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Still a Giant. Off the field the friendly, homespun ex-plowboy showed a financial sagacity rare among ballplayers. He earned up to $80,000 a year from the Indians, and on the side coined money from half a dozen other business ventures, even had himself incorporated (Ro-Fel Inc.) in the state of Ohio. He also slipped gracefully into the role of solid citizen, last year headed Ohio's polio-fund drive...
...Vatican Daily, OSSERVATORE RO MANO...
...Germany clam up and try to look blank. For years both Washington and Bonn refused to confirm that the organization existed. But since the Communists themselves took to blaming "Gehlen agents" for acts of sabotage throughout Eastern Europe, enough facts have leaked out to suggest that Büro Gehlen not only exists, but that it may be one of the best intelligence networks in the business...
...rely most heavily on professional intelligence outfits-the U.S.'s CIA, Britain's Military Intelligence, France's Deuxième Bureau, etc. Last week West Germany covertly confirmed what had long been widely suspected: Bonn, too, has its own apparatus of anti-Communist spies. Büro Gehlen, as the Germans call it, is now to become an official arm of the West German government...
Washington does not admit that the U.S. has financed Gehlen's activities (the preferred phrase is that he enjoys a "favorable relationship" with U.S. intelligence agencies). Büro Gehlen's headquarters, a clump of houses surrounded by barbed wire, is south of Munich and not far from Dachau. Outside the main offices the Stars & Stripes fly alongside the flag of West Germany. Gehlen himself stays out of sight. He is married and has four children; he loves fast cars and still has a student's fascination for tricky paraphernalia, obsolete codes and invisible inks. The only...