Word: atanasoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harried Theodore Atanasoff, Bulgarian trade representative, it seemed like a good idea at the time. His trade mission had been sent to Germany last July to buy automobiles, spare parts, shoemaking machines, airplane tires and numerous other articles difficult to acquire in Bulgaria. Not having any dollars for these purposes, but having access to a considerable quantity of fairly good Bulgarian-made cigarets, Atanasoff and his associates decided to bypass the import-export authorities, and deal "directly" on a "practical" basis. Why not? Theirs was not an official military mission such as the Dutch or Swiss had accredited...
Then American Criminal Investigation agents, tracking down a dozen-odd new U.S. automobiles stolen within recent weeks, became interested. Last week Atanasoff and salesmen were resting from their labors in the Ringstrasse jail. Said Theodore Atanasoff: "I'm just a poor non-Communist lawyer. I've an old mother and father dependent on me. I still don't see how the American military court has jurisdiction, as all the transactions were carried on in the Soviet zone...