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Stern stuck stubbornly to its story. The magazine's claims drew heavily on the reputation of Cambridge Historian Hugh Trevor-Roper (The Last Days of Hitler), a director of the Times Newspapers Ltd. He examined some of the books in a Swiss bank and wrote...
According to the London Times, chemical analyses of the paper and ink were then conducted. Wrote Trevor-Roper, the author and editor of several books on Hitler: "When I had entered the back room in the Swiss bank and turned the pages of those volumes, my doubts gradually dissolved. I am now satisfied they are authentic." Trevor-Roper says that notes pasted on many of the diaries' covers state that they were the personal property of the Führer and that in the event of his death, they were to be given to Julius Schaub, his longtime adjutant...
...seemed to be a glaring example of the West's inability to keep sensitive high technology out of the hands of the Soviets. Last March, Favag S.A., a Swiss electronics firm, ordered two machines used in the production of microcircuitry from Perkin-Elmer Corp. of Norwalk, Conn. After receiving guarantees that the equipment would not fall into Soviet hands, the U.S. Government approved the sale. Favag, however, promptly shipped the machines to a second Swiss company, Eler Engineering, which is reported to be a channel through which East bloc countries obtain Western technology...
...embassy discovered the subterfuge, and the commercial attaché in Bern intercepted the machines in France while they were en route to Moscow. Cooperating with the French counterintelligence service, he short-circuited the wiring and removed vital parts, reducing $500,000 worth of equipment to electronic scrap. But Swiss authorities warn that the scam may have a different twist: accounts of the CIA's role might have been planted by the KGB to reduce Western anxieties about the wholesale theft of technology by the Soviets...
...take over security functions from the Lebanese Forces, the Phalangist-led coalition of Christian militias, the troops managed the 2½-mile deployment without a hitch. But their chow did not arrive until 18 hours later. Says a senior U.S. official: "The Lebanese army is like a block of Swiss cheese. A lot of it is solid, but you run into holes in surprising places...