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...Quakers, despite their unimpressive record, are an awfully good team. Perry Bromwell and Karl Racine form one of the finest Ivy League backcourts ever, and with center Bruce Leftkowitz setting up in the paint, the team will be through one to handle...
...that Hana worked between 1974 and 1983 as a transatlantic courier for Czechoslovak intelligence, she was taken into custody last week only as a witness to her husband's alleged crimes. She was not charged, a Justice Department official suggested, because the FBI bungled her arrest. If convicted, Karl Koecher could be sentenced to life in prison...
...Koechers, federal authorities say, were classic moles, emigrants who arrived from Czechoslovakia 19 years ago with the express purpose of infiltrating U.S. intelligence. Karl was allegedly recruited by the Czech agency in 1962, and trained as a spy for two years before being dispatched with his young wife to the U.S. They settled in New York, where Karl, who claims doctorates in physics and philosophy, taught at a local college...
...after he is said to have got his marching orders from Czechoslovak officials, Koecher managed to penetrate the CIA. He worked first as a translator for the agency in Washington for two years, then in New York until 1977. Meanwhile Hana took a sales job with a diamond firm. Karl eventually returned to teaching and, friends say, made a great show of his supposed anti-Communist fervor...
There are other intriguing questions about Koecher's behavior. He and Hana, who are childless, were planning a new life in Austria before Karl confessed. "We saw them at a farewell dinner in our home," says one friend. "There was no indication they were apprehensive." The day before the Koechers' arrest, they sold their cooperative apartment for more than a quarter of a million dollars. Did they believe the FBI would simply let them take the money and run? The Koechers, says their lawyer, were "doublecrossed" by the FBI. He would not elaborate...