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French police pulled in a cloak-and-dagger suspect, a darkly handsome colonel who commanded the 5th Infantry Regiment in Blois, 100 miles from Paris, and -according to recently captured documents-passed military secrets to anti-De Gaulle activists. His name in the documents was "Ulrich." But Ulrich, now transferred to the security prison in Paris, turned out to be Henri Fournier-Foch, 50, grandson of heroic Marshal Foch, Allied Supreme Commander of World...
...believed that Byron had committed murder while traveling in the Mediterranean, and solemnly noted that during his brandy bouts he ranted wildly of his conquests ("In 1813 he had absolute criminal Connections with an old Lady at the same time as with her Daughter-in-Law") while brandishing the dagger or the two pistols he habitually kept by his bedside...
Hope's wedding dress was a wraparound, frost-white brocade silk mokey, held in at the waist by a gold belt, from which hung a small dagger. To ward off evil spirits, Hope pressed her hand into a piece of dough. A pair of holy men conducted her to the chapel, where she was greeted by a fanfare of trumpeting, 10-ft.-long Himalayan horns, braying conch shells, and booming bass drums. Outside the chapel door was the only distinctively American touch in the $60,000 Buddhist rite-a mat on which was written in English, "Good Luck...
...Where Is My Son?" The pay was good. Shamburger, as a pilot, got about $2,100 a month; the others received $1,900. The four Alabamans left their homes in mid-January, telling their families that their mission was secret. In proper cloak-and-dagger style, their mail was sent and received through a general-delivery box in Chicago. Most of them returned to Birmingham only once, for a single day in March. The next month came the invasion. According to Mansfield, the four volunteered to replace exhausted Cuban pilots during the Bay of Pigs struggle, and were killed when...
...central figure was Egyptian-born Sami Schinasi, an enterprising scoundrel who offered his services as an espionage agent to the French government. As proof of his cloak-and-dagger abilities, Schinasi genially explained that he got his start in espionage in September 1959, when he had a civilian job at the U.S. armed forces gasoline and oil depot in Fontainebleau. Needing some extra money, Schinasi had dropped into the Russian embassy in Paris and proposed that he do some moonlighting...