THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
10—Friday, October 3, 1969
Sovietish Heimland Re ports 1st Prize Given to Jewish Dramatists
no play-
LONDON (JTA)—A Jewish dra- fact that the group has
house.
matic group in Kaunas (Kovno),
Alleged Sale of Secret Swiss Plans
The same issue contained the
capital of Soviet Lithuania, won
first prize in its class in a nation- memoirs of the late Peretz Mark-
to Israel Draws 'No Comment'
Jewish poet killed
wide competition conducted by ish, a Soviet
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Switzer- Israel detailed plans for the type drama critics, it was reported re- during the Stalin purges of the
land has not made disploma • ap- of machines needed to produce the
cently in Sovietish Ileimland, a 1950s. But the article failed to say
proaches to Israel over the re r - Mirage III "S" engine parts. Swiss •
ed sale of secret jet engine pl• s authorities were expected to take
to Israel by a Swiss engineer, the a very hard line In the case be
cause of embarrassment. The pro-
foreign ministry said Monday.
The ministry spokesman address- Arab lobby in Switzerland has al-
ed newsmen in connection with ready begun to exploit the alleged
foreign press reports that Switzer- crime, but Swiss newspapers so
land might lodge a protest with far have reported the facts without
Israel the case of alleged indus- comment.
Switzerland. a neutral country
trial espionage. Israeli officials
have so far refused to comment on in both world wars, has often
been described as a hotbed of
the affair.
According to Hans Walder, the international espionage, and the
Swiss generally take a cool, so-
Swiss attorney general in Berne,
detailed plans, model and tooling phisticated view of such alleged
instructions for the manufacture of affairs. Switzerland is the head-
engines for the new French Mirage quarters of several major inter-
Ill "S - jet fighter were stolen national Jewish organizations
and reportedly makes a hand-
from the Sutter plant at Winter-
thur last year and smuggled to some annual profit out of finan-
Israeli agents in West Germany. A cial dealing with Israel and Jew-
43-year-old technical department ish institutions.
The French-embargoed Mirage
head at Sulzer. Alfred Frauen-
knecht, was arrested for the theft V was built to Israeli specifica-
tions.
It is expected that their
and reportedly confessed.
According to Walder, he was place will be taken by the U.S.-
paid $200,000 by the Israelis, who built F-4 Phantom jets which are
began receiving the blueprints in now being delivered.
the fall of 1968. The Sulzer plant
In addition, since the French em-
manufacturers the Mirage engine, bargo, Israel has opened its own
under a license from the French jet engine factory near Jerusalem
firm of Marcel Dassault. The Mir- in partnership with the French-
age III "S" jet is an improved owned Turbomeca Co. of Paris.
version of the Mirage IV "C. -
Israel also purchased an Ameri-
which is the backbone of Israel's can jet engine company which is
combat air force. Fifty Mirage V being relocated near Lydda Air-
jets which Israel purchased from port. Both factories reportedly
France for S200,000.000 two years produce only civilian aircraft en-
ago were embargoed by former gines.
President Charles de Gaulle and
(Foreign Minister Abba Eban of
remain undelivered.
Israel told newsmen here Sunday
Walder said Frauenknecht ad- that despite recent talks at the
milted that he sold 20 crates full
United Nations with France's for-1
of secret plans, records and tool- l eign minister, Maurice Schumann,
ing instructions to Israeli agents no progress had been revealed on
in West Germany through an un- delivery of Mirage jets to Israel.)
identified relative of Frauen.
(Eban was here to address a
knecht who was not an employe fund-raising dinner of the Com-
of Sulzer. Walder described it as
bined Jewish Appeal. He said that
"the biggest espionage affair in he had discussed with Schumann
Switzerland since World War II." issues of peace, arms and Israel's
Swiss government officials said interest in securing a firm position
one of Frauenknecht•s responsibil- in the European Economic Com-
ities was to destroy plans after munity. Over all. the talks with
they were microfilmed. They Schumann were aimed at restoring
claimed that instead, he burned the previously amicable relations
waste paper and concealed the between France and Israel, Eban
original blueprints. models and said.)
some engine parts in crates which
were smuggled across the Rhine
into West Germany by barge dur-
ing the night. Official sources in
Berne said the engineer claimed
he was motivated by sympathy for
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salary but did not disclose the
SAMUEL M. EDELSTEIN,
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helped Frauenknecht also was ar-
rested. The latter was said to have
made his first contact with Israeli
agents in spring 1968.
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Yiddish magazine of Soviet Jewry.
Also mentioned was the Hebrew
The publication carried informa-
Chone Rawnitzki,
tion about the dramatic group writer Joshua
who
was a friend of Israel's poet
which consists of amateurs and
Nachman Bialik,
laureate
Chaim
the
professionals, but it omitted
and the Polish poet, Julian Tu
The articles noted that Rawni
died of old age in Tel Aviv an
Tuvim died in Poland in 1953.
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