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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 01, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday june Hoover warns of increase in red China spies Washington Nana  Hoover is worried that increased numbers of chinese immigrants authorized by con Gress three years ago carry the potential for introducing More peking agents into this country. The Fri director says that the communist chinese have mounted a concerted Effort to obtain highly sensitive data for their  says two individuals have been forwarding electronic components to be used in a variety of military equipment through an intermediary in Hong Kong while other strategic information has been fun need to peking through individuals in european countries. The new China news Agency with an office in Canada serves As a base for chinese communist propaganda while posing As a legitimate new gathering of fice according to the Fri chief. Hoover notes that an Amend ment to the immigration Law in the fall of 1965 permitted up to20,000 chinese to enter the United states annually and17,210 did enter in 1966. He con ceded that the vast majority presents no problem but also cited the espionage potential. Hoover has told the House appropriations committee in closed door testimony that the Tempo of espionage directed against the United states i continually increasing with significantly stepped up drive from Castro s Cuba and from red  he noted an expansion of official personnel from the soviet Union assigned to the unite states most with intelligence assignments. The result is More intelligence operations than Ever before he said. Hoover cited the testimony Ofa soviet defector that about 70 to 80 per cent of the 928 official personnel of the soviet bloc Here on Jan. 1 were assigned to intelligence work not counting some of the 1,260 dependents. Another Challenge once toasted in Moscow de Gaulle s now roasted protest at state Capitol Georgia gov. Lester Maddox declares a 24-hour period of mourning after lowering flags to half staff in Atlanta and placing a Black draped copy of the . Constitution at the base of the flagpole. Maddox is protesting the . Supreme court decision striking Down Freedom of Choice school attendance plans which he favors. Dpi photo Paris up the Long honeymoon Between Moscow and president Charles Degaulle is Over. The general threw Down the Gauntlet when he declared War on the French communist party thursday. The Kremlin lost no time in hitting Back. It was Only two years ago that de Gaulle was feted in Moscow As no Western Leader had been since the revolution 50 years ago. Friday pravda the official party Organ in mos cow All but called him a sup Pressor of the masses. Pravda charged de Gaul Lewith launching an anti communist witches Sabbath ignoring the demands of 10 Mil lion workers who Are on strike. The unusually Swift so Viet reaction and the severity of the attack on de Gaulle Sig naked not Only the end of a Friendship but also coming trouble. The Kremlin had seen Degaulle As the Man who weak ened the North Atlantic Alliance and America s position in eur  could have been More Welcome in the councils of the soviet leadership. To the soviet policy makers he Wasa Windfall. When de Gaulle visited the soviet Union he was Given Spe Cial treatment rarely afforded to any visiting statesman let alone to a Western Leader. De Gaulle appeared tothe russians As the incarnation of anti americanism Andall that goes with it. De Gaulle s frequent pronouncements against american policy in Vietnam fell on receptive Earsin the Kremlin. Despite these outward signs of cordiality the soviet Leader ship remained cautious. It did not involve itself in any formal alignment with  became uneasy when de Gaulle began to prop Agate his thesis of a Europe from the Atlantic to the urals in Public addresses in Russia backyard of East Europe but the Kremlin shrugged it off Athirst. Last month de Gaulle s renewed Call for a Europe from the Atlantic to the urals his encouragement to Bucharest Leader Nikolau Ceausescu s go it alone policy and his Strong endorsement of Czechoslovakia s Freedom struggle caused growing resentment in  the Kremlin kept silent even when the first signs of unrest developed in France. Only after some hesitation did mos cow mention without comment a week ago that a threat was developing in France to the leadership of de Gaulle. Now the kid gloves have come off and to judge from soviet tactics in the past the have Conie off for Good. The Kremlin has disowned de Gaulle. The honeymoon is Over. The nagging is certain to develop fast into outright hostility. Army testing k copter borne . Sniffer " Washington is a though earlier attempts at spol Ting Viet Cong ambushes with the help of cockroaches Andl other Tricky devices have met with failure the army in to giving up and now reports test Ling a new helicopter borne people sniffer in Florida. I the idea of selecting hidden Viet Cong and North Vietnam Lese forces in South Vietnam by turning their body odor and perspiration to Good use was revealed monday in testimony Pyl col. Thomas w. Mellen of army research and develop a ments to a House armed serv ices subcommittee. The army has been working on the troublesome am problem for some time an tried a ground detection sys-1 Tern without Luck. Now it Elleves that by mounting the de vice on helicopters if of work. The system consists a series of converters an observer s graphic display and tie Pilot s indicator scale All Ungry flexible Hose to an air make scope below the helicopter. The helicopter then flies Over an area suspected Ofine enemy forces. Once Friy , com at its highest t has theorem by potted a Viet Conga be army " uld noun further details because Security. European edition col. James w. Campbell Usa it. Col. F. S. Michael jr., Usan m Ert Proctor production Elmer d. Frank circulation Henry 6. Epstein an unofficial newspaper of and for the . Armed _ commander in chief . European command Ana a International Germany. Military a Drew the Star and stripes a Ute. Arle Ihei the Star and stripe.,  1034, Al Darmstadt. Germany to prefix 06155 2071 m   pro or. Area code 212 York office 641  st., new York 10014, ii. � of i play second Cla. Postage paid at new York . The Pong Doeg not co menu in thu newspaper concerning commercial pure Jug c0niponent nor ement by the department of defence or any i Tia we ffiepe0f/the United states is an open society in in to know in cherished and  i resent 0  
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