Word: franzheim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bogus Honey. Germany has tried to check the third-country gambit by routing all import certificates through the Customs Criminal Institute of Cologne, the only one of its kind in Europe. To ferret out forgeries and check suspicions, the institute's Falstaffian head Dr. Ludwig Franzheim, and his staff have a central smugglers' file of 62,000 names, a list of 7,000 suspicious shipping agents and boat owners, and dossiers on 6,000 unreliable truckers. But, mourns Franzheim, "intellectual smuggling dominates today," and already the smugglers have found ways to beat the tariff collectors by falsifying customs...