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Soviet Agents. In 1956, after West Germany had gained sovereignty, Gehlen's organization ended its dependence on the CIA. Gehlen, who was known in the trade as Herr Doktor, enjoyed Konrad Adenauer's close confidence. When Adenauer stepped aside in favor of Ludwig Erhard, Gehlen's standing declined in Bonn, partly because Erhard mistrusted espionage, and partly because of disclosures that two of Gehlen's aides had been double agents in Soviet employ. But Gehlen recovered a measure of his former influence under the Grand Coalition, even though he warned Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger and Foreign Minister...
High Price. A Berliner, Schütz studied politics at Harvard in the late '40s, returned to the U.S. in 1960 to observe the Kennedy-Nixon contest. He helped campaign for Willy Brandt in Brandt's unsuccessful attempt to unseat Konrad Adenauer in 1961. Brandt, who liked Schütz's work, sent him to Bonn as the city's special representative to the federal government. When Brandt became Foreign Minister last year, he brought Schütz along...
...last medicine and physiology winner at Harvard was Konrad E. Bloch, in 1964, for his work with cholesterol...
...repair this communications gap that West Germany's Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger flew to Washington last week for two days of private talks with President Johnson-their first meeting since their brief encounter at Konrad Adenauer's funeral last April. If the conferences did nothing concrete to settle differences, they did provide both Johnson and Kiesinger with a strong basis of personal understanding. Said one White House aide: "They emerged comfortable and confident with each other-and that's a damn big plus...
Died. Hans Anton Kroll, 69, West German Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1958 to 1962, a feisty career diplomat who in 1950 was chosen by Konrad Adenauer to head an East European trade ministry, got along so well with the Communists that he was posted to Moscow, where his ardent campaign for Russo-German friendship grew so distasteful to Germany's Western allies that der Alte finally recalled him; of a heart attack; in Starnberg, West Germany...