The draft of a bill to require express Government permis-sion to West German nationals to participate in overseas work on certain types of weapons and rockets has been completed for submission to Parliament, it was disclosed today.
The draft was prepared by a Parliamentary commission representing the three West German political parties. The permission would be required for such work on atomic, bacterial and chemical weapons and on rockets and violation would be punishable.
The bill was aimed at the work of West German scientists and technicians on Egyptian advanced weapons systems, though the West German Government has formally denied that its nationals were working on A-B-C weapons. Previously, it had been reported that efforts to write such legislation had been abandoned because of doubts as to its constitutionality.
Meanwhile, Der Spiegel, a leading German news magazine, carries a report in its current issue stating that nearly 500 “well-paid German technicians” are engaged in Egypt on that country’s development program for Jet planes and rockets. The magazine traces the development of the Egyptian armament program with German help back to 1950 when, it reported, “the first 100 Germans arrived on the Nile.”
Detailing the German personnel employed on the armament program by the Egyptian Government, the magazine goes into particulars about the Germans employed by the Cairo regime since 1960. It stresses that some of the Germans in the Egyptian employ consult regularly with Dr. Hans Eisele, an ex-Nazi accused of war crimes, who fled from Germany in 1958 when he faced arrest and prosecution for his war crimes.
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