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...footnote to your footnote re TIME's March 10 movie review of 5 Fingers ["20th Century-Fox publicists . . . claim that the spy 'Cicero' conveniently turned up in Ankara when the picture was shooting on location...
...interest of truth, and in defense of 20th Century-Fox's excellent publicists, I can corroborate, and if necessary substantiate, the fact that "Cicero conveniently turned up in Ankara . . ." I was there myself . . . and I do know that this statement is correct...
...only did "Cicero" conveniently turn up in Ankara during the location shooting of 5 Fingers, but I put him in touch with [Director] Joe Mankiewicz, who spent more than an hour in deep conversation with him in the gardens of the Ankara Palas Hotel. "Cicero," whose real name is Elesya Bazna ("Ulysses Diello" in the movie version), was only one of a dozen aliases adopted by this clever, unscrupulous little man during his daring exploits of espionage...
...Will To Fight. At Ankara's Esenboga military airfield, Ike was welcomed by a surging crowd of photographers, an honor guard of the Turkish army and a corps of diplomats who had braved the razor winds to shake his hand. "Turkey," he told them, "has proven herself to be a democratic country [with] a very important strategic position in the Atlantic Treaty...
...publicists, expert at detecting espionage agents, claim that Cicero conveniently turned up in Ankara when the picture was shooting on location...