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That evening in Berlin, Otto John sought out strange company for one who was head of the Bonn FBI. He drove to the apartment-office of Dr. Wolfgang Wohlgemuth, a busy, prosperous gynecologist who plays a hot trumpet, shares John's interest in woman-chasing, and is known to be a Communist. Sometime that evening, Wohlgemuth sat down at his desk and wrote a note: "The fact is that Dr. John will not return to the Western sector." Then they left together. Curiously enough, John left behind him in his hotel room a notebook that would have been useful...
...three days later, in the afternoon, over East Berlin's radio Deutschlandsender came the clear, firm voice of Otto John, slow at first, then normal: he had defected to "establish contact with the Germans in the East," and because "Nazis are reappearing everywhere [in West Germany] in political and public life . . . West German policy has entered a blind alley . . . Possibilities for German reunification . . . must at least be tried...
...major catastrophe," said an allied intelligence source. Otto John had returned only ten days before from a six weeks' study tour in the U.S., where he talked with CIA Director Allen Dulles; on his way back he had conferred with British security men. Presumably neither had told him the names of any of their agents in West or East Germany, but undoubtedly he had picked up a good bit of information about their techniques and knowledge. London rushed two top agents to West Berlin to assess the damage, and canceled its code for communicating with West Germany. Soon reports...
...could not believe it. "He is absolutely a man of Western ideas." said a Bonn diplomat. "He was against all totalitarian systems, Nazi and Communist," said a Berlin colleague. But whether he had sold out, defected, or had been lured across, the ugly fact was that, voluntarily or involuntarily, Otto John could give the Communists more valuable information than anyone since Klaus Fuchs...
...Otto) Gressens, 56, was elected president of Peabody Coal Co., the nation's second biggest commercial producer (after Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co.). Gressens attended the University of Illinois, remained there to lecture on corporate finance, and in 1926 earned his Ph.D. He joined Illinois' Commonwealth Edison, climbed to comptroller in 1934 and vice president a decade later. In 1951 he joined Peabody, before long was made executive vice president. As the first non-Peabody-family member to become president, he succeeds Stuyvesant Peabody Jr., who becomes board chairman...