LEADER OF ARRESTED GANGSTERS WAS INTELLIGENCE OFFICER OF BRITISH ARMY IN PALESTINE
(Bee. 10.5) LUJNDUIN, bept. 20. , . Israeli police in a ten-hour comb-out on Saturday took into custody a few young; girls among two hundred members of *a gang which they arrested. Norman Nahum Nimri, 34 years of age, who is reported to have been the Stern Gang’s second in command, was among two hundred members of the gang which members of the Israel Army and the police rounded t up at the week-end as suspected of being implicated in the assassination of Count Bernadotte, state News Agency messages from Tel Aviv. Nimri deceived the British Intelligence for seven years. He was attached to the Intelligence Branch of the British Army Headquarters in Palestine, and, at the same time, he was working as a topranking officer in the Stern Gang’s political branch. He is a South African Jew. A report from Jerusalem says that police have arrested a young Jew who, they alleged, was the driver of the jeep carrying Count Bernadotte’s assassin.
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Grey River Argus, 21 September 1948, Page 5
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173LEADER OF ARRESTED GANGSTERS WAS INTELLIGENCE OFFICER OF BRITISH ARMY IN PALESTINE Grey River Argus, 21 September 1948, Page 5
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