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Bonn agent knew too much’

flees to GDR to save life

By MAX REICH

Pacific Tribune Correspondent
BERLIN—At a press confer-
“ence on October 13 the press
office of the prime minister of
the German Democratic Re-
public presented Stefan Lip-
- polz, an agent of the infamous
Gehlen, West Germany’s Allen
Dulles, and the international
press was offered a glimpse in-
to the cold-blooded planning
and execution of organized
political murder that is Bonn’s
state policy.

Stefan Lippolz had not de-
fected because of any ideologi-
cal motive, he had been run-

-ning for his life, trying to es-
‘ cape death at
the hands of
those he had
served. His
crime? He
knew too
much.
Moving
across Eur-
ope from hid-
ing place to
hiding place,
: he finally de-
cided that the only way to!
save his life was to go to the
_GDR and there surrender.

Lippolz’s story showed that
the worst traditions of the
nazis are back in practice in

Bonn. Not only the same crim-
inal methods, but the same
_criminals who carry them out.

Gehlen is a nazi general who
had the closest associations
with the Gestapo. He served
Hitler in the same capacity he
now serves Adenauer — as a
spy chief and his whole organ-
ization contains the highest
percentage of nazi criminals
and Gestapo agents.

CLOAK AND DAGGER

Here is the cloak and dag-
ger story that typifies the pol-
itical scene in West Germany
in 1961, as related to the inter-
national press by Stefan Lip-
polz.

Incidentally, Lippolz and his
story were carefully investi-
gated by the state security or-
gans of the GDR and he was
further quizzed by the corre-
spondents present at the con-
“ference. © |

-Lippolz was born in 1907 in
-Wolynia, in Russia, where his
father had gone as a German
colonizer.

In 1939 Lippolz returned to
Germany. After the nazi at-

tack on the Soviet Union in
June, 1942, Lippolz received
special training and, because of
his knowledge of Russian, Pol-
ish and Ukrainian, was sent to
the German military command
in Kharkov as an interpreter.

He was captured April 28,
1945, by the advancing Red
Army. Wearing an army uni-
form of the ranks, he could
hide his true identity and was
treated as a simple prisoner of
war. F

After his revease,
that his past might come to
light, in 1953 he fled from the
GDR to West Berlin. Later he
went to Munich where he
opened a beergarden.

LINK WITH UKRAINIANS

The beergarden became the
meeting place of many Ukrain-
ians.

Lippolz, who had made
friends with some, became in-
timately associated with the
Ukrainian emigre organiza-
tions. These organizations had
become a favorite reservoir for
recruiting spies and agents for
the newly established West
Grman secret service, headed
by the Gestapoman and nazi
general Reinhard Gehlen.

At that time a stubborn bat-
tle was going on behind the
scenes between the British se-
cret service, in whose pay a
number of Ukrainian organiza-
tions were, and Gehlen, who
wanted to recruit them all for
West Germany.

To facilitate the subordina-
tion of all Ukrainian groups
under West German influence,
the German-Ukrainian Herder
Society was founded. This so-
ciety was secretly financed by
the Adenauer government.

‘On the other side, the strong-
est plank in the British secret
service system was the impor-
tant Ukrainian society led by
Bandera.

In 1955, -a Dr. Weber( his
real name is. Peter Wandel)
was introduced to Lippolz.

Dr. Weber told Lippolz that
he represented the Gehlen or-
ganization and invited Lippolz
to join. Lippolz got his first
assignment to observe the Ban-
dera organization and its mem-
bers and report on them.
PLOT TO KILL BANDERA

Since Bandera continued to
refuse breaking with the Brit-
ish secret service and submit
to Gehlen, it was decided by

fearing‘

Gehlen to do away with him
and get Vaskovitch and Benza,
two Gehlen men, into the lead-
ership.

Another reason to do away
with Bandera, was that he had
been the co-organizer, together
with Oberlaender—then'* still a
cabinet minister in the Aden-
auer government of the Lwow
pogroms. Bandera, who knew
too much, was considered un-
reliable.

In January, 1957, Dr. Weber
handed Lippolz poison and or-
dered him to put it in Bande-
ra’s food, when Bandera was
eating at his favorite hangout.

Lippolz could not carry out

the order because Bandera’s

bodyguards were too watchful.

On a return visit to Munich
to settle his affairs there Mis-
kiv, who was a close friend of
Lippolz, warned Lippolz never
to return to Munich and to
hide from the Gehlen men.
Lippolz procured faked papers
and went to Austria.

When Lippolz heard in Aus-
tria that Bandera had been
murdered, he though that now
the Gehlen organization would
have lost interest in him, and
so, on Christmas, 1959, he re-
turned to Munich.

MARKER FOR KILLING

In Munich Lippolz looked up
Dmitri Miskiv whom he found
very depressed. Miskiv told
Lippolz that he had poisoned
Bandera and implored Lippolz
to leave Munich because the
Gehlen men were looking for
him an meant to kill him too.

