WIDE CZECH SPY NETWORK IN EUROPE
(10 a.m.) BERLIN, Mar. 4. Captain Otakar Feifar, a former Czech Army intelligence officer, who gave evidence under an armed protective guard at the United States espionage trial of three Czechs and five Germans at Munich, told of a wide spy network which the Czechs launched in Europe. Captain Feifar said that his chief job had been to obtain United States military, political and industrial information in the American occupation zone of Germany for-the Czech Ministry of the Interior.
Captain Feifar identified one of the defendants as his agent. A blonde, Gertie Doerre, aged 26. confessed that she was a former German Gestapo agent who worked for American counter-intelligence officers at Hof. She went to work for the German Gestapo in 1942 and was also employed by the German wartime security police in Oslo. She declared that she was beaten in Prague with a rubber hose until she agreed to work for the Czech intelligence service. She' was assigned to get not only United States information but to advise the Czechs of Soviet troop strength in Germany. She gave the Czechs information about the United States planes, equipment and refugee camps.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22887, 5 March 1949, Page 7
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