Interest.

I was fond of them both, and

my

Difference

Sose of the squanderbug

JOE

meant to be spank quickly

We "otway, humjodi aneka “to Insurance, tabe out on their

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forever reporting: his own

manager. superion for his refusal to de

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Such was his faith in hie bility to get money that sa gươn

as he had posted one of his come plainte to head office, he would

they were very good to me, but that no method had ever been his vlanings, and I canember get Immense atisfaction from Someone had once told father. He was always generous with citizens agree with them -and I could never understand why devised of tying up they didn't realize how much through which it was not pos- pretend to play Tennis every

capital how my sister and I used to merely saving the stu they had in common.

sible for a eleven lawyer to drive diterabeni during out surge time somponn svo a word of However, I feel the iz là time a coach and harsis. Possibly holidays on the because when he was younger at Dieppe waiting for

Comino count prelay to those of sa who' com- The main difference between ho had driven coaches himself moment when be would appear!

the tileo to throw money about? them was that my father sub- my father son devoted

The Spadthitta, the Mugs, to this ip errupt. CUT scribed to the Sporting Lic: bdhoriem, quoted it constantly hand un soch a thousand-femme hewitchers to minent Over de flied with readers leat the

uncle io the Financial and, despite innumerable disp- not come tile mykuningate mortgages, deimilt on their life, digod

· stywender their subject of his wrath, should be Tlines. One concerned himself pointments, continued to believe with Starting and the other It with Cloning Prices.

the shops in comas no a bad time-punchions sercemail and Loyal... Always in the background of a clever lawyer. A

All his life he was looking for returned to be bours Fosbet who trillen the money away my father's thoughts-and ocea

had a habit of reappourlog in restaurants and bars and sionally brought sharply to the Dy father's other abiding muddenly, to bordw back the owarinor, "neho buy what that the Wilko Duliany ba

was the problem of hission was sambilor. Brave, money.

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Tosomrogful, and epergello, he

alfred; who ever, still give it to he's doing his duty 11M SLIDE mist had he adopted any Condirectly, therefore, he taundak, the girl horadh. They are the ligt, he's not quite up to the other profeulen, have died a me that on the sybple, moto, la

Speep the ngonómy · Expanding, dind a fully-copupled one.

have always tied to bur today and bulid a new canto al tren wyżać. I „kay: cononivably, scidom, do, mood tomorrow,

for

meg have been my own. Never- alonery Interest. I never quite Aderwipod which.

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wealthy Dinezką 55, was ho tócant. to be spent quickly, and I. SAARED (who, thi the flush nhìENIDO pečd not Hero 3 worried.

Generous

wy further during his lifetime, -. He never suffered the bbærdom-"In tra" i sin peace but restrained him from dipping of retirement. Absorbed, even opposed by a 'schußowok boDEOS info the capital.

on his death-bod, wiitti, the opinion.

A great many of his waking probiern, of what would win the the bullding soci

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brother

shame

Hand Once remios Loyal to

lovod in father, very much, even if I never underwood him And that is slao nighly

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