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# Newest and Biggest Value atBad AiblingBaden-BadenBerlinBitburgDarmstadt.HerzoIncirlikIraklionKitzingenO'gauRothwestenStuttgartWiesbadenYour Audio Club has the# The Nagell Affair...## 'You must get out of Berlin!'(Continued From Page 13)connected injuries and New promised him help in getting a disability retirement."But," the source added, New also told Nagell: "Of course, this (offer of help in getting a disability retirement) is predicated on your staying away from the news media.'"On the afternoon flight to Stuttgart Nagell fell asleep, convincing him that he had been given a drug or a barbiturate.Because of fog he didn't get to Zurich until 4 a.m. and "he was feeling extremely sick," the source sald. "He rested for a few hours and went to the U.S. Consulate General, New had told him to stay away from the 'consulate in Zurich because 'they will question you and send it to Washington.' Nagell couldn't understand New's reasoning, but he went to the consulate to get a doctor, not to tell them about Berlin. He was drastically sick and wanted a doctor. He thought he was dy- ing."Referred to a civilian doctor, Nagell was told "he had been given an overdose of Seconal, a most potent sleeping drug." Nagell was sick for about six days.Meanwhile, he was also waiting to hear from New, who had promised to phone him in two or three days. Nagell had told him he wanted the search for his family to be agreed upon before he returned, to the States.Twice Nagell called New's room at the Berlin Hilton. First New was "unavailable," then he had checked out for the U.S. (Later, back in Washington, New allegedly explained it had been "unadvisable" to go to Zurich because the East Germans might have tapped his phone and he didn't want them to know Nagell was there. Nagell didn't buy that.)With New hot showing up to discuss the search for his faml- ly, Nagell violated his instruc- tions and went to the consulate for help.On his first visit Nagell found "they had a classified file on him and knew he had been in East Berlin," the source con- tinued. "But he refused to an- swer questions about his im- prisonment and told them about New's promise.""The next time, he told the consulate he was angry that he had not heard from New and that if he didn't get help he was going to the news media. This is when he was offered State Department help in locating his family predicated on his early return to the United States. Nagell agreed and flew back to New York."In New York, Nagell waited about two or three weeks to hear from the State Dept. When he didn't he contacted a State Dept, agency in New York and was allegedly told that a letter would be sent to Washington."That was the last time Na- gell heard from them," the source said. "He never received a copy of the letter to Washing- ton, as promised, and they were always unavailable when he called."Meanwhile, Nagell was see- ing New in Washington and called in person at the State Dept."They told him that the State Department didn't have the facilities to search for the children," the source said, "but on account of the circumstances surrounding the case and 'be- cause one of our employes ap- parently made a promise in Zu- rich,' they would conduct a search for his children and de- termine whether he was mar- ried or divorced."He never heard from them again. When he called they were quote unavailable un quote."Through a lawyer in New's office, described as a luxurious suite visited by Pentagon of- ficers in civilian clothes, Nagell got an appointment at the VA for "a-two-and-a-half-minute physical with his clothes on,' according to the source. "Two hours later he was awarded a 100 percent disability allow- ance for a nervous condition.""Nagell went back to New and told him they wanted to tag him (Nagell) with a nervous condition to destroy his credi- bility."For good reason, Nagell wor- ried that a nervous condition might be used to tag him as a nut who didn't know what he was talking about.In July 1968, while Nagell was in the Communist prison, Edward Jay Epstein, author of a book on the Warren Com- mission, wrote an article in the New Yorker magazine at- tacking New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison's in- vestigation of the Kennedy as- sassination.Epstein described Nagell as "another witness found in the mail (of crank letters, publicity seckers and bogus tips)... an Inmate of a Federal institution for the criminally insane in Springfield, Miss. . court records indicated that Nagell had suffered brain damage in an airplane crash in 1957."Nagell's rebuttal:He was sent to the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield to determine whether he could stand trial and when he was up for parole;On each occasion he was found mentally competent;In 1954 (not in 1957) he was the only survivor of a B52 crash at Baltimore's Friendship Airport (not in Cambodia, as reported in Ram- parts magazine by former FBI agent William W. Turner);After hospitalization he returned to Army Intelligence School, received a top secret clearance and was assigned to the CIC;A June 17, 1966, psychiatric report from the Springfield Medical Center stated there was no "evidence or finding suggestible of brain damage.All this runaround in Washington convinced Nagell that no one in the States was going to help him find his family. He decided to return to Europe.