Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...darkroom assistant in Dancker's photo shop in Bonn could hardly believe his eyes. Among banal vacation snapshots on a strip of film taken from a Minox camera were nine pictures of NATO documents clearly marked "Top Secret" and "Secret." It took police and the West German Counter Espionage Service four days to identify the owner of the film. He proved to be Rear Admiral Hermann Ludke, formerly deputy chief (early 1966 to mid-1967) of the logistics section of SHAPE, NATO's European command, who was on the eve of his retirement from the service...
...story to claim that he wanted the documents for his memoirs. If so, they would surely have ranked among the dullest ever written, since the documents were merely directives for handling supplies. Nevertheless, he was allowed to go home arid was interrogated only the next day. Because West German counterspies apparently take weekends off, two more days elapsed before the federal attorney's office in Karlsruhe, which investigates and prosecutes treason, was informed of the case.* It took over the investigation, but unfortunately it did not stick close enough to the admiral...
...Ludke, Wendland and Grimm had had access to classified information. One line of speculation suggested that extensive security checks launched in sensitive departments after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia might have frightened enemy agents into suicide. Bonn admitted last week that toward the beginning of October, after one East German agent had been arrested, six others fled West Germany. But it did not tie them to the admiral. By week's end the Ludke case remained open-and with it lingered the specter of a major and painful espionage scandal...
...never came close. Gasping in the thin air, every muscle rubbery with fatigue, Toomey led all but a few strides of the way and drove to victory by 30 yds. Final score for the ten events: Toomey 8,193; Bendlin 8,064-a total that dropped the West German to third, behind his countryman Hans-Joachim Walde, who had also run a faster 1,500. "That was the worst competition I've ever been in," said Toomey. "I've never had to endure anything so intense. They shouldn't call this the Olympic Games...
Money in the Shoes? No Olympics would be complete without a scandal, and this time the rhubarb involved alleged under-the-table payments to U.S. and foreign athletes by rival German track-shoe manufacturers. Rumor piled on rumor: stories told of payoffs ranging as high as $6,500; officials were said to have canceled checks to prove that bribes were paid; several U.S. medal-winners were reported guilty. But rumors the stories remained after the U.S. Olympic Committee investigated and announced that it could find "nothing to substantiate" them...