Israeli Spies Reveal Their Egypt ian Adventures
For nearly five years, Is- months later, during a trip
raeli spy Wolfgang Lotz to Europe, he met a young
broke all rules of espionage German woman whom he
while gathering information married almost immediately.
about Egyptian military in- The Lotzes returned to
stallations and maneuvers. Cairo where Wolfgang con-
He describes his adventures tinued his work with his wife
in "The Champagne Spy," Waltraud's help. They were
to be published by St. Mar- easily accepted into Egyptian
tin's Press, Nov. 14. high society and Waltraud
Using his real name and often threw small, informal
genuine German passport parties where Wolfgang
(and concealing his Israeli gained important information
citizenship), Lotz moved to through casual conversa-
Cairo in 1961 to set up a tions with his new friends.
horse-breeding farm. He flat- The Lotzes' greatest ac-
tered the Egyptian officials complishment was the veri-
and their German military fication that the Shaloufa
advisors by bringing them rocket site near Great Bitter
hard-to-obtain gifts such as Lake on the Suez Canal was
washing machines, cameras genuine and not a dummy.
and tape recorders. A few Posing as lost tourists, they
Ecological Dangers Seen
in Administered Areas
blatantly drove into the re-
stricted area to get a first-
hand look. They were arrest-
ed, but immediately released
because of Lotz's friendship
with high-ranking army of-
ficers.
In 1965, Lotz's radio sig-
nals to Israel were moni-
tored and both he and his
wife were arrested, tried and
imprisoned. Lotz escaped. the
death sentence because the
Egyptians still believed he
was a German citizen.
Forest Hills Arson Is Condemned by ADL; Building Aid Urged
NEW YORK — The Anti- walk. According to other re- York Board, in asking the
Defamation League of Bnai ports, a sign reading "Kill community to help rebuild
Brith condemned the arson all Jews and Niggers now" the church, said "it is not
of a Forest Hills interracial was posted on a building enough to deplore the racial
church and called for the im-
mediate formation of a com-
munity-wide committee to
fund its rebuilding.
The 46-year-old church
building on 70th Ave-
nue, occupied since last
August by the Local Christian
Assembly Congregation, was
ravaged by fire this week.
Swastikas were scrawled on
the back and side walls of
the building and "Nigger Get
After the Six-Day War, the Out, This Is A Warning,"
Lotzes were traded back to was painted on the front side-
Israel for more than 4.000
Egyptian prisoners of war,
but Lotz did not identify him- •
self to the press as an Israeli • TABAK
citizen until 1970.
OPENING SOON . 1
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THE DETROIT JEWISH HEWS 1
Friday, Nov. 3, 1972-13 in
NORTHLAND CENTER I
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The possible ecological impact
chairman of the Knesset's nad about the rise in the
ecology committee has com- number of stone quarries on
plained that industrial devel- the West Bank from 150 to
opment in the administered 500 in the past five years.
territories is threatening ser- Four engineering profes-
ious environmental damage. sors from the Technion and
Yosef Tamir, expressing the Nahal Sorek atomic re-
his concern in a letter to De- search laboratory agreed at
tense Minister Moshe Dayan, a meeting of the ecology
charged that industrial devel- committee that anti-pollution
opment in the Golan Heights laws would never be effec-
has been undertaken without tive until they were the re-
expert opinion on the envir- sponsibility of one depart-
onmental impact in the ment instead of 14 ministries.
heights and on Lake Kineret
in Upper Galilee.
Bible Week Luncheon
He also complained of air to Launch Events
pollution by military vehi-
NEW YORK — Richard I.
cles with faulty exhaust sys- Fricke has been named gen-
tems.
eral chairman of the Nation-
Tamir disclosed that Day- al Bible Week Luncheon
an promised in a reply to scheduled for Nov. 17 at
his letter to take up the mat- the Hotel Pierre.
ter of vehicular pollution
The luncheon will inaugur-
with the chief of staff but ate the 32nd annual inter-
said the other problems were faith Bible Week, Nov. 19-
the responsibility of the reg- 26 and will honor the 1972
ular government depart- national chairman, Dr. Paul
ments. W. McCracken, graduate
Tamir had expressed con- professor of business aclmin-
cern about' a huge formica istration. University of Mich-
plant being planned near igan. and former chairman
liebron with no study of its of the Council of Economic
A Unique Chief Rabbi
JERUSALEM (JTA)- -The
new Ashkenazi chief rabbi,
Shlomo Goren, is the center
Advisers
Luncheon co-chairmen in-
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of many colorful stories, in-
cluding the one about his
journey to Mount Sinai after
the Six-Day War to compose
a Torah.
During the mcments pre-
ceding the balloting for chief
rabbi, when the four candi-
Michigan is fourth among
dates were seated next to the 50 states in production
each other, only Rabbi Gar- of six crops: asparagus,
en was busy praying, hold- grapes, snap beans for pro-
ing a miniature prayer book cessing, spearmint, strawber-
in his hands, ries and sweet cherries.
and religious bigotry which
seems to have motivated this
attack on a House of God."
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