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Lieut. Icardi told Sergeant LoDolce that the trigger-happy Communists were losing patience with the mission. If it were not for the major, the mission could forget about politics, start sending back vital military information and getting weapons that would save thousands of American lives. Icardi spoke of sending Holohan "to Switzerland without his shoes"-a partisan expression meaning to kill...
Cyanide in the Soup. The major liked minestrone. On the night of Dec. 6, Tozzini fixed a big pot of the soup. Holohan sat down with his back to the stove, and Manini slipped potassium cyanide into Holohan's bowl. Holohan took a few spoonfuls. The soup burned, he said. The major doggedly ate on, said that he felt sick, and reeled upstairs to vomit...
...before the fireplace, Icardi and LoDolce decided not to take a chance on the poison. They tossed a coin. LoDolce lost. He was handed a 9-mm. Beretta automatic, and crept up the stairs. The others followed behind. LoDolce shoved open the door. "What's the matter?" asked Holohan, sitting up in bed. LoDolce fired two shots into the major's head...
...murderers worked swiftly. While Icardi wrapped a towel around Holohan's head to stop the blood, the two partisans wrapped the body in a sleeping bag, stuffed in the major's clothes and guns, and lugged their burden down to the lake. Manini had a boat waiting. The partisans weighted the bag with a stone and shoved off. About 100 yards from shore, they slipped the body of Major William V. Holohan into the icy waters of Lake Orta...
...study, several months ago returned to the U.S., and was working for Pan-American Grace Airways in New York when the case broke last week. After the three confessions naming him had been made, he was never officially questioned about the case. In the past year, stories of how Holohan died appeared in the Italian press, and there were a few very incomplete hints in the U.S. press. But the details might never have been told if True magazine had not got on the scent, pulled the story together. Last week, when an advance copy of True reached Washington...