There are still some 20 or 25 West German engineers and technicians at work in Egypt on Nasser’s rocket program, and they work “under American management,” Dr. Alfred Seidel, attorney for the Social Union Party of Bavaria, said here today.
Dr. Seidel, who has appeared as defense counsel for a number of Nazi war criminals, is also the lawyer for some of the leading German scientists employed until recently by the Egyptian Government’s projects for development of missiles and rockets.
All of the top German scientists, he said, have left Egypt. But those who remained are still at their jobs, he stated. Dr. Seidel is the legal representative, in Cairo, for some of the top German scientists who had come back home. He is very active in the political work of the Social Union Party, which is the South German branch of the dominant Christian Democratic Party.
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