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The Swiss have arrested an agent who ddits ito having
operated against Swiss laboratories and itidustries in the
employ of Commander John McMullen, forer Asst. U.S. Naval
Attache in Bern, who studied at the Federal. Technical
Institute in Zurich.. Swiss Military Intelligence reports
that the agent will probably not be prosecuted, since
McMullen is no longer in Switzerland. McMullen' s activities
are considered reprehensible, however, and Swiss laboratories
are being warned against U.S. students.
- 7 Italian Intelligence officers, keysmen in the Italian stay-
behind program, will receive short individual orientation
courses in the United Kingdom this month.: Although the
British have requested absolute secreo on tihis instruction,
OSO has been informed in confidence by repponsible officials-
of the Combined Italian Intelligene Service. Limited
Training Division facilities make it'presently impossible
for OSO to offer similar assistance -to the Italians.
Stressing the extreme delicacy of the matter, the Chief of>
Dutch Foreign Intelligence has requested CIA assistance in
removing from Vienna to Holland a quantity of Dutch stocks
and. bonds lost or stolen during the war and worth many millions
of guilders. The problem is being examined.
Conversations with M. Robert Hirsch of the French Surete Nationale
concluded yesterday with agreement on exchange of reports on
illegal Communist activities with CIA. Hirsch reported that he
refuses to pay an alleged deviationist group of French Communists
for information. He advised also that intelligence coverage of
France under a Soviet occupation .is being studied with the French
Secret Service.
Gen. Endre Zako, Hungarian leader in exile and key f igure:n the
fabrication of intelligence information on Central Europe, has
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