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...couriers, traveling under the name of Altmann, readily identified himself as a Czech army major and his companion as a Czech army captain. Each copy of classified government documents is identifiable by a secret mark, and the marks on the microfilmed papers pointed straight to Frenzel. Tapped on the shoulder in the Bundestag a few minutes after finishing his speech, Frenzel meekly began mumbling a confession during the ride to Karlsruhe Prison...
...Guns & Men. The Naples shipments are only a trickle compared to what Castro gets from Czechoslovakia, the Soviet bloc's export arsenal. By the end of August 1960, Czech-made R-2 .30-cal. rifles and other arms began leaving Stettin and Gdynia on Poland's Baltic coast in such quantity that Castro's Red-made arsenal doubled in two months, is now valued at more than $300 million. With the equipment came the experts; some estimates put the number at 3,000 from Czechoslovakia and Russia, including 17 jet pilots. In return, scores of Cuban cadets...
...tanks, 60 of them Russian and Czech vehicles in the 30- and 35-ton class, plus four new 43-ton T-54 Soviet tanks that have night-fighting, infra-red sights and mount a 100-mm. gun, can outperform anything except the newest...
...October 1 the Panzer divisions rolled into the Czech Sudation land. Anxious to see for himself a continent on the brink of war, Kennedy received permission to spend the Spring term in Europe. Staying at American embassies, he chatted with politicians and citizens in Poland, Russia, Palestine, Turkey, the Balkans, Berlin, and Paris...
...satellite Communist bosses trotting at Nikita Khrushchev's heels in Manhattan, one was conspicuously odd man out. Red Premier Mehmet Shehu of Albania was not on the Baltika's passenger list, got to Manhattan as an ordinary passenger on the S.S. Queen Elizabeth. At a Communist Czech reception, Shehu stood forlornly in a corner, studiously avoided by everybody except the State Department security man assigned as his bodyguard. And when, at a party given by the Rumanian Reds, Khrushchev took his satellite cronies into a back room for a chat, the door was shut in Shehu...