Bonn Industrial Spying Alleged
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) BONN, January 22. A West German Parliamentary deputy said yesterday that the three Western allies in West Germany were misusing their right to intercept mail and telephone calls by conducting industrial espionage.
The newspaper “Bild am Sonntag” quoted Mr Martin Hirsch as saying: “When calls and mail are intercepted, something seeps through to American industrial concerns too.” Mr Hirsch, deputy chairman of the Social Democratic Parliamentary Party, said the espionage was aimed more at business relations than inventions.
The Bonn Government recently tabled a controversial law to give it special powers in an emergnecy, including
telephone and mail interception. Britain, France and the United States have said they are satisfied with the proposed law, which would finally end the reserve rights they maintained after West Germany became independent in 1955. Mr Hirsch, a prominent supporter of the bill, said the allies could continue asking for information on security questions. "But they cannot come and say: ‘We would be interested in knowing about the business relations of the German firm X with Indo-China,’ ” he said
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31584, 23 January 1968, Page 11
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