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The news magazine Der Spiegel reported yesterday that the brains of three prominent Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorists who died in 1977 - Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe - had all been stored in jars in the university clinic of T�bingen at the time of their deaths.


But a search of the clinic's brain deposit, carried out at Der Spiegel's request, failed to turn up either the organs themselves or any paperwork to show where they had gone.


The magazine quoted the head of the university's Institute for Brain Research, Richard Meyermann, as saying: "They are no longer there."


Andreas Baader, who was found dead in jail in 1977, having apparently committed suicide, was one of two leaders of the RAF, a movement that was responsible for the deaths of more than 30 people in the 1970s and early 1980s. His co-leader, Ulrike Meinhof, had hanged herself a year earlier.