Word: fecteau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civilians got tougher treatment. Twenty-four-year-old John Thomas Downey of New Britain, Conn., a cousin of singer Morton Downey, and onetime captain of the Yale wrestling team, was sentenced to life imprisonment. Richard G. Fecteau, 27, of Lynn, Mass., whose parents told newsmen he had been working for Army intelligence, was given a 20-year sentence...
...Reds accused Downey and Fecteau of being Central Intelligence agents who were captured when their C-47 was trying to drop supplies to Chinese spy teams they had trained. The official U.S. version of the disappearance of Downey and Fecteau is that they were on a routine flight from Seoul to Tokyo when their plane vanished two years ago. In connection with the charges against Downey and Fecteau, the Chinese Reds announced that since 1951 they had executed 106 special U.S. agents; presumably, all or most of these victims were Chinese...