I.R.A. denies kidnapping
[ (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) BONN, Jan. 16. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army has told a West German television correspondent it was not responsible for the kidnapping of a West German businessman, Mr Thomas Niedermayer, xvho disappeared from his Belfast home 18 days ago. A spokesman for the television station said that one of its correspondents in London had interviewed Provisional I.R.A. officials by xvay of an unnamed contact man in Belfast, and the denial had been issued in this way.
The news was broadcast in the station's evening bulletin. Mr Niedermayer is chief Northern Ireland executive of the West German electronics firm, Grundig. A spokesman at the company’s headquarters in Fuerth, near Nuremberg, said Grundig xvas making its oxvn inquiries into Mr Niedermayer’s disappearance. The West German business, man is also Bonn’s Honorary Consul in Ulster.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33435, 17 January 1974, Page 15
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