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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH- 19,, 1959.

THE OTTO JOHN DISCLOSURES

WHY HE TRIED TO GET INTO

one of the Western cloak-and-dágger agencies had made a capture like that accomplished by the Russians when West Germany's Security Chief, Dr Otto John, fell into their hands on July 20, 1954, you can be quite sure of one thing. The Monarch. prisoner would have been left no time to collect

his wits.

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Yesterday's entran London Express Service.

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UNHAPPILY urinappr` TAPP.

He would have been squeezed and squeezed until every scrap of useful information he possessed had been prised out of him. Only then, when the interrogators had finished with him, would the political warriors and propaganda experts have been allowed to take over.

Not so the Soviels. With them the propagande usefulnera of Otto John came tops. Only after had made his radio de- John clarations end delivered a long Presa speech at the monster conference in East Berlin, and after his presence on the Soviet side of the Ion Curtain had been exploited to the maximum, then-and only then-did they begin to treat John as an object of interrogation.

Slow start

Interrogation

and Stranger,

even more the significant,

by the same was carried out military team-Russians, nil of John them who had bundled

in Berlin, who wrote his speech for him in Hussinn, which was fico tronsinted Into German), and worked oul, with brilliant anticipation, the impromptu

ansavers John was to give to the

reporters' questions.

ROLEX

Which suggests that in Russin like anywhere in the West espionage, polical warfare. and counter-espionage all come under the same department.

cur

This little piece of informa on

have zlone, I should thought, would make it worth the while of

intelligence

DT men to have a talk with

In John about his experience Russia instead of ignoring him -as they are doing-in defer- ence to his enemies in Bonn.

But let me give you the high- . lights of his fascinating story to

he himself has been telling it to me, atter his vain attempt to go to London and see the British authorities.

BRITAIN

the

"Frankly. I am still astank ed when I think about it all. In spite of all the weeks the Rumians had had to get up their brief, neither Gutshin nor lats bows Alexander Alexandrovilch Mikhailov, who took over "Whatever their motive they what he walked our work. He questioning when Gutshin made did not even start with the tock me into a specially pre- no progress, seemed to be stuff questioning when they got me pared room in the villa-it had ciently well informed shout me to Moscow. That was on August been miked, of course and sat or the organisation I'directed. 23, a little more than four weeks me down in an armchair., + "One of their traublus after I had been drugged and shanghaled across the border *Then he fumbled in his was that they were obsessed for them by that rat Wohlge- valise and produced a docu- ment. It was a photo of a "For 12 days they kept me West Gorman. Intelligenco in a pletsant enough country summary prepared only a villa in a birch-and-pine forest Just outside Moscow. Serebjury couple of weeks before... Bor, the place was called, All cat, drink, play billiards, and go for walks.

muth.

we did was

The work

"Needless to say I was never allowed out alone. The Intelli- gence officer attached to me, a plump young fellow of about 30, who had been edicated th Berlin-Vadim Vitoldovitch Gulshin," he said his name was -pretended to treat the whole at thing es a splendid holiday

Government expense.

"When at last we flew to the resort on the Black Sea Riviera, where they had prepared a vill for me, he even brought his pretty little blonde wife along. She stayed at a rest

camp near by

"Goggro was the name of the

resort.

"Then after two more days of swimming, loating, and cat- Ing. Gutshin did gel down

to

with

*

"Gutshin pointed to a passage in the summary: Now, how did they get hold of that bit of information? It is very impor- tant to us to know that, he said, direct pleasantly approach.

"But I was ready for that one. i would gladly help you if I could, as you know, Vadim Vitoldavitch, don't you? I said. But I just don't know anything about the information-getting side of my outfit. You see, I was the president of the office, a' bit of a Agufcheed. I suppose, and really concerned only with the legal aspects and, of course, the general

administration,

and

policies of the whole show.

"Gutshin produced a list of addresses and phone numbers, He claimed it was a list of the members of my office. Again plended ignorance. and although we went over the whole thing, again and again during the next five weeks, he never managed to shake me.

with the British Secret Ser- vica--and my alleged mom bership of it. -

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German security, organisation by to take you won't get another the British and I have never word out of me,' i said, and had any, Brillih training in flung out of the room. Intelligence.