# In Zurich somoone tried to kill himOn Feb. 21 of this year he flew from Mexico City to Zurich. But the vice-consul who had promised State Dept. help last fall was no longer there. Nagell asked for the man he claimed to be the CIA station chief. He, too, was gone.Sent to the consulate's politi- cal section, Nagell told them of the promises he'd been given and threatened to go to Swiss newspapers about a CIA agent in Bern, the Swiss capital."A member of the consulate asked Nagell to give them two weeks and telexed Washing- ton," the source said. "But then one night there was an at- tempt on Nagell's life and he left for Barcelona the next day.""There he contacted the U.S. Consulate General and told them why he had left Zurich and asked that Zurich's reply from Washington be sent to Barcelona.""Nagell was in Barcelona for two weeks. But then he real- ized he was being watched and left to see an ex-Army intelli- gence officer at the American Embassy in Madrid."Again he stayed for two weeks. The embassy gave him no satisfaction, not even telling him what Washington had said. So he decided to go back to Berlin where this thing started and made some prom- ises to himself one of them being that if he didn't find his children he would go to the news media."He was referred to Andor Klay and Bruce Flatin, two of the men who had met Nagell when he came from East Berlin, and eventually to a :Kenneth Hill in the passport section."A week or two later," the source continued, "they finally got confirmation from Washing- ton that they had been unable to locate Nagell's children so far but were continuing their efforts.""So he finally agreed to go back to the States as long as the State Department was con- tinuing their efforts."Pointing out that he had spent a great deal of his money "running around," Nagell asked for Government transportation home and was refused.On April 19 or 20 Nagell real- ized he was under surveillance."Around 10:30 on the night of April 22, Nagell was walk- ing down Kurfuerstendamm when he lost his tail," the source continued. "They just disappeared. He didn't try to lose them.""Nagell then went down a side street and into a small res- taurant with a bar."He ordered a beer and was standing at the bar, talking to a guy on his right, when he saw the door open and two men came directly toward him."Nageli was getting ready to tell the men he didn't speak German when he saw one pick something out of his pocket and swing at him. Nageli turned and was hit on the back of the head."Police took Nagell to the Albrecht Achilles Hospital. When he told the Germans he thought he had been hit by the CIA, "they called an American from the CID, a British representative (ap- parently the side street was in the British Sector) and a mem- ber of the Berlin political police."Around midnight Nagell went to the U.S. Mission and asked for Hill in the passport section. Instead, he got the Army staff duty officer and a CIC agent."He gave his bloody shirt and T-shirt in a bag to the CIC agent," the source sald, "and told him to give it to Hill.'If something happens to me,' he told the agent, 'the responsibility is going to be pinned because I'm going to the papers.'"Back In his hotel, Nagell was worried that he was going to be killed."In the morning he went to the Army hospital and then to Hill in the consulate."Hill had the bloody cloth- ing. 'You must get out of Berlin,' he told Nagell. 'We cannot give you protection here. The German police think it's either mistaken Identity or the MIS.''Last night I thought some- body wanted to kill me,' Nagell replied. 'Now I take it as (only) a warning.' "(Later, Hill told The FAMILY he considered Nagell merely "a private American citizen traveling abroad." He added: "Ninety-nine and a half per- cent of his story is fantasy." Hill confirmed that he had re- ceived Nagell's bloody clothing and that Nagell had come to him with a stitched-up head wound. But he would only say that the attack "is his story, not that I have any other story about it.")But shortly after that Nagell was placed on orders as an ambulatory patient and sent on the Berlin duty train to Frank- furt. His orders also put him on a military flight back to the States.That's where he apparently is now.But he still doesn't know if he's married or divorced and the whereabouts of his nil- dren.# NEW 110-WATT SCOTT 342CThe World's Most Advanced Receiver> [Figure] ![photo description]> "Perfectune" light snaps on when you're correctly tuned!> "Wire-wrap" connections eliminate solder jointal> Quartz Crystal lattice fliter IF strip never needs alignment!> New IC In Multiplex section!More value thanks to Scott's newly developed assembly techniques. 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