New York, June 2—I have information on the matter of Willy Brandt that has received inadequate attention, perhaps because it has been treated as highly confidential.
The published story is that Willy Brandt resigned from office because his intelligence people discovered that Günter Guillaume, an intimate and perhaps his closest aide, was in fact an East German Communist spy. Rather than fight to vindicate himself—so the story goes —Brandt elected to show that famous Prussian manliness by resigning his office, while the editorial organs of the world sang his praises and the curtain closed on Götterdämmerung.
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