Cohn-Bendit within the JFK recordsdata: “Last known location: Frankfurt, Germany” | EUROtoday

The ten-page telecommunications dates from September 22, 1970 and went to CIA branches throughout Western Europe-from Bern to Zurich and from Brussels to Vienna. In the Federal Republic, 5 departments got the record with 51 names, plus the order: “Please report every information regarding activities, including travel, the individuals listed below, which in their assessment could have an impact on the safety of the President during his journey of European trip.” There is a reputation identified in Germany then and right now: Daniel Cohn-Bendit.

The paper in itself just isn’t very exceptional: Cohn-Bendit, born because the son of German-Jewish refugees close to Toulouse in southern France on April 4, 1945, was a well known left-wing extremist activist on the finish of the Nineteen Sixties. In May 1968, the Franconian was the best-known chief and, so to talk, the “face” of the rebellion of extremist college students in Paris, who had paralyzed the French capital for a couple of weeks. On May 22, 1968, he was denied the return to France after he had been briefly within the Federal Republic – regardless of his start and his life in France, he solely had German citizenship till 1958.

In July 1968 he moved to Frankfurt and labored there as an extremist activist. For instance, he visited the imprisoned division retailer hearth founder Gudrun Ensslin in jail a number of occasions and publicly supported her and her buddy Andreas Baader.

So it’s not stunning that the CIA presumably wished to know on behalf of the Secret Service, the establishment chargeable for the safety of the US President, within the run-up to Richard M. Nixon’s journey to Europe, which well-known left-wing extremists had been doing. At the go to of US Vice President Hubert Humphrey in West Berlin on April 6, 1967, (permissible) Lausch campaigns of the CIA with identified left-wing extremists confirmed that the radically anti-bourgeois municipality I deliberate “Actions” towards the state visitor.

Just a few hours earlier than touchdown the Vice President, the police struck and took eleven individuals in custody within the residence. In addition, chemical substances and already accomplished smoke candles had been confiscated.

But somewhat later the world laughed at West Berlin’s police. Because the accountable decide had launched the arrested as a result of they may make it credible to not have deliberate no explosive assault, however solely a “pudding attack”. In actuality, in addition they wished to throw smoke bombs and had been most likely preserved by the arrest from a probably life -threatening confrontation with the High nerves of Secret Service for the reason that homicide of John F. Kennedy in 1963. However, these details went beneath within the malice of the police, which apparently couldn’t distinguish between pudding powder and plastic explosives.

In view of this, early Enlightenment earlier than Nixon’s go to appeared useful-and so the well-known extremist Cohn-Bendit ought to have come throughout the data (not: search) record of the CIA. His description was fairly modest: “White, male, blue eyes, red hair” – you would hardly seek for that. The alleged alias names corresponding to “Daniel Radatz” or “Daniel Kudron-Modzelewski” are extra probably to return to misunderstandings: Despite his occupied sympathy for terrorists like Ensslin, Cohn-Bendit by no means lived underground. In this respect, the assertion within the record is even humorous: “Last known location: Frankfurt, Germany”.

Interesting that is hardly an thrilling paper solely by way of the location: It is a part of the 80,000 sheet that the US nationwide archive has now launched the so-called JFK recordsdata on the premise of a instruction from President Donald Trump. First the “Bild” reported (seems like Welt within the Axel Springer writer).

How now did a listing from September 1970 come into the paperwork in regards to the homicide of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas? What appears unusual at first look will shortly make clear once you have a look at the creation of the JFK recordsdata. The majority of them include paperwork that had been collected or written for the work of a complete of three examination commissions: firstly of the “Warren Commission”, which was to tell the circumstances of the violent demise of the favored younger president in 1963/64 on behalf of Kennedy’s successor Lyndon B. Johnson; Second, the “United States House of Representative Select Committee on Assassinations”, a particular committee of the US House of Representatives in regards to the murders of Kennedy 1963 and Martin Luther King 1968; Third, the “JFK Assassination Records Review Board”, which has already been all paperwork from 1992 to 1998. Murder of Kennedy collected and examined completely.

It will be assumed that the record of Cohn-Bendit’s title (on which the scholar information Rudi Dutschke and the left-wing extremist lawyer Horst Mahler had been additionally accessible) obtained into the JFK recordsdata in reference to the committee of the House of Representatives-as an instance of academic work within the run-up to a presidential journey. This instance thus reveals why the often related approval of beforehand solely partially blackened recordsdata for homicide in Dallas will be anticipated with virtually no substantial findings: Really related secrets and techniques aren’t recorded in recordsdata of examination commissions.

Sven Felix Kellerhoff is a senior editor on the planet historical past. His primary subjects embrace National Socialism, GDR, leftists and proper -wing terrorism, conspiracy theories and assaults of all types.