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Originally, the three were five, all Czechs: two brothers, Ctirad and Josef Masin, in their early 20s; a friend, Milan Baumer, 22, a military cadet; Zbynek Janata, 30, a factory executive; and Vaclav Svejda, 30, a disappropriated landowner. Armed with one revolver of about .35 caliber, two smaller automatics and 52 cartridges-arms hidden since World War II-the group formed up in Prague. Early in October they crossed the Czech-East German frontier at night. They were almost due south of Berlin and some 130 air miles away...
...Soviet zone of Germany last week came stories of guerrilla bands attacking Vopos (People's Police) and even Red army units. East Berlin's Communist Neues Deutschland ran pictures of four Vopos recently killed near Cottbus. and rewards of 1,000 marks each were posted for three Czech refugees who. presumably, had done the killing. In special maneuvers, some 25,000 Vopos took to the field with full packs, sending scouting parties across the countryside, posting guards on the highways and digging foxholes. The East German Interior Ministry announced it had uncovered and smashed a number...
...complete list, in English and Chinese, not only of the names, ranks and serial numbers of the P.W.s (which is all they were required to do), but of their parents and home-town addresses as well. If this list passes from the Indian guards to the Polish and Czech members of the commission, the U.N.'s basic principle of "no forced repatriation" will look sick indeed: the Communists could simply tell the P.W.s, via explainers or the camp grapevine, to return home or accept reprisals against their families...
...Boss. "Prisoners make fantastic confessions," wrote Oatis, "because they feel that [their] only chance to save something out of the wreckage ... is to do what the police want them to do." In his case, a Czech secret police agent, posing as an official Czech information officer, made friends with Oatis and at dinner gave him background information which painstaking Bill Oatis dutifully recorded in his notebook. The agent even suggested that Oatis try to smuggle the stories out via the U.S. diplomatic pouch (Oatis refused). Not long after, a Czech, who had once applied...
Jailed and cut off from the world outside, Oatis was told that the U.S. embassy "is doing nothing for you." His captors gave him a swift course in Communist Czech law. The activities of correspondents, they said, are divided into two categories: 1) "official reporting," i.e., government handouts, 2) "unofficial reporting," i.e., stories from any other source. The second, he was told, was espionage in Communist Czechoslovakia, even though it would be considered routine reporting in any country of the free world. His chief interrogator, a man with a "hideous smile" who said simply, "Just call me 'The Boss...