The two Nazis, who headed the CIC’s Most Wanted list, were carrying false identification papers and attempting to cross into France when Tedworth became suspicious.
“I wondered why a butcher from Dresden and a tailor from Kassel were going to France on a remote road at that hour, so I checked the CIC’s list, and bingo, there were pictures of them in their SS uniforms,” Tedworth said. “But the real credit for catching these guys goes to Pfc. Foster. He came to me and said, ‘First Sergeant, there’s something about these two that smells. Why don’t you take a look?’ If he hadn’t done that, they’d probably have gotten through.”
General Harmon said that the two SS officers would be turned over to the War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg, which has already indicted them in absentia on a number of charges.
Page 7, STARS AND STRIPES 14 February 1946.
WAYWARD OFFICERS GO HOME TO FACE REPRIMAND
What Could Have Been an International Incident Turns Out to Be Too Much Booze in Wrong Place
By Janice Johansen
Associated Press Foreign Correspondent
Berlin February 13—
What at first appeared to be an international incident in the making turned out to be nothing more than two officers, one Russian and the other American, drinking too much in the wrong places.
The issue was resolved at nine o’clock this morning in Berlin, when the Russian officers marched Colonel Robert Mattingly, of USFET headquarters, to the center of the Glienicke Bridge while simultaneously American officers marched Major of State Security Venedikt Ulyanov, of the Allied Commandantura, to the same place.
A white line in the center of the bridge over the River Havel marks the dividing line between the Russian and American zones of Berlin. Once the two officers reached that line, Russian officers released Col. Mattingly into the custody of an American captain, probably a military policeman, who in turn released Major Ulyanov into the custody of a Russian major, also probably a military policeman.
This reporter has learned exclusively that despite early reports that Colonel Mattingly was missing and kidnapping was suspected, and that Major Ulyanov had been kidnapped in retaliation, the truth seems to be that prior to their exchange on the Glienicke Bridge Colonel Mattingly was sitting in a jail cell in Thuringia, in East Germany, after his arrest for driving under the influence, and Major Ulyanov was sitting in a West Berlin jail after his arrest for public intoxication on the Kurfürstendamm.
Both headquarters, Berlin Command and the Allied Commandantura, refused to confirm or deny what this reporter had learned, but a U.S. Army spokesman said “the incident is under investigation.”
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Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri
1330 5 March 1946
“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent,” Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill said.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
W. E. B. Griffin is the author of seven bestselling series: The Corps, Brotherhood of War, Badge of Honor, Men at War, Honor Bound, Presidential Agent, and Clandestine Operations. He has been invested into the orders of St. George of the U.S. Armor Association and St. Michael of the Army Aviation Association of America, and is a life member of the U.S. Special Operations Association; Gaston-Lee Post 5660, Veterans of Foreign Wars; the American Legion, China Post #1 in Exile; the Police Chiefs Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, and the State of Delaware; the National Rifle Association; the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Society; and the Flat Earth Society (Pensacola, Florida, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, chapters). He is an honorary life member of the U.S. Army Otter-Caribou Association, the U.S. Marine Corp Raider Association, and the USMC Combat Correspondents Association.
William E. Butterworth IV has been an editor and writer for more than thirty years, has worked closely with his father on the editing and writing of many of the Griffin books, and is coauthor of seventeen bestselling novels with him, most recently The Assassination Option and Broken Trust. He is a member of the Sons of the American Legion, China Post #1 in Exile, and of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Society, and a life member of the National Rifle Association and the Texas Rifle Association. He lives in Florida.
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