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...also in London, one of the oddest of the spy cases came to light when the government admitted that it was granting asylum to Anatoly Dolnytsin, a former senior Russian intelligence officer who defected to the West 18 months ago, and had spent the intervening time being thoroughly pumped by U.S. and British agents. One reported result: the revelation that British Newsman H.A.R. Philby was indeed the "third man" who enabled Spies Burgess and Maclean to escape arrest and flee to Russia in 1951. Last winter Philby, too, slipped behind the Iron Curtain just ahead of pursuing MI-5 agents...
...hour after takeoff, Obacz roared over West Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie at rooftop level, landed at Tempelhof Airport, and requested political asylum. "I fled because I was fed up," Obacz said. "I was tired of pressure. I wanted to work toward truth. We want the right to travel where we want, the right of free speech, the right to work for a good cause...
...four years the brothers plied their trade. In 1952 Eva Peron gave Juan Cardoso a gold cup as "best detective of the year." Then when Peron was finally ousted in 1955, the boys hopped on a motorcycle, raced to the Paraguayan embassy and requested political asylum. The new Argentine government angrily demanded their return as common criminals. But the Paraguayans insisted that the Cardosos were political refugees...
...long will their asylum last? The two countries still argue over the brothers. Argentina refuses them safe conduct to Paraguay's capital of Asuncion. Tiny Paraguay, eager to stand up to its big neighbor, is determined not to turn them over. The Cardosos grimly look forward to 1967, when the statute of limitations should run out. Then, after twelve years in asylum, they hope to be free, having set a record that is likely to stand a while...
Free again, De Sade gave up public life in disgust and returned to his private orgies. Accused of writing an obscene pamphlet ridiculing Napoleon and Josephine, he was incarcerated for the last time-in an insane asylum. There he amused the inmates by staging his plays, which had flopped outside the asylum but were a big hit within. "This man is not insane," De Sade's last doctor declared, "he is just mad about vice." Despite that madness, De Sade's writing showed an early insight into the makeup of man. Before Freud, De Sade saw that cruelty...