West German scientists and technicians working in Egypt on advanced weapons systems for the Nasser regime, who left Egypt at the end of 1964 when their contracts expired, have been replaced by a larger number of new German experts, it was reported here today from Cairo.
There had been reports last fall that about 125 of the 500 scientists, engineers and technicians planned to leave Egypt at the end of 1964 to take better paying jobs in West Germany. The activities of the West German rocket and aircraft scientists have evoked sharp and repeated criticism from Israel’s Government, and from a wide variety of Jewish and non-Jewish organizations.
Informed sources reported that more than 120 German technicians and engineers had come to Cairo since early December, producing an actual increase in the total number of such West German nationals working on weapons projects. Another report said that 30 of the West German experts came as a group from Stuttgart this month.
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