Leopold Trepper, the former Soviet master spy, has disappeared from his Warsaw apartment, his son Michael Brodje told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency today. Brodje said he has been unable to reach his father by telephone for the past two days and has no knowledge of his whereabouts. He said he had always been able to reach him by phone in the past.
According to Brodje, his father, who has been ill, may have been taken to a Warsaw hospital against his will. The former head of the “Red Orchestra,” the World War II Soviet espionage network in Nazi-occupied Western Europe, has been repeatedly denied an exit visa by polish authorities in order to go to Israel. His wife, Luba, is currently in Belgium campaigning on her husband’s behalf.
Brodje said his father complained that his telephone was being tapped during their last conversation 4-5 days ago. He did not indicate what steps he planned to take to locate his father.
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