K.G.B. link in disappearance?
j NZPA-Reuter Karlsruhe] ' The German justice authorities have said they, suspect the Soviet secret’ police, the K.G.8.. of kidnapIping a former Soviet Olymipic canoeing champion who vanished in West Germany (last month. Vladas Shessiunas defected during the world; canoe championships in' 'West Germany in August and asked for political asylum in West Germany. A month after defecting ; (he vanished without trace. A Federal public proseIcutor, Mr Kurt Rebmann, (said in a press statement •
| that he had opened criminal proceedings against unknown persons on suspicion .of kidnapping Shessiunas. The 39-year-old Lithuanian was last seen on September 13 outside a school where he was learning German. The prosecutor said there were certain indications that he had been abducted by the ; Soviet secret police and forced to leave the country against his will. Witnesses had been interrogated, but he declined to give details. Shessiunas won a gold' medal at the 1972 Olympics ■in Munich in a two-man I canoe event.
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