European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday september 29. 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17 chanc6uor kohl.w5 caught your 30rman Shep Harp pectin to w ast. By Kenneth Jautz associated press he spy affairs gripping Western Europe have strained East West relations embarrassed governments and offered a rare glimpse into the murky world of defectors and double agents. The latest development is the defection made Public last week of a senior member of the Kab who is providing Linlor nation to the West about soviet espionage operations in Europe and the United states. Some Reagan administration officials said that the defector Vitaly Yurtchenko also had identified several employees of the Central intelligence Agency As soviet agents. From Oslo to Athens spy scandals expulsions and a trial have brought spy lever out of paperback thrillers and into real life. British officials say the retaliatory espionage related expulsions by Moscow and London have undermined relations Between the two countries. West Germany s spy scandal has Cost the nation s Loreign intelligence chief his Job and threatened the career of the Cabinet minister responsible for internal Security the Greenpeace ship sinking affair in new zealand and surrounding espionage allegations brought about the resignation of French defense minister Charles Herne and the dismissal of the head of France s secret service adm. Pierre Lacoste. Also the soviet Kab announced the arrest of a soviet citizen . Tolkachev for allegedly spying for the Cia. The Kab said Tolkachev a Slaff member at woman , by a land polic. A Cap. Dominique Retour of a. French Ere Erv be. One of Moscow s research institutes gave material to Paul m. Stombaugh who worked in the . Embassy s political Section until he was ordered out of the soviet Union on june 14. The announcement did not say when Tolkachev was arrested. Many diplomatic analysts and Security experts say the spy revelations will not do permanent damage to european Public life. We have always had and always will have spy affairs said Karl Kaiser director of the German society for foreign affairs a private research and study organization. That is particularly True Here because this is a divided the British soviet affair in which each Side expelled 31 diplomats journalists and businessmen began Wilh what British officials hailed As one of their biggest espionage coups in recent years the defection of 46-year-old Oleg a. Gordievsky identified As the Kab spymaster in Britain. Since Early August an equally sensational spy affair involving communist East German agents has humiliated the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany. But Bonn officials emphasize that the scandal in which seven suspected East German agents have been arrested or defected will not permanently harm improving relations with East Germany. The West German spy scandal includes the defection . 19 to East Germany of Hans Joachim Tiedge. The counter intelligence agent once in charge of tracking East German spies. West Germany s opposition social democrats have called Lor the dismissal of Interior Misler Fri Dench Zimmermann for allegedly mishandling the spy affair. Investigators still Are trying to unravel the various threads linking the spies in Europe. Weal German Security officials say n Secretary in president Richard von Weizsaecker s office who was arrested . 24. Had links to an East German couple arrested on spy charges five Days later in Switzerland. In Norway former senior Diplomat Arne Teholt was convicted in june of spying for nine years for the soviet Union and Iraq. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In Greece a greek naval officer and two electronics experts were arrested sept. 15 for allegedly Selling defense secrets and computer equipment to soviet diplomats. While most of the spy fever has something to do with East West tensions French government of president Francois Mitterrand is grappling with an espionage scandal of a different kind. Two French intelligence officers Are to be tried in new zealand in november in connection with the sinking july 10 of the Greenpeace environmental group s ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbor As it prepared a monitoring of French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. The newspaper be Monde of Paris reported first that Herne and top French intelligence officers participated in a scheme to cover up official involvement in the ship s bombing without informing Mitterrand. Herne resigned Ana Locos be was fired after refusing to answer questions about the sinking. Trying to counter allegations of a watergate style cover up of France s Greenpeace prime minister Laurent Fabius reaffirmed last week that neither he nor Mitterrand knew until recently about the involvement of the dose. The French secret service. Fabius blamed Herne and Lacoste for the affair but said it was difficult to determine who specifically gave the order to sink the ship because there was no written
