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...killing one man. Schluter's "sporting" weapons, police say, included hand grenades and medium guns bought in Communist Czechoslovakia and destined for Algeria. Schlüter survived that first bomb attempt and a later one that buckled his Mercedes sedan and killed his mother. Frankfurt Gun-Runner Georg Puchert was not so lucky. When he started his Mercedes one morning last March, a bomb exploded squarely under him. Puchert fell dead across the wheel, summoning police by the pressure of his body on the horn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Red Hands Across the Border | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Proud Boasts. Last April Frankfurt's Public Prosecutor Heinz Wolf identified the Puchert attack as the work of a French terror organization called the "Red Hand," and added that "it is highly probable that the Red Hand is an undercover section of French counterespionage." The Red Hand's leader, he said, was Jean Viary, 37, onetime inspector in the French Security Police. And one of his two chief assistants, added Wolf, is a Christian

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Red Hands Across the Border | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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