Was Cired.

right Two days before, A hospital "Mikhailov asked me about horse had arrived at the hozze

work with my warme

the and was serving the meals for British and Americans in Spain us. What I feared was that the and Portugal. I was perfectly had come to give me a shot or frank about it. I also told thein two of my propaganda work. In section, bid that, I might start

bf

the notorious truth

talking under its' influence."

"Nothing like that hap- had pened. Some highup must

Britain later on in the war.

They wanted to know what agreement. I made with the British and have the Americans before the out The generals carried July 20 plot against Hitler. Angry

"Mikhallav,

thick-set, swarthy man who had fewn specially to Berlin from Moscow to take charge of mo when I fast came into their power, and later had flown to GogyTI

The whole idea join Gutshin, seemed to me to remove Hitler, wan't it, and for And the West and the Germans to be a skfiful, determined, experienced operator. I am told

10

was to

all

decided that they would do better if they kupt me de a propagando pappat, and that there was nothing much to be learned.

"A few days later I was on ' my way back to Moscow with Gutshin and his wife. Michalov I never saw again, and on December @ I was flown back to Berlin and handed over to the East Germate for sale keeping.”

Well, the keeping of Dr John

he le near the top of the Soviet turn on us Russians? service.

again Again and

"So I told him that therD WES that I no agreement, that the British by the Soviet Germans did no Mikhalloy would insist was a British agent, that I had and Americans had ruined boen made head of the Germanı our German hopes at that time Jurn out to be all that safe. On Security Service by the British by refusing to make any kind December 12, at a year later, without the Dr John escaped West with the so that I could keep what he of separate peace called my moslens in the Brülli Russins. They would

not story told here for the first time. Becret Service informed..

bellove me.

No belief

•

"At the end of five weeks of this kind of thing Mikhailov became exasperated and really very angry. What you tell us. he said, 'might be plausible enough if indeed you had come to us of your own free will, but as things are I have now told my chiefs that you should not be allowed ever to return to with the Germany.'

"Well, of course, it was easy for me to get out of this be cause, contrary to the beller of

German some of the

news papers, 1 really never have been a British agent though true enough, I worked British during the war.

L

have been shown the report of a “Soviét· agent now in the West. He teils

of a convČTBA «

tion with a Russian Intelligence

man.

"You," said the Soviet officer to the agent, "are a profes sional at this game of Intelil- gence, not a mere Agurehead and signature signer like

that. ZATO, Dr John."

Quito a nice Vitlo tribute, I

be badly call that.

"I pretended to "I was not nominated for my shocked and most indignant, it West that la the line you are going post as the head of the

-(London Exprene Service),

The Probing Provocative PATRICIA LEWIS

EVER since

80

Freud was explained to me in simple, four-letter words-a week or ago-I've been amazed at the way his theories are upheld in the most unexpected contexts.

Now you'd never credit there whs anything sexy about polities, but when Dr Arthur Schlesinger Jun,, Professor of History at Harvard University, is giving out the brilli- ance of his multi-watt mind, the whole subject #litters with facets

strange and new.

"The crisis that faces

RARE MEETING

WITH AN AMERICAN

REBEL-

AGAINST

WOMEN WITH

the West today is the crials of

lantity" he told-marsringespree of Lho few tallow moments permitted by his current lecture Ferler in London.

In the Halzlies—Arnorisa @dct= governed by a group of pungent personalitica When one of them made a statement it was clour-cut, unmistakably stem- ming from the man who made

ft.

The same

THE

UPPER HAND

DR. ARTHUR SCHLEBINGER. JUNION THIS IS THE ERA OF THE FACELESS MAN..

"The American male used to "The prevent situation is one tholated. alter-tip cigarettes I also admiro Erol's appetite be very confident and unself- of the bland leading the bland. through a holder, which I guess period. His little mud hut was conscious but there are signs But I do vere the symptoms of in O.K. if you can't become a equipped with a gigantic fridge that he is becoming les virilė- now thought-o gathering nun.”-

which opened to reveal a emili and in this i read the signa of of forces, a recharging of

travel-kil version of the delicacy “PSYCHOANALYSIS? I am department at a well-imown "But in the 'files we have an

some crisis.”.

