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...limited to skirmishes scattered throughout the countryside, but few allied military men expected the comparative lull to last. One reason was a man who figured prominently in the week's news: Colonel Pham Van Thanh, a Viet Cong since 1945, who crossed lines to become the highest ranking defector of the war. Thanh brought with him the warning that the Communists were about to attempt a second round of attacks as a sequel to their countrywide Tet offensive three months...
Kennedy's source turned out to be a top-ranking defector from the KGB. Russia's ubiquitous security apparatus, whose French code name was "Martel." Martel's marathon debriefing in Washington by men from several NATO countries produced evidence that eventually unmasked some 200 KGB agents, including Georges Paques, a Frenchman and senior NATO official, who was imprisoned. When members of the French SDECE began questioning Martel, they were startled by his claims. He said that 1) he had "information pointing to" the presence of a Soviet spy among De Gaulle's closest advisers...
...Jones HI, the middle-class Detroit Negro who was the first defector to arrive. A Swedish resident since January 1967, Jones had been given an apartment in suburban Stockholm, found work for himself as a dancing teacher and for his German-born wife as a secretary, and fathered a son. Yet last week Jones let it be known that he had had his fill of Sweden. Complaining that "the Swedes have a natural prejudice against black people," he presented himself to the American embassy in Stockholm and asked for transportation back to his unit in West Germany, where he faced...
...true," says Negro PFC Gregory Putnam, 20, a Detroiter from an East Side storm center of last summer's rioting. "But it has nothing to do with the war." None has ventured to seek Viet Cong help. The V.C. have not, in fact, won over a single American defector, while 27,178 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese defected last year. G.I.s flatly mistrust Viet Cong promises. "I've seen enough of their brutality," says Negro Medic John Crews, "to know that the V.C. draw no color lines in their killing or mutilating American soldiers-black or white." When...
...later they "discovered" that it was really one of their own planes they had hit by mistake, but by that time New Zenith had accepted the "truth" of their accusation, and was claiming that it had been a Hamil plane with New Zenith markings, flown by a New Zenith defector...