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Last week, ex-Naval Hero Danielsen was in Oslo's "No. 19" prison, awaiting trial. His father, an able, widely respected officer, was deeply distressed by his son's rowdy behavior and pro-Communist activities, has not spoken to him since war's end. Recently he saw...
"Then I was presented with a so-called confession of sabotage. Before I signed that statement, we argued it word by word, line by line. That night I was awakened roughly and was launched on a period of some twelve days of further grilling. I was fed scantily . . . I lost...
"There comes a time when a person . . . believes that he is abandoned, that he will be killed in any case, and that an alleged confession will appear anyway, and so he signs the rubbish placed before him."
In the next 70 days, the commissars of the NKVD tried to strip his mind and spirit in more systematic ways. How close they came without actually succeeding makes up the chilling better half of Invitation to Moscow, a book of vivid wartime reminiscences by one of Poland's...
Inside, the cops found the bodies of two of their own officers: Major Alfredo Gómez and Lieut. Juan Flores. According to the confession Chichi's men extracted from Arnulfo's aide, the two had been shot down in cold blood; Arnulfo himself had pulled the trigger...