Lippolz fled to Italy, moving
from place to place, but always
found signs that he was being
observed. :

He then fled to Norway.
There he received a_ letter
from Miskiv asking Lippolz to
help him get out of Germany,
because he had a premonition
that something was going to
happen to him. :

Lippolz promised help, then
was shocked to learn soon
after Miskiv had died under
mysterious circumstances.

Lippolz’ illusion that Nor-
way was sufficiently removed
from West Germany to afford
protection was dispelled when
soon after Miskiv’s murder he

found a note in his letter box] -

reading: “You should move.”
Attached to the note was a pis-
tol bullet.

C vil defence in school

instills fear in children |)
-SPREADS IDEA WAR COMING- a

By M. C.

HERE is a deliberate move
T under way by Civil De-
fence authorities .to brainwash
B.C. school children about the
inevitability of a third world
war!

This is quite evident by the
reports in the daily newspap-
ers, from Trail, North Vancou-
ver and the recent B.C. School
Trustees Association Conven-
tion. The latter quite correctly
rejected endorsation of “A-At-
tack Training.” One of the del-
egates, Mrs. Isabelle Reader of
Sooke, said the motion was
negative and contributed to the
idea that a nuclear was is in-
evitable. “I protest involving
our children in anything that
might contribute to this type
of thinking” she said.

Unfortunately, not all adults
have this humane and positive
approach to this matter. Here,
for example, are some of the
recommendations of the Target
Area Central Committee, com-
prising mayors and reeves
from all of the municipalities
in the “Target Area’:

“In case of any warning of
nuclear attack on the North
American continent, all schools
in this target area be closed
and all children returned to
their homes.”

This is further spelled out
in an elaboration of types of
warnings which schools in
North Vancouver will receive.
Here they are:

® A— ALERT WARNING:
meaning that an enemy attack
is probable.

Action—close schools imme-
diately and advise all pupils
that they must go home by the
route agreed upon with their
parents.

@ B—TAKE COVER WARN-
ING: meaning that an enemy
attack is imminent.

Action: same as in Alert
Warning.

@ C—EXERCISE 50: this
exercise, in the instructions, in-
dicates that a phone message
from the School Board secre-
tary or his deputy will be
made, and will indicate a
warning to Civil Defence offi-
ciols to hold themselves avail-
able. The public ‘is not- warned
at this time. :

@_ EXERCISE 100: this indi-
cates a worsening of the situa-
tion in Exercise 50 to the point
where enemy action is possi-
ble.

“The action recommended

[how to bottle uncontaminaté

is: close schools and send chil-
dren home under the guise of a
Civil Defence practice. Public;

is NOT warned.” Pe
HERE, in all its brutalilf
T and callousness,” lies. th®
essence of the approach oe
authorities to our children +*
alarms, bells, exercises in get
ting out of school in a hub
constant tension and fear, feat
FEAR—with the greatest of a
crimes against school child?
being carried out under the
guise of ‘“Defence’—impl
ing the idea of the inevitabill
of another world war! i
What more cruel decept!
could be played against chil
dren and their parents tha
this. Time and again respons
ble people in all walks of rife
have pointed out there is 00)
adequate’ defence against ¥
bombs. No shelter can gue" 4
against direct hits. No shelt@
can provide protection agai
fallout (no one has explainé

air for use during incarcel®
tion in a shelter). ;
Only recently Dr. A+ — 1
Hardman, Canada’s chief © 7
emergency health services ~
Ottawa, stated that Canadas
chances of surviving a massi¥*"
nuclear attack are poor. —
went on to say that in a night
attack, with only 15 minut®
warning, some two millio®
people in the cities will die
1,260,000 injured — 944,000
them seriously. In the face ©
this statement, Prime Ministe!
Diefenbaker’s announceme
that 40,000 hospital beds
to be reserved for this type
emergency is only a gestulé
and points up the futility 2”
uselessness of Civil Defen®
planning.

e [
Outraged parents and othe’
must react quickly to
threat to the welfare and pea @
of mind of their children. ney
should raise this matter EY
unions, -community orgat
tions, and particularly in th
organizations directly concel
ed with children’s welfare. ““
Demand that the approach ©
this question be along the ine
of that of the Sooke delega”
to the B.C. School Trusté
Convention—a_ positive ee
proach, that only peace #
disarmament can _ solve
question of survival. .
Let us work to banish 1%
ever from the minds of all cP
dren everywhere—the fear
war and nuclear attack as &
pressed by one small boy |,
Chicago, U.S.A., who 54
“Please mother, can’t we %
some place where there is?

of

‘Fallout shelters nonsense’

DR. H. KEENLEYSIDE |

any sky?” : :
y SKy |

Dr. Hugh Keenleyside
Dr. Brock Chisholm said
Victoria last Saturday #4 ,
civil defence planning and oe
out shelters are both unreé
tic and dangerous. in

Both men said, after an»
toria civil defence co
tor, Commodore V. S. Godft ;
that civil defence authori
‘were non-sensical. fof

Keenleyside is chairma®
the B.C. Power Commi
and Chisholm was former *”
of the World Health Orga”
tion. é ee

November 3, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pat