1961-11-29 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1961.

Soviet bid to recruit U.S. woman as a spy LOVE USED AS A LURE

Disclosure by the State Department

Washington, Nov. 28.

The State Department charged today that a Soviet agent in West Germany, posing as an American, used romance os a lure in an effort to recruit an American woman employee of the U.S. Armed Forces there as a spy.

In disclosing the case for the first time, the De- partment said it happened "early in 1961" and involved a young American woman whom officials called Eleanor "for purposes of the: announcement."

The story was unfolded in a

MALAYSIA:

CONTINUED USE OF S'PORE

BY SEATO

re

London, Nov. 28. Mr Duncan Sandys, Commonwealth Secratury, said today that the cent Anglo - Malayan agreement on Malaysia did not exclude

the use of the Singapore base to discharge Britain's obliga- tions

the Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation.

He was replying to per- sistent questioning by the Labour opposition in the House of Commons on the conditions for use of the Singapore base after a Malaysian federation of Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei had been formed.

After several hours of qu€S=

minutes alone with Paul He told

-Reuter, Fast her he was working a Western intelligence service and was in trouble. Eleanor was

21 - page State Departmenttioning Eleanor was given a few document analysing Communist activity explouage Berlin and East Germany

Romance

in

It suld the strange began when "Eleanor"

in

lory

Viniley the Embassy Club Bonn, There she met a man called

He Pa in the document

naturalised be

claimed to

3

U. S. ciilzen.

*Romance developed, Bid Paul soon began talking of marriage," the document sald,

Soon

Paul afterward moved to West Berlin, A few weeks later, Eleanor received a telephone call telling her that the lance bad been in a serious traffe accident and

wax in an East Berlin hospi- ta)

SULIDUS

taken back to the private horny

Calliere

There a Soviet offered to release Pa she would steni coded Telegrann on US policy from her office

"Eleanor frantically agreed. the document said, signed a statement of obligation to the Soviet intelligence service and was then escorted to the West Berlin

border. Immediately upon her return Eleanor ported the entire matter her superiors."

Identified

The State

to Jurr

re-

to

Angry words

Mi

in Indian

Parliament

New Delhi, Nov 28.

An angry exchange of words

between Prime Minister Nehru

and non-Communist Opposition lenders marked

་་་

arked questions raised

in Parliament today over De-

Department suid fence Minister V. K. Krishna

with instrus active hostility between India

an uvestigation brought out Menon's recent statement iR that Poul was ย Soviet in- Washington that there is no hospital and telligence agent She visited the returned to the Western setortions without mescent. A week later woman into she again went to Berlin to see situation. Full.

"Just before she left the hos-

pital," the State Departmin said, "Paul handed her a pack age cuntainsong Toll of film and asked her to deliver it to his West Berlin landlord, As Eivenor left the hospital she was stopped by the Soviet- controlled East Gennan securi- ty police, arrested and charged with espionage."

She was driven to a private home and, according to the State Department, stripped and searched.

Confronted

Was

The developed im contained of East German mill- pictures tary equipment. Eleanor then taken to Soviet beadquar- lerz In East Berlin where she was confronted with Paul.

He admitted giving her the film, but said she had had no knowledge of its contents.

1

the American and Chiun along the border.

compromising | if 11 Communist Chinese in- cursions is not active hostility The Sorie: officer who offer- What else is?" Socialist Member ed Paul's release was identified. Nath Pai asked. He said, amid as the former Second Secretary, "position cheers "Do you re- of the Soviet Embassy in gard these as friendly, brotherly Washington, Mr Yavgeniy Alek-md good neighbourly ects?" seyevich Zaostrovtsev, who was Mr Nehru rose to defend his asked informally to leave the Cabinet colleague, and said

what Mr Menon had meant was there is no actual war between Indian and Chinese armles

United States in 1959.

The State Department said he had been using East Berlin AR + base for evercing Ameri- can citizens inlo espionagr.

Release of the document was timed to coincide with an an- nouncement in Bonn today of the defection of Gunter i Macnnel, described as a senior officer in the intelligence office of the Soviet zone of East Ger- many.

The

East

Department said Germany's Ministry for State (MFS) has 16,000 Security Communist agents operating in- said side West Germany. It 5,000 of them live there and the rest commute across the border.

-UPI.

"He only meant they are not firing at each other." "Is he not right" Mr Nehru retorted...!

AP

BUILT-IN REMEDY

London, Nov. 28. A local store is offering an deal Christmas present Holiday imbibers - bottle operier with a built-in container for aspirin-UFI.

Margaret's son: David Albert Charles

Bowles warns U.S. against

trade restrictions

Washington, Nov. 27.

