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...have been the three suspected East German agents who recently vanished. Sonja Luneburg, 61, longtime personal secretary to Economics Minister Martin Bangemann, and Ursula Richter, 52, a bookkeeper for a lobbying group, each disappeared while on vacation this month. A search of the women's modest apartments in Bonn revealed spy paraphernalia such as specialized photographic equipment and a briefcase with a hidden compartment. Lorenz Betzing, 53, a messenger for the West German armed forces' administrative office in Bonn and a close friend of Richter's, vanished last Monday. All three are now thought to be in East Germany...
...Richter, who was already under surveillance by Tiedge's department, is thought to have worked as a control for other East German agents. One of those may have been Betzing. A onetime air-condition- ing repairman at the government's secret wartime operations bunker in the Ahr valley near Bonn, he would have had access to the layout and operations of the facility...
Espionage rivalry between the two Germanys has long been intense. Last year 24 suspected East German agents were arrested in West Germany, and 18 were convicted on espionage charges. For Bonn, the week's events add up to the most serious spy scandal since 1974, when then Chancellor Willy Brandt resigned after an aide, Gunter Guillaume, was arrested on charges of being an East German agent. Says Richard Meier, former head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution: "It is a catastrophe that can set us back years...
...member of the Class of '89 whose journey to Cambridge will take a little longer is Walter Kohl '89, who will fly in from Bonn, West Germany. Kohl, the son of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, could not be reached to discuss his future Harvard career...
...effort to stay several steps ahead of his pursuers, Mengele was apparently helped by Paraguayan Dictator Alfredo Stroessner, the grandson of a Bavarian cavalry captain and a man of pronounced right-wing views. When, in July 1962, Bonn began agitating for Mengele's extradition from Paraguay, Stroessner responded that he could be of no assistance since Mengele was a Paraguayan citizen and was thus protected. Two years later, the West German Ambassador in Asuncion approached Stroessner again with the request for Mengele, only to be told that it would be best to drop the matter...