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Behind the closed doors of an Oslo courtroom, seven judges were trying Communist Asbjoern Sunde, a wartime resistance hero, for transmitting Norwegian military secrets, passports and police cards to the Russian embassy. The prosecution built a seemingly airtight case: eyewitnesses testified that they had seen Sunde hand over papers to a Soviet attaché at obscure rendezvous; Sunde's sister-in-law and a friend acknowledged that he had asked them for their passports. But after two weeks of testimony, Sunde perked up and announced cockily: "I've been playing with the police...
...dangerous underground struggle against the Nazis in World War II, a patriotic Norwegian cop named Asbjoern Brhyn worked with and came to like a tall, pale young Communist named Asbjoern Sunde. Sunde ran the Red underground mercilessly and effectively, never flinching at robbery, murders or bombings. He had already served his Communist apprenticeship as a courier in the Comintern maritime service and as a volunteer in the Spanish civil war. After the war, Communist Sunde became something of a hero for his underground activities, and his memoirs, Men in Darkness, became a bestseller. Then, inevitably, the two Asbjoerns drifted apart...
...last month, B. S. Meshchevitinov, the Soviet Union's young cultural attache in Norway, jammed his belongings into grips and caught the overnight express to Stockholm. He got away just in time. The next day, Inspector Asbjoern Brhyn of the Norwegian security police announced that Meshchevitinov had been Russian contact for the biggest spy ring ever unearthed in Norway. For the past two years, Meshchevitinov had been driven in a limousine to isolated and regular rendezvous near the capital. There he had been met by a tall, pale man who supplied the Russian with a complete file of Norway...
Russia's liaison man got away, but last week all twelve Norwegians in the spy ring were in jail awaiting trial. Heading them all, said Inspector Brhyn, was his old comrade in the underground, Asbjoern Sunde. Old Comrade Sunde, hard as nails, said only: "I'm not talking at all. You have to prove everything...
Most dangerous part of the strike are the surreptitious championships, particularly in skiing. Last winter's ended in tragedy. One Sunday afternoon, 90 crack jumpers mysteriously appeared on a hillside near Oslo. Asbjoern Ruud had barely made the winning leap of 72 meters (234 ft.) when the police arrived. The new champion was dragged off to concentration camp along with 24 other competitors...
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