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Hitler wanted to be a painter
LONDON : Two paintings believed to be the work of Adolf Hitler, were sold on Wednesday to an anonymous telephone bidder at an auction in northern England, reports Reuter.
The Pastel pictures of flowers, signed "A Hitler" and dated 1901 and 1911, fetched a total of 3,100 pounds sterling (5,300 dollars), auctioneer Andrew Hartley told reporters.
Christies auction House in London authenticated the painting as the work of Hitler but declined to handle the sale.
Hartley said it was not unusual for paintings by Hitler to come up for sale. They are of historical and sociological interest because of who the artist was," he said.
Hitler had a brief, unsuccessful career as an Artist in Vienna just before the outbreak of World War IL
James Bonds are best, says East spy
BONN : British s^ies were the best of the espionage foes pitted against the eastern European foreign intelligence networks, according to Markus Wolf, head of East Germany* secret service for 33 years.
in an interview soon before his arrest last week, he admitted that little was known about the activities of British spies, unlike the espionage efforts of West Germany, which he disparagingly described as "not vety good"
"Maybe the English were the best, these James Bonds, because they were the ones I knew the least about," Herr Wolf told Bunte, the Germany weekly, in an interview before he was arrested last week while trying to enter Germany from Austria.
Herr Wolf has played a pivotal role in eastern European in-' tclllgence since the 1939-45 war, with a relatively high profile compared to his shadowy British counterparts. It is said that he provided the inspiration for Karla, the head of the intelligence service with whom George Smiley regularly crossed swords in John Le Carre's spy novels.
His oWn novel, Troika, which is a thinly disguised version of his own life, has been translated into several languages.
Herr Wolf, 68, said his agents had filled Bonn's political and defence establishments until their cover was blown by Germany unity last October.
He brushed off Bonn's BND foreign intelligence agency, saying: 'The BND’s situation as far as informants was never very good."
Herr Wolfs most spectacular coup wns the planting of an agent inside the office of Willy Brandt, the then-West German Chancellor. When the agent's cover was blown. Herr Brandt s government fell in 1974.
It is estimated there are about 400 uncovered agents tn Germany. But tn interviews before his arrest Herr Wolf said he did not intend to reveal their names.
His view of western intelligence was confirmed last night by Nigel West, the spy writer and historian, who said Herr Wolf had good reason to sing the praises of the so called James Bonds.
"By and large we have been very successful. The number of our people who have been arrested around the world and ac cuscd of being British agents Is pretty limited." Mr West said.
He corroborated the view of the West German intelligence service portrayed by Herr Wolf. Herr Wolfs former boss used to report seeing more of his employees when he visited Bonn than in the intelligence service's East German headquarters.
With the collapse of successive communist government's in the East, Herr Wolf has spent recent years evading arrest and, until last week, staying one step ahead of those who would have happily detained him.
He fled to Moscow last year Just before unification took place. The failed coup in Moscow perhaps persuaded him that the time had come once again to move on, this lime taking a flight from Moscow to Vienna. It wns as he moved from Austria to Germany that his past caught up with him and he was finally arrested.
He is in prison pending a decision on whether he will stand trial on Cold War espionage and treason related charges against Bonn.
A Tutu hug for Nadine Gordimer
JOHANNESBURG : Nadine Gordimer. winner of this year • Nobel literature prize, returned home to South Africa on Wednesday to a congratulatory bear-hug from fellow Nobet laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, reports Reuter.
Black nationalist admirers greeted her with shouts of joy.
A weary-looklng Gordimer. who was in the United States when the prize was announced on October 3. told reporters: All I ran say Is that I am happy to be back home and among my friends."
Asked about her prize, she added: "I am more surprised than delighted."
A group from the Congress of South African writers, an affiliate of Nelson Mandela s African National Congress black nationalist movement, blew on a cattle horn and hoisted a gold banner displaying a huge portrait of the novelist and the slogan "Congratulations Nadine Gordimer "
Gordimer has said she will give part of her million dollar prize to the writers group.
Tutu won the Nobel peace prize in 1984 for his campaign against apartheid race segregation.
Raisa's brother in [psychiatric hospital
MOSCOW : Raisa Gorbachev's brother has been In n pay-. chlatrte hospital for the past six months, a Moscow newspaper reported Wednesday in a front page story, reports AP.
The article was accompanied by a photograph of * pale, downcast. unshaven man smoking a cigarette and wearing a bathrobe. Moskovsky Komsomolets, the radical newspaper, said he was Yevgeny Tltorcnko. brother-in-law of President Mikhail S Gorbachev.