THURSDAY, AUGUST 19. 1954
HERALD AND NKWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
PAGE THIRTEEN
Treasonable Flight Of Dr. Otto John To Communist Germany Causes Great Political, Personal Damage
BONN. Germany I) Dr. Otto
. Johns treason to the West is u
) kind of political hydrogen bomb.
In lour weeks since the Bonn
republic's security chief a noted
protege of the British Secret Ser
vice deserted to the Soviet lone,
his explosive case has:
1. Poisoned Allied-German re
lations and strengthened Russian
diplomacy.
2. Shaken the European army
project, which faces the French
National Assembly's crucial vote
In a couple of weeks.
3. Thrown grave suspicion that
all Oerman and Allied intelligence
organizations may contain other
Soviet double agents.
4. Humiliated Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer's government and high
Allied officers, who had worked
here with John for years in top
secret antl-Communlst espionage.
The human suffering from Dr.
John's defection ranges from tra
gedy to trivia:
1. ' Dead by his own hand. U.S.
Counterintelligence Capt. Wolfgang
E. Hoefer Is still a mystery figure.
The German-bom naturalized Am
erican had been John's school
chum in boyhood. He shot himself
when questioned by other CIC of
ficers in Berlin three days after
John's treason.
2. Mrs. Lucie Marlen John, seven
years her 45-year-old husband's
senior, has been left stranded by
him in the West. For her, much
public sympathy is expressed.
3. A half dozen night club cuttes
are bereft of the companionship
of Dr. Wolfgang Wohlgemuth, the
"parlor Boishevik" who squired
John In his car into Berlin's Soviet
sector the evening of July 20
Thrice married, author of a book
on hot trumpet playing and patron
ot Kurfuerstendamm gay spots,
Wohlgemuth has not risked a re
turn to his lucrative Western med
ical practice.
Glib and dapper. Dr., John is
treated as a distinguished guest I
by the Soviet zone regime and ap-1
pears to relish the West's conster- !
nation. He and ex-Fliild Marshal j
Friedrich Paulus, defeated Nazi
commander at Stalingrad, are now j
propaganda pals in tile Red "peace
camp." '
. . Paulus is writing to survivors of
the German officer corps in the
Bonn republic, inviting them to do
their utmost to kill the EDC and
to agitate for reunion with East
Germany on Russia1 term.
Paulus dangles the prospect ot
revived careers for the officers In j
a new yintinnni ... n t i ..
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back to historical periods when
Oerman power In Europe was
based on alliance with Russia. In
telligence sources estimate East
p. . forces at s
ent at 130,000 men.
Dr. John Is expected to become
a weekly commentator on the big
Communist radio station Deutsch
landsender, with his political mes
sages beamed at West Germany.
His song is pitched in a difrerent
key than Paulus', but it :jneans
the same thing for Russia.
He declares, iormer Nazis are
back in governmental power in
Bonn the percentage actually
is less than in East Germany
and that Incorrigible German mil
itarists are plotting with the United
States to attack the Soviet Union.
Dr. John calls on West Germans
to imitate the British, who he says
"are striving to find a modus
Vivendi with the Communist half
ot the world.
And he repeats dramatically
what many of his countrymen al
ready fear if there is another
war, Germany will be obliterated
by . atomic weapons at its very
start. t
The timing of John's treason is
one of its most disturbing features
to Allied diplomats. Closely asso
ciated with the British Secret Ser
vice for 10 years, he bolted east
ward Just when Britain and the
United States had hit a postwar
peak of dissension m their grand
alliance.
Natty In blue suit and wine-red
tie. he appeared last week on a
flower-decked East Berlin stage to
assail what he called the "war
mongering" United States and Its
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Lazy Mailman
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NEW YORK W A lftter car
rier faces charges of destroying
mail by swimming out and
dumping it in the Atlantic Ocean.
Authorities said Joseph J. Mi
chalozic, 31, admitted yesterday he
put the mail in a shoebox and
swam out about a mils off Gilgo
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A lifeguard at Lido Beach, some
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Inside and turned It over to postal
authorities.
Then postal Inspectors traced a
shoe company label on the box to
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ords showing he had received a
package from the company recently-
He was quoted as saying his
wife's suicide after childbirth
and pain from a war injury had
combined to make him too "lazy"
to o'eliver the maii.
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best German friend, Chancellor
Adenauer, to 400 world newsmen.
It was almost the very hour thai
former Prime Minister Clement
Attlee and seven other British la
borltes had chosen to take off on a
flying visit to Red China.
When John spoke ot Germany
destined to become a field of ra
dioactive death If there is war.
his words seemed directed at
Britain as well.
It is acknowledged in Western
diplomatic circles that for many
Britons as for Germans, coexis
tence with the Soviet bloc looks
like the one hope ot survival in the
thermonuclear age. Their island
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