Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours later, radios blared the government version: the Barbots were caught setting fire to a cane field outside Port-au-Prince and were killed resisting arrest. Pictures of the riddled bodies were passed out to newspapers. But many superstitious Haitians believe that Clement Barbot lives on, and black dogs on the street draw fearful sidelong glances...
...interesting first is back-to-back programming, exemplified by a 90-minute ABC show titled Arrest and Trial broken into two 45-minute parts. A different criminal each week is captured by Detective Ben Gazzara in Arrest, then sprung by Defense Attorney Chuck Conners in Trial, thus effectively canceling out 90 minutes of effort...
...afterward, thanks to a recommendation from his friend Clemens, Felfe was offered a job in the Gehlen service. "Now," he said, "I was to dance at two weddings, with the Russians and with Gehlen." Felfe danced up fast in Gehlen's ranks, and by the time of his arrest in 1961 had become a department head in the counter-espionage division, specializing in anti-Soviet work...
...always be cases of infiltration in any intelligence service." But the Gehlen group must have set a record of sorts. At one point, testified Felfe, his Russian bosses urged him to get a transfer because there already was a surplus of Soviet agents in his department. Shortly before their arrest, added Felfe, he and Clemens received letters of commendation and cash bonuses from the chair man of the Soviet Committee for State Security. Simultaneously, the two agents got citations for ten years' meritorious service-from General Gehlen...
...Diem's government charged Tam and 34 others with treason by conspiring to overthrow the President in an abortive coup attempt in November 1960. It was just two days before the scheduled trial that Tam committed suicide, and he explained why in a note he left behind. "The arrest and trial of all nationalist opponents of the regime is a crime that will force the nation into the hands of the Communists," he wrote. "I oppose this crime, and I kill myself as a warning to those people who are trampling on our freedoms...