European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 21, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              The spy who didst come in out of the cold by Sam staff Wriler t1ey still talk about Richard Sorge in when the old Japan Handi get together in the Stag bar of the foreign correspondents club or at Loh Meyer German restaurant near the sooner or later someone will remember the time Sorge walked in with and the clock will spin Back wards to those Days before world War ii in when foreigners were Fol Lowed and the thought police always lurked in the it was in such an atmosphere that Richard probably the most effective spy of world War de spite the Kem Petal thought the legions of counter spies teeming in pit Pearl Harbor Nippon and the govern mental restrictions on All foreigners a Sorge Cut right to the heart of the highest councils of hero Altos gov the Sorge spy currently being told for the first time to readers in the soviet is As bizarre and Tricky As thrillers of the Best no karate Sorge was a a Wenc chasing libertine blessed with a mind of the highest Richard Sorge was a born in Baku in 1899 to a German Petroleum Engineer and a wealthy russian raised from infancy in his life was that of the Ordinary German child until 1914 when he enlisted in the Gor Man army life was harsh for Pri vate he wan wounded three times in fighting on Tho Western ending up with a permanent if slight Bui the Limp didst slow him he took a doctorate in political science at Hamburg Ami at about the same Lime became a member of the German communist he wrote later that he turned to communism because of his lost Faith in Western his disillusion ment in the chaos that was postwar than forgo was Brilliant is his doctorate was won with an i pros save and his writings were widely published he could have become a pro Fessor or writer with but he joined be comintern in 1925 after four years in presumably attend no various espionage he left or the far East to report on the new China that was emerging from the four Prin Caples of Sun Yatsena and on the new chinese Chiang wild he was moderately forming a ring and even daringly planting a radio transmitter in the office of the con jul in Sorge was Lascuna de by the far East and immediately plunged Tato its languages and social systems with scholars skill and a journalists already fluent in Ger Ramanand he added English and Man Darlan chinese to his and he added something that was to be even More important later in acquaintance with the japanese poll Leal writer and China expert Hotsumi Oakl Oakl was an and he hated and feared his country military Croue he was in deep opposition to the Arivs designs on the rest of and he sought to oppose such As a member of the research stuff of the South manchurian railway which acted administrating Ncncy for the he had Access to the most confident Al governmental papers on China As Well at other he was not a november 1964 Moultr spy Richard sort i right i if glorified in film advertised on Moscow billboard communist and indeed never gave the slightest indication of any desire to be come in 1933 Sorge returned from China to Germany for a new moving on to he was assigned by the fourth department of the red army to open an espionage ring in at that time Japan was making motions toward russian which adjoined its occupied area of and the red army wanted to know what was happen ing in Sorge returned to Germany to arrange for a cover Job in Japan and to secure hut Bona fides with the newly emerging nazi he wrangled a cover Job with the Frankfurter Zel Tunis As their far East correspondent the perfect front behind which he could travel and ask joining the nazis was a calculated risk for in the 1920s he had been arrested in Hamburg and booked As a communist he knew that this file still existed somewhere and he could Only Hope that it would not be As weary Security officers around the world keep pointing careful record checks do More to trap agents than All the 007s possibly the nazi record Check want thorough and forgo received his with party membership and a correspondents he was ready or is interesting to note that Sorge was a Good capable had he wanted to he could have been a Success in almost tiny Field he while busily compiling lengthy reports and chasing Down information in surge found Lime to Lite for his for other German political science Journ to pen a to act As unofficial press attache for the Germany embassy in Tokyo and to establish a profitable blueprint firm in Tokyo As a cover fur his radio he was even Able to Send Money Back to Russia from the blueprint company surely a fantastic forgo returned to the fur Kasl in lie was joined by key members of ills Ling in the next two these were de who used a Job with a French news Agency As his de vow Kolitch was u Success Ful newsman in his own right and a care Ful and skillful his activities overshadowed completely by a worrisome German communist with occasional leanings toward the soft life of the he was an expert radio operator and and despite the fact that he was constantly in difficulties with his White russian wife she haled he was crucial to the rings of us Angeles and u member of the communist party and a wandering i represented the working level of group he was the Contact Man with the Small Fry who reported on bar con defense workers gossip and the stars and stripes listened to soldiers on leave the most important member of the was already in he had Many other connections u Well As with the railway giant he we writer for the Suhl one of japans lending papers and he acted As u quasi secret Ury to the Cabinet of Prince thus the ring was Able to work on several different at u times seeking information on japans plans in the far East As they would affect the Sorge who by now spoke fluent cultivated the German embassy and eventually wormed his Way so far in that he became unofficial press he would break Fust with German ambassador Eugen Oil and pass on titbits of news he had gathered from press sources and his own astute in would ask Good nazi Serges advice on cables and reports he was forwarding to As Well As other confidential mat ters dealing with the Berli Tokyo would be reporting on the governments official position and plans us decided in Cabinet gained in his secretarial capacity and Ai a member of Konoye brain of ails information was a magnificent coup for the ring Only a japanese could have worked his Way into the highest councils of the and Oakl was not Only n Good but also an accurate in his would be travel Culf Mufti on pure i u