https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/70636430f1d098f50039d6db6d7107e0.pdf 539941be1aa4c8ae15a5c7be212b2572 PDF Text Text 20 November, MEMORANDUM FOR THE UNDER Dr. Walter • ARY(l_/ Linse • I refer to the request made to you by Mr. Justice Estey, in a letter of November 14, for information concerning Dr. Walter Linse of the Berlin Committee of Free Jurists who was kidnapped outside his house in the American Sector of Berlin on July 8 of this year. The following information is based on newspaper accounts as we have had no recent reports on the Linse case from official sources. 2. By mid-August the United States authorities had made three official protests. The Soviet Control Commission finally aent an answer to these protests on August 20. Their reply denied the correctness of the details of the kidnapping which the American notes had given ·and declared that the Soviet authorities could do nothing more because of the difficulties of investigating what occurred in the American Sector of Berlin. Throughout the Soviet note Dr. Linse was not mentioned by name. 3. A further note from the United States High Commissioner, Mr. Donnelly, brought a reply from General Chuikov in September denying all knowledge of the case. It has been suggested that the Soviet authorities may have ordered Linse to be imprisoned under another name so that they might reply with an appearance of truth that they held no prisoner by that name. 4. The latest information which has 000731 �.. Document disdosed under the Access to Information Act Document divulgue en vertu de lo Loi sur /'occes a /'information - 2 - come to our notice is based on a-report released early in November by Herr Sttmm:, the Police President of West Berlin~ In this report it is stated that the four men who kidnapped Dr. •1Linse have been identified as members of a ring of kidnappers approved, sponsored and directed by the Ministry· of State Security of the German Democratic ttepublic. According to this report Dr. Linse-is imprisoned in the Soviet Zone, presumably awaiting trial. -~ European Division r 000732 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context CDBC00338 Title A name given to the resource "Dr. Walter Linse," Memorandum for the Under-Secretary Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 20-Nov-52 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "BERLIN. Political Situation. Relations between West and East Berlin," RG25-A-3-c, Volume 8506, File number: 10937-40, File part: 2.2, Library and Archives Canada (LAC) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource LAC ATIP A-2024-01457 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Canadian Crown Subject The topic of the resource Berlin Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Canada Declassified Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English