Illeries.

against analysis, along with the West End store. era of the faceless

ali Does the rebel professor think

Church and the Communist Party, because it turns you mainst your folks."

think our wearincas in

the official statements could have the all-powerfu}, almighty drawing to on and the revival been written by the sime American female has anything of mattro in the States is one of

Dersom

1

"It's only from the subject matter that you can tell from which department it emanated." " - Dr Schlesinger, fortyish, bespectacles, and bow-tied in polka-dots, sipped his tonic- water with panache.

"And it's the same with people," he went on." "I recently wrotu an article about

to do with this "crisis?"

The bland.

the signposts..

SO TOUGH

{#

"ROOTS OF HEAVEN" WEL br tho bulldozing

The Boulting Brothers- blood-bound partners in fl production--are, I've discovered, men of principle. To the tune of

£2,000,

on

That was the cost of Q wasted half-day's shooting their w comedy "IT All Right, Jacle-a tare little com- ment concoming trades unions šina expitalista,

Reason the half-day--and the £2,000-was lost was a light. bing strike called by the Associ ation of Cine Technicions.

"The union said we owet them arrears of £92 12s, and, I think, 18. per Boulting head," sold Hoy from the green depths of his new office overlooking Derwick Montour

*Bus in 1053 was deliberately got ourselves suspended because The conflict of loyalties between batting gupinch unionial, and conscientions employers waE becoming Judicrous.”

Protest?

I axlood Boulting, Roy, it bo thought the strike without -warning-bad been a deliberato pri

protist against the theD the picture,

"No" odd "All the -jechalotone mon themeth MCK CZY

wtincintőkil, to um. But I do know that one or two of the maro attremist members, of the unfor would have done a lot to stop us Akning. Of courbe, it bodi sim fumy sibit really was just an incident out of the like script"

The Bouldings have an open- Bive sense of humour. You can buy an awful lot of laughs (or

£2,000.

STARRY

"HUMILITY? Humility “The humour of Mort Sakl, the worst form of ego, Ita the cartoons of Al Cipp, the usually indulged in by people

At a recent party, I was-in-, Steve Allen show on TV, the whic can afford it. "He's a produced sharp, cutting tone of some of wonderful pup-so humble, this DARRYL F. ZANUCK under trigued to see

it was generally admitted the

Renee Kourion showing how Dr Schlesinger chuckled our new musle, end plays it all millionaire,”

toughest conditions ever louth lovellet

“gray-haired” thinking, no doubt, of his wife adds up to

louse up a movie location. Irreverence that I find most and four childrens.

woman can be when she 'la groy baired; healthy."

· “If men and themecives in the the position of being dominated

or free. BIO in

“THE H-DOMD?.... I am not planning a large family any. way?!

And with that--stimulated by ··

yndt

decline in American mascu- by ageressive males it's their à nonno of crisis, a lilac- 'DR FLYNN linity. That again is a search own fault, They wouldn't be if fused about my true identity,

Identity. People

that: Dr convinced know who they are or what

Schlesinger is the only man' to. they are any more.

CHESS

don't there

around.” ~

were

by LEONARD BARDEN

any

ing

I asked him the other day

11. had all been worth The gracious, elegant rulliga while. Darryl F. bit hard on of evening gowns thirt reach, the 111s Sycoon-sized olgar,

floor! known "Frankly,

had whist it would be like I don't

Peter Finch proving that you

cling to ins n shipwreck I Imaginations have been fired think 1 would have dons I can risks the risque-cat Jolso ab of the most proper parties prom I asked this young and walked out into the Lordon, by tales of Errol Flynn scorch ho raspod, "When I think forthright historian who is hozo.

swashbuckling, trail all the lines and discomfort vided you tell it superbly

suffered have to Shelle Sim looking leas writing

through Cuba with rebel lender' thai was A massive political

day' it wasn't worth it - bus padurians in biography

pink miniban of Frankin

Fidel Castre. Roosevelt in ndilition to tesstis

an the over Empire-kulit ladies in the when I see the Bun

help room who, one trintS, WETU |ing at Harvard, if he found zurücta difference in time maliuoks of university students here, and there.

P.SAHLISMS

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