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...Times had something. In the spy business, Wynne seems to have been a petulant amateur. He was organizing exhibits of British industrial goods behind the Iron Curtain when the Foreign Office (which still officially denies it) pressured him into service as a courier. Wynne shuttled between British intelligence and one of its top Soviet sources, Civil Servant Oleg Penkovsky, who was later shot for treason. Molody had been a seasoned professional who arrived in Britain in 1955 with a Canadian passport and had set up an elaborate and highly successful spy ring...
...Charleston, S.C., the News & Courier, swallowing its disappointment over its idol Barry Goldwater's indifferent showing, found room to rejoice, after a fashion, over the emergence of Lodge. Said that paper, in what was surely the weirdest political forecast of the year: "The size of Mr. Lodge's write-in vote, compared to the Democratic write-in for Robert F. Kennedy, suggests to us a Johnson-Lodge combination...
...Kentuckians the Louisville Courier-Journal exceeds all other papers in the country in excellence...
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...those dedicated Stalinists who were willing to devote a lifetime to one shabby crime (he was released from a Mexican prison in 1960 and returned to Russia for his reward). Mornard began his well-laid plot by courting a homely girl from New York who served as a courier for Trotsky. He played the part of a bon vivant, showed no interest in politics and got the bemused girl to marry him. The first few times his wife visited Trotsky, Mornard tactfully waited outside. After several months he was finally invited in. He turned out some clumsy Trotskyite pamphlets...