General denies being gay
NZPA-Reuter Bonn A West Germany general dismissed from a top N.A.T.O. because of lack of trust said at the week-end that photographs and other evidence reported to prove him to be an active homosexual must have been forged.
General Guenther Kiessling, aged 58, had been told in October to retire from his post as N.A.T.O.’s Deputy Supreme Commander in Europe, the Defence Ministry disclosed last week.
The official reason given was that the Defence Minister, Mr Manfred Woerner, after a talk with the general, felt that the necessary level of trust no longer existed between them. West German press reports said that General Kiessling’s career had been ended by police and coun-ter-intelligence surveillance of visits to homosexual nightclubs in Cologne, Berlin, Essen, and Duesseldorf, which had made him a security risk. General Kiessling, said to have been confronted with the 50-page dossier in Mr Woerher’s office, has denied any homosexuality. He told the newspaper “Welt am Sonntag” yesterday that the evidence either had been forged or it was a case of mistaken identity.
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