MIDDLE EAST TROUBLE FOR 333 OUTSIDE CAIRO SPRAWLS A RAMBLING COMPLEX OF 
BUILDINGS KNOWN AS MILITARY FACTORY 333 . THERE PRESIDENT GAMAL ABDEL 
NASSER IS TRYING TO DEVELOP THE POWERFUL WEAPONS SYSTEM HE NEEDS 
TO ENSURE MILITARY SUPREMACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST . FROM 333'S 
WORKROOMS LAST YEAR CAME THE FIRST BATCH OF MISSILES, A FEW 
230-MILE EL-ZAFIR (VICTORY) TYPES, AND THE 370-MILE ELKAHIR (CONQUEROR) . ALTHOUGH 
THEIR RELIABILITY IS NONE TOO CERTAIN, THE MILITARY LEADERS OF NEARBY 
ISRAEL HAVE NERVOUSLY NOTED NASSER'S CLAIMS THAT EGYPT'S BIRDS WILL HAVE 
THE RANGE TO BLAST IMPORTANT TARGETS " JUST SOUTH OF BEIRUT 
" THAT IS, IN ISRAEL ITSELF . MYSTERIOUS MISFORTUNES . HENCE 
ISRAEL'S EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST IN THE KEY MEN WHO STAFF FACTORY 333 
. THEY ARE NOT EGYPTIANS AT ALL, BUT AN ESTIMATED 200 
GERMAN SCIENTISTS AND TECHNICIANS, MANY OF WHOM FIRST LEARNED THEIR SKILLS 
MAKING V-2S FOR ADOLF HITLER . EVER SINCE THE GERMANS HELPED 
NASSER TEST-FIRE HIS FIRST SUCCESSFUL ROCKETS LAST JULY, ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE CHIEFS 
HAVE BEEN CONDUCTING A DEADLY UNDERGROUND WAR TO FORCE OR FRIGHTEN 
THE GERMAN SCIENTISTS AWAY FROM THE PROJECT . LAST MONTH TWO 
ISRAELI AGENTS WERE ARRESTED IN SWITZERLAND AFTER THEY ALLEGEDLY PUT PRESSURE 
ON THE SON AND DAUGHTER OF DR . PAUL-JENS GOERCKE, A 
WEST GERMAN ELECTRONIC-GUIDANCE EXPERT EMPLOYED AT MILITARY FACTORY 333 . AS 
SWISS POLICE TOLD IT, THE AGENTS PERSUADED HEIDI GOERCKE, 25, AND 
HER BROTHER HANS, 21, TO CROSS THE FRONTIER FROM FREIBURG, GERMANY, 
AND WARNED THEM THAT THEY MUST TALK THEIR FATHER INTO COMING 
HOME FROM EGYPT OR ELSE HE WOULD FACE " SERIOUS " 
TROUBLE . EAVESDROPPING ON THE CONVERSATION, FOREWARNED SWISS DETECTIVES TOSSED THE 
ISRAELI OPERATIVES INTO JAIL, CHARGED THEM WITH COERCION AND OPERATING ILLEGALLY 
ON BEHALF OF A FOREIGN STATE . THE INCIDENT RECALLED A 
WHOLE CHAIN OF MYSTERIOUS MISFORTUNES THAT HAVE BEFALLEN GERMANS LINKED TO 
EGYPT . LAST SUMMER THE PRIVATE PLANE OF AN EGYPTIAN SUPPLYING 
ARMS AND TECHNICIANS BLEW UP OVER NORTHERN GERMANY, KILLING HIS WIFE 
; IN NOVEMBER TWO AIRMAIL PARCELS ADDRESSED TO GERMAN ROCKET ENGINEER 
WOLFGANG PILZ BLEW UP WHEN OPENED IN HIS OFFICE IN EGYPT, 
KILLING FIVE EGYPTIANS AND DISFIGURING PILZ'S GERMAN SECRETARY . THEN, ON 
A ROAD NEAR THE WEST GERMAN TOWN OF LORRACH, A WOULD-BE 
ASSASSIN FIRED A PISTOL SHOT A A PROFESSOR ENGAGED IN ELECTRONICS 
RESEARCH FOR EGYPT ; THE BULLET MISSED AND THE WOULD-BE ASSASSIN 
ESCAPED IN A CAR . BIGGEST UNSOLVED RIDDLE IS THE WHEREABOUTS 
OF DR . HEINZ KRUG, 49, BOSS OF A MUNICH FIRM 
THAT DEALT IN MILITARY HARDWARE FOR EGYPT . LAST NOVEMBER, KRUG 
VANISHED FROM HIS OFFICE IN THE COMPANY OF A POLITE STRANGER 
AND HAS NOT BEEN SEEN SINCE . BACKTRACK IN BONN . 
TO CHARGES THAT ISRAEL IS BEHIND THE INCIDENTS, ISRAELI AUTHORITIES INSIST 
THAT THEIR AGENTS EMPLOY ONLY PEACEFUL PERSUASION . ISRAEL'S FOREIGN MINISTER 
GOLDA MEIR ROSE IN THE KNESSET (PARLIAMENT) FORTNIGHT AGO TO BRAND 
GERMANS IN EGYPT AN " EVIL CREW . " SHE DEMANDED 
THAT WEST GERMANY ORDER THEM TO HALT THEIR WORK . BONN 
RETORTED THAT THE GERMANS IN EGYPT WERE PRIVATE CITIZENS WITH NO 
OFFICIAL CONNECTIONS WHATSOEVER ; THE GOVERNMENT COULD HARDLY DICTATE THEIR PROFESSIONS 
. BUT ANXIOUS TO STAY ON GOOD TERMS WITH THE ISRAELIS, 
CHANCELLOR KONRAD ADENAUER LAST WEEK AGREED TO RECONSIDER THE MATTER, ORDERED 
FORMATION OF A COMMITTEE TO DECIDE WHETHER SOME KIND OF CONTROLS 
SUCH AS REMOVAL OF PASSPORTS SHOULD BE IMPOSED ON GERMAN CITIZENS 
WHOSE WORK ABROAD ENDANGERED THE NATION'S GOOD RELATIONS WITH ANOTHER COUNTRY 
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