Word: bonne
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...from the University of Cologne in 1949. He was elected to the Bundestag in 1957 from a strongly Catholic district and achieved the cabinet post of Minister for All-German Affairs in 1962. Married, and the father of one daughter, he has been known as a flashy man about Bonn who drives fast cars, collects modern art, maintains a year-round suntan and keeps trim with daily swims. No longer quite so cocky as he used to be, Barzel is still extremely self-confident, but he knows that he must change his image to win the popular support that...
...North America. In Bonn, Freelance Photographer Heinz Sütterlin wooed and won the plump secretary of a high Foreign Ministry official and sent nearly 1,000 secret papers to Moscow before a defector blew his cover and prompted the ill-used Mrs. Sütterlin to commit suicide. Heinz Felfe, who held a key position in the BND, the West German equivalent of the CIA, for ten years was a double agent who supplied the Soviets with the names of West German agents in the East, codes, dead-letter drops and courier routes. He all but wiped out BND operations...
...sent officers to Washington two weeks ago to ask the Civil Aeronautics Board to intervene in the fare fight. In a complex and involved maneuver, the lines wanted the CAB to ask the State Department to put pressure on the West German government; with that, the Bonn government was supposed to put pressure on Lufthansa to reconsider its new fares (as low as $210 round trip in the off-season...
...victories that der Führer ordered him sent to an insane asylum. Instead, he fled to the Bavarian Alps, and later made a deal with the invading Americans: 50 cases of secret data on the Red Army in return for U.S. financial and political backing for what became Bonn's postwar espionage organization, the BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst). An obsessive antiCommunist, Gehlen helped plot some of the crucial undercover moves of the cold war. But the shadowy chief of German intelligence was forced into retirement at the age of 66 in 1968, partly because two of his aides were found...
...indeed had real evidence Bormann was a Soviet spy. The War Crimes Office in Frankfurt has announced that once the book is published, it will call Gehlen in for questioning, particularly since his intelligence agency was never able to unearth any clues to Bormann's whereabouts. Bonn officials are also studying the possibility that Gehlen may have broken the law by not making evidence in his possession available to the government...