Word: brhyn
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...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...
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