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...Traube case might have stayed secret had not his employers at Interatom, which manufactures reactors for nuclear power plants, fired him in February 1976. Informed of his risky friendships, Traube's bosses told him that West Germany's controversial nuclear energy program would suffer if word of his social life leaked to the press while he was still running Interatom's program for developing fast-breeder reactors. Not content with a comfortable financial settlement, Traube demanded a federal investigation and instead received a letter exonerating him of any wrongdoing. Nonetheless, he was unable to regain...
After discovering that the "Klaus" who regularly chatted with Frau Hornischer was one of Interatom's leading nuclear experts, Verfassungsschutz agents learned to their alarm that Traube had vacationed for ten days in Yugoslavia in 1975 with Hans-Joachim Klein, another young radical who four months later took part in the kidnaping raid on OPEC ministers in Vienna (TIME, Jan. 5, 1976). Verfassungsschutz advised Interatom of Traube's dubious friendships; they decided against dismissing him immediately on the theory that he might go underground and threaten nuclear revenge. Nine days after the OPEC raid, an agent interrupted Traube...
...publicity, Traube now denies having met any terrorists other than Klein. "Maybe I am a little naive," he said, on learning the bent of some of his friends. He argues that as soon as Verfassungsschutz realized that his relations with them were innocent, the agency should have pressured Interatom to rehire him. Traube is demanding a hearing at which he can confront Interior Minister Werner Maihofer, the man ultimately responsible for the bugging...
...GERMAN ATOM DEALS are cooking. North American Aviation will join with Ruhr's giant Demag construction firm to form "Interatom"; each partner will put up $750,000 at first, and North American will ship reactors to West Germany, where Demag will assemble and sell them. Westinghouse will license Germany's Siemens, No. 2 electrical manufacturer in Europe, to build and sell reactors similar to one now generating power at Shippingport, Pa. Westinghouse has signed same deal with Belgian, Italian firms...
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