NAZI SPIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1942, Page 3

NAZI SPIES

GESTAPO ACTIVE IN LISBON. A PERSISTENT PHOTOGRAPHER. There is considerable Gestapo activity in Lisbon. Mr Floyd Chalmers, of a Toronto publishing firm, who lately arrived in England, told a newspaper reporter how he escaped being photographed by a man who was evidently working for the Gestapo.

Mr Chalmers and a friend were walking along the front at Estoril when they were accosted by a beach photographer. “This man,” said Mr Chalmers, “had one of those small pin cameras on a tripod. He asked if he could photograph us. Something told me that he had an ulterior motive. We said as it was five o’clock in the afternoon, and the light was bad, the result would hardly be flattering. “We managed to get away from him after an argument. Later that same evening we came upon the photographer showing a pile of photographs to Rheinbaden, who is chief Gestapo spy in Lisbon. “I found out that the Gestapo keens track of all British people from the Dominions who arrive by aeroplane at Lisbon. The same night when we were dining in our hotel we found Rheinbaden sitting at the next table to us and apparently listening to our conversation. Lisbon is a hotbed of Nazi espionage.”