'Spies Caught Shoplifting’
(NZ PA -Reuter—Copyright) WEST BERLIN. June B,j An East German husband ; and-wife espionage team has been caught by the West Berlin police shoplifting a bikini from a department store, aci cording to “Bild Am SonnI tag.” The newspaper says that ! the husband looked on as his I wife slipped the bikini into a briefcase, but a sharp-eyed shop assistant was watching. | and told the police. When the case was searched it was found to contain not i only the bikini, but also keys ■j to lockers at a West Berlin :I railway station. i In the lockers were other ■ stolen articles, and forged i passports and identification , [ papers which, according to • ■ police experts, originated jifrom East Berlin’s secret ser(vice.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32320, 11 June 1970, Page 17
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