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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 10
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ee DUSSELDORF, Germany. You would expect that ritlsh Intalligence officers would intercowd —.
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bad come to the West to preach:
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at Sresent visiting hia moth. ‘ : . potey, with regard to Germany was
‘er in West Germany and therefore 4 rmany's demilitarisation and de
vallabie for questioning? . i s jazification,
But vo far no British Intelligence : ) | @ How the German People's Po-
bothered 52-year-old : Bos Army had been formed in East
Baron Wolfgang ra Bo in his *e Germany purely as an answe:
Cologne hotel, Dr. Otte John, £ R to West German rearmament. ‘Thi
headot ‘of the German Security Serve > id Would be aicoanded at once, he sal
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