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...bugging than are other Europeans. The French National Assembly passed a law forbidding all phone tapping three years ago, but, as Nouvel Observateur notes, "nothing has changed since the law was passed." The government goes right on bugging, with the help of some of the equipment that the Gestapo left behind in 1944. Not only do the authorities tap the phones of specific suspects, but there are permanent taps even on public phone booths in cafes near major ministerial offices. Tapping is limited, according to one expert, only by a "shortage of funds for employing enough personnel to type...
...West Germans, ever mindful of the shadow of the Gestapo, have particularly strict laws governing official wiretapping, and there have been no bugging scandals for a long time. But few observers doubt that in a country that shelters the largest number of foreign agents in Europe, a formidable amount of illegal wiretapping goes on. Curiously enough, all kinds of spying devices are legally on sale in West Germany, but they cannot legally be used or even tested. Some manufacturers protect themselves by labeling their products "for export only...
There is "irrefutable evidence," according to the La Paz district attorney, that Altmann is really Klaus Barbie, the SS captain who ran the Gestapo in Lyon from 1942 to 1944. Among Barbie's crimes were the deportation of thousands of Jews and the torturing to death of several hundred Maquis, including Resistance Leader Jean Moulin. A French military court sentenced him to death in absentia in 1954. Four years earlier, however, Klaus Altmann had migrated from Berlin to Italy to Bolivia, where he went into business and acquired Bolivian citizenship...
...will be a great deal of procedure," says Beate Klarsfeld. "And it will be a long time, if ever, before Barbie gets extradited. There probably aren't any other Nazi war criminals like Barbie hiding in Bolivia or Peru today because they do not have to. The top Gestapo official for all of France, Kurt Lischka, lives openly as a respectable citizen in West Germany today...
...died down in a few days, but a government official (no one is certain who) sent squads of policemen to the campus to break up a meeting on the sub-engineer problem. Outraged by this "violation" of the university, students began taunting the cops with cries of "Fascists!" and "Gestapo!" For good measure, some also threw in two peculiarly Greek insults: pustis, meaning the passive partner in a homosexual relationship, and malakas (masturbator...