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...recognizance, it seems unlikely that Wolf will spend much time in jail. Germany's Constitutional Court is now deliberating over whether former East German spies and intelligence officials can be prosecuted for simply having done their jobs. The issue was brought before the court in July when a Berlin judge suspended proceedings against Werner Grossmann, Wolf's successor as chief of the Hauptverwaltung Aufklarung, the foreign-intelligence department of the Stasi secret police. It would be a violation of the German constitutional guarantee of equal treatment, the judge contended, to convict an eastern German spy for something that western German...
Here is where a joyride turns into a forced march. Harry shackles himself to chronology: his privileged upbringing, his prep schools, his Yale, his initiation into the CIA, his subsequent postings to the world's hot spots -- Berlin in 1956, Latin America in the late '50s, South Florida during the U.S. Castromania of the early '60s. To certify his authenticity, Harry begins quoting extensively from letters he wrote and received, from interoffice memos, cable traffic and transcripts of bugged or wiretapped conversations. Mailer has invented all these reams of evidence, of course, but they come tricked out to look just...
...historian Isaiah Berlin is reported to have said that Yitzhak Shamir is like a wall and that while walls have uses, being talked to is not one of them. Listening to Shamir, however, is revelatory. For in common with several other world leaders (Saddam Hussein comes quickly to mind), the Israeli Prime Minister has always said exactly what he thinks and more often than not has done exactly what he has said he was going...
...shooting of Chris Gueffroy, believed to be the last person killed while trying to flee East Germany, the border guards responsible were decorated, given bonuses, extra vacation days and a celebratory meal. Last week the four were put on trial in Berlin, charged with manslaughter. The proceedings are the first of their kind, and getting convictions will be no small task. The accused, say their attorneys, citing the Nuremberg defense, were just following orders...
After the Bay of Pigs, and with tension rising in Berlin, John Kennedy went to Vienna believing that he could find some agreement with Nikita Khrushchev on how to reduce the threat of nuclear war. Instead he drew blank stares and threats. Throughout that grim summer Kennedy would talk to friends about Khrushchev's seeming indifference to the specter of millions of people dying in a nuclear exchange. "I'd never encountered anybody like that before," Kennedy mused...