European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday april 27,1986 . Spy agencies cleared Waldheim in 46, official says United nations not Kurt Waldheim the former . Secretary Gen eral was hired in 1946 As the personal Secretary to Austria s foreign minister because american intelligence agencies said he was not a nazi according to the minister s top lieutenant. But the official Fritz Molden the for eign ministry first Secretary who investigated Waldheim at the Behest of foreign minister Karl Gruber said Waldheim s three years service As a first lieutenant in the Balkans was never investigated. Wald Heim was part of a German army command that conducted reprisal killings of yugoslav guerrillas and deported thousands of greek jews. Molden who also worked for . Intelli gence said the austrian police were not capable of collecting any intelligence data. And How should the americans have known about a minor Man Waldheim is now running for the presi Dency of Austria. In the years immediately after world War ii Austria was intent on rebuilding Molden said and unless a Man was a nazi party member or had directly taken part in atrocities his service was t considered Molden s comments came As Waldheim s son Gerhard Waldheim said in washing ton that a report recommending that his father be barred from entering the United states was misplaced. As far As i m concerned the Bottom line is very simple Gerhard Waldheim said. Kurt Waldheim was not a the younger Waldheim was responding to reports on thursday that the Justice department s chief nazi Hunter Neal Sher had recommended that Kurt Waldheim be barred from entering the United states be cause of his actions As a wehrmacht offi cer. Molden was an austrian resistance fighter who entered the foreign service after serving As a lieutenant colonel in the office of strategic services the american War time intelligence Agency where he was the Liaison officer Between austrian partisans in Italy and Allen w. Dulles the head of the Swiss office of the Oss who was to become the head of the Cia in the 1950s. Molden married Dulles s daughter Joan in 1948. Because of the sensitivity of the. Position Waldheim sought Molden said he asked Oss contacts in Vienna Austria and the . Counterintelligence corps to investigate Waldheim a search that probably consisted of checking his name on lists of nazi party membership. Both Cic and Oss got in touch with us after a few Days and said go ahead. As far As we know this Man is not a nazi " German army records show Waldheim was enrolled in 1938 in two nazi affiliated organizations the nazi student Union and the mounted unit of the paramilitary organization known As the Brown shirts. Molden said that since neither of these groups was considered criminal their Rolls would not have been checked. Molden characterized Waldheim As a Man who is not a hero not the Type of Guy who goes into the he was part of a generation of austrians germans and italians who have sub consciously misled themselves and their own children and the world by pushing a lot of things that happened 40 years ago under the nearest carpet Molden said. In that Era that was considered the honorable thing to do. In a Way we Are guilty for not cleaning up the mess in 1945." just rolling along a photo Eric Hanson and his 11-year-old Golden Spring Day rolling through Golden Gate retriever Captain Jack enjoy a Nice Park in san Francisco. Soviet . Vets meet at another River fhe Chicago Chicago a forty one years after they first met on the Banks of the Elbe River in Germany veterans of the . 1st army and the red army met and embraced at the Chicago River. Three former soviet generals and a re tired american colonel were among the vet Erans who gathered Friday on the Michigan Avenue Bridge to Honor a former private who used to stand there handing out leaflets to passing strangers. Carrying their nations flags the soviets and americans marched from opposite ends of the Bridge until they met in the Center. Then As a Bagpiper skilled taps they dropped wreaths into the River in remembrance of dead comrades including for Best Sellers compiled by the new York times fiction 1the Bourne supremacy by Robert Ludlum 2i la take Manhattan by Judith Kranzl 3a perfect spy by John be Carre 4break in by Dick Francis 5lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor 6the Mammoth Hunters by Jean m. Auel 7lie Down with Lions by Ken Follett 8home front by Patty Davis with Maureen strange Foster 9the handmaid s tale by Margaret Atwood 10high Jinx by William f. 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