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...inside its borders, has long been considered NATO's weakest security link. But even the most cynical were soon fascinated, for Ludke's death marked the beginning of an astonishing wave of suicides among government officials. On the day of Ludke's death, Major General Horst Wendland. 56, deputy chief of the Federal Intelligence Service, Bonn's equivalent of the CIA, shot himself in his office. The government explanation: he was despondent over an "incurable depressive illness." On Oct. 15, a promising young official in the Economics Ministry hanged himself. On Oct. 16, a woman working...
Died. Major General Horst Wendland, 56, No. 2 man in West Germany's Federal Intelligence Service; by his own hand (he shot himself three months after learning he had an incurable disease); in Pullach, West Germany. Quiet and unassuming, "the house father," as his staff called him, was an able administrator who supervised the service's more than 5,000 employees and directed its intelligence training...
Freshman Swimming.--Winthrop Hallowell Churchill, of Milton; Reginald Forman Brander, of New York, N. Y.; Bernard Sheridan Cogan, of Stoneham; John Walter Friedlander, of Cincinnati, O.; Phillips Wendland Goodell, of Loda, Ill.; Richard Dana Gross; of Roxbury; Alexander Douglas Knox, of Cambridge; Arthur Webster Morse, of Boston; William Frissell Wyman, of Augusta, Me.; and Harry Ranger Mack, Manager, of New York City...