Magda Hassan Wrote:Well, this is interesting...

Carsten Wiethoff Wrote:https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/how-one-reporter-covered-attacks-in-nice-and-munich-with-a-mobile-phone/s2/a658883/


Seems at least possible to me, and at least in Munich he was informed by a text message on his way to work and was on the scene a few minutes later.

Quote:In March 1948, he was appointed as the Lower Saxony Minister of Culture of the Board of the North West German Radio (NWDR) and elected in May as its Chairman. In September 1948, the Board of Directors elected him unanimously as the first Director-General of that time by far the largest broadcasting company in Germany, which until then by the British control officer Hugh Carleton Greene had been passed. His new office joined Grimme on 15 November 1948th In 1952 he was confirmed for another five years as general manager. As the NWDR at year 1955 in Norddeutscher Rundfunk and Westdeutsche Rundfunk was divided, Grimme went to his 66th birthday in pension. He spent his retirement in Degerndorf am Inn. His grave is located on the city cemetery Engesohde in Hannover.

Quote:The intelligence background was probably more important in the sense that after all my father was not at all British in background or education. He arrived in Great Britain after the fall of France because he loathed fascism and so volunteered for the British army. A sense of common struggle against fascism in the Second World War was very important to this whole generation, which to some extent judged people according to and how they behaved in the war. The wartime experience created many friendships. My father knew Frank Roberts, who was the nearest British equivalent of George Kennan as well as John Lawrence, who was the head of the Great Britain USSR association. They all knew each other. Specifically there was that world which we've already mentioned beginning with BBC monitoring service. Like my father Hugh Seton-Watson was in British intelligence during the war. Hugh was my supervisor, Mary Seton-Watson, Hugh's sister, was my father's deputy as the head of Russian Service of the BBC. This was a narrow world in which everyone knew everyone else. It helped that my father was a very fine linguist. He spoke three languages in the age of three and English was his fourth, but he spoke it like Shakespeare.

A key contact for my father was Hugh Carleton Greene who was the director general of the BBC who appointed my father but had known him well through that old world of intelligence in South East Asia. I was born in Singapore because my father was in charge of intercepting and interpreting Chinese communist communications with Beijing during the Communist rebellion of 19481954. Hugh Carleton Greene worked in that same world in South East Asia in these years.

Quote:How convenient.

Quote:Unit 8200 (Hebrew: יחידה 8200‎‎, Yehida Shmoneh-Matayim) is an Israeli Intelligence Corps unit responsible for collecting signal intelligence (SIGINT) and code decryption. It also appears in military publications as the Central Collection Unit of the Intelligence Corps and is sometimes referred to as Israeli SIGINT National Unit (ISNU).[SUP][1][/SUP]

Carsten Wiethoff Wrote:Personally I am not sure that this is significant, but Mr Gutjahr is married to Einat Wilf, a former Knesset member and a veteran of Unit 8200, according to Wikipedia:

Quote:Unit 8200 (Hebrew: יחידה 8200‎‎, Yehida Shmoneh-Matayim) is an Israeli Intelligence Corps unit responsible for collecting signal intelligence (SIGINT) and code decryption. It also appears in military publications as the Central Collection Unit of the Intelligence Corps and is sometimes referred to as Israeli SIGINT National Unit (ISNU).[SUP][1][/SUP]

At least this guy is well connected.