Mr Chester Bowles, newly appointed presidential adviser on Asian, Afri-

can and Latin American affairs, warned tonight that "political fac tors of catastrophic implication" would result from a return by the United States to a policy of trade restrictions.

U.K. wants fair

trade

deal

Geneva, Nov. 28.

In remarks prepared for de- livery to a meeting of the In- ternational Association Machinists, Mr Bowles said he could think of no news more pleasing to the economic plan- !ners in Moscow and Peking than to hear that the United States had returned to the re- strictive trade arrangements of the past.

High tariffs

"They would recognise

this

ek-

would soon fall corres- be

headed not only for more un-

the employment but also that further economic and political isolationism of this chief free world adversary would follow Inevitably," Mr Bowles said.

Mr Frederick Erroll, President of the Board of

Trade, said today that Britain should not be as a signal that American asked to liberalise her trade for under-pondingly, that we would developed countries further "at least until others have made a comparable contribution:" from imports, Addressing the conference of textiles is met frade ministers convened by the most of which come from less- General Agreement on Tariffs developed countries.

It had

Britain's and Trade, he sald Britain had

long been reached the point where 40 per policy to afford an open market such countries, and she hoped rent of her "market for enitent

other industrialised would also keep their markets open and try to get rid of re- maining restrictions.

France's

strong

denial

of spying charges

ол

in

Paris, Nov. 28. The Foreign Ministry today issued • second strong and detailed denial Egyption espionage charges against French diplomats arrested Cairo last Saturday. The Ministry communique described accusations In the Egyptian press and the "50- called confessions by two of the a rested mcn as "a tissue of most clumsy lies and falsifica- tions."

The communique went on to deny the charges in detail. It for was untrue, it said, that the representatives of France had been told to form a spy network to discover defence and economy secrets, that they had employed people to this end, that they had facilitated export of Egyptian currency for elgners, had tried to set up a sceret radio station

in Egypt, and that they had printed anti- government leaflets."

London, Nov. 28.

fifth in line

The three-week-old son of Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon -

to the Throne ← has been given the Christian names, David Albert Charles, it was announced here today.

The baby, who took his father's

titlo subsidiary

Viscount Linley, at birth was born on November 3, He was given the name David because both

A BRITISH

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PUZZLE

the Princess and her husband, former society

photographer

Mr Antony Austrong-Jones

"like it very much. Court circles sald David

13

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Was

also

of

chosen because of the Welsh connections Lord Snowdon, (Saint David is the and patron saint of Wales, Lord Snowdon's iffle comes from the name of a Welsh mountain).

David is also one of the names of the Duke of Windsor, Prin- cess Margaret's uncle, who abdicated the Throne in 1938.

Albert was chosen because it

was the first Christian name of the late King George VI, Princess Margaret's

father.

of

and Charles because it is the second Christian Marne Lord Snowdon, the baby's father.

The registrar will call st

for-

Finally, the communique said: it is not only ridiculous, but odious, that the French Govern ment should be accused of plot- fing against the life of the Pre- sident of the UAR and of having. mandated members of the Com- mission for French holdings to: carry out this task."

The commúnique stressed "the extrémne gravity of this affelt."-AFP.

PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE

London; Nov, 28.

The witness was asked why

he was suspicibus of five: men accused of stealing 1,690 car- tons of milk from a truck be- cause they worked in such a "tearing hurry."

"I'm a workman myself." dormally register the birth of witness told the magistrate,

Clarence House tomorrow

when Lord

his son,

Snowdon

will

No details are yet available of

the arrangement

christening-Reuter.

-UPI-

the

Woolwich, Nov. 28. Want ad in a store window:

cleaning."UPI:

for his "Part woman Bequired for

HERMES

U.K. APPROVAL

Mr Bowles recalled the high of the 1930's, the U.S. faris

and unemployment countries mounting

the great depression, and added: "Now the lavistionist peddlers of restrictive world trade are with us epein.

The industrialised nations must continue to try to offer

"If we succumb in 1961 as Lor the expanding markets

we did in 1930, we will repeat primary

of the less- products

the same dismal performance. developed countries, and greater

ime, political factors Only th export earnings for the produ-of catastrophic implications will

Mr Erroll

CITS

said.

themselves,"

be added."

United

Britain, he said, endorsed the The answer to the proposals circulated last night States' future was not more by the U.S. delegation, for restrictions on foreign trade but opening up markets for less- a trade expansion, the opening developed countries.

of new markets at home and Conference sources said one abroad, the encouragement of of the proposels almed at high living standards throughout ending quantitative restrictions the world and prosperity for the on imports from these countries. non-Communist -Reuter

Reuter & AFP.

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