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Posters in Dresden, Halle, Cottbus, Erfurt and Rostock,
which ordinarily are pulled down within a few hours, remained
up for twelve to forty-eight hours. Authorities in each of.
the localities requested the return of their'security police.
from Berlin, but the Berlin SED chief reportedly threatened
to resign his responsibilities .for counter-intelligence and
counter-propaganda if his security forces were. depleted. With
this threat he retained his control over the provincial police.
None of the two hundred forty-eight men who took part
in the operations was caught.
An organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) representative
has stated to a CIA cutout, without-revealing his source,
that he has had recent news from the Ukraine telling of
determined efforts by Soviet security forces to stamp out
resistance. Between January and September, according to the
report, fifty OUN members were arrested. .Underground members
were instructed to discontinue contact with each other. The
"homeland" force wanted to send out couriers but did not believe
- that they would have much chance of getting through.
The NEW YORK TIMES published on its amusement page on 25 September
an announcement from the office of Louis de Rochemont that the producer
had acquired an original story dealing with the current oil crisis
in Iran, written by two young Iranian journalists. As peeviously
reported, the announcement, beamed to the UK and Iran by the VOA
on 26 September, is designed to cover the substantial expenditures
being made by the journalists, who are CIA's two principal agents
in Iran.
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