Word: komarek
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Just why the Communists wanted Kazan so badly is not clear. In 1951, his name-originally Vladimir Komarek-had been linked with a spy ring at the trial of Associated Press Newsman William N. Oatis, who later served two years in a Czech prison on a trumped-up espionage charge. The Czechs also claimed that Kazan once had a role in a gaudy murder in which a secret agent, supposedly firing through his raincoat pocket, killed a policeman in Prague. But when Kazan-Komarek came to trial last week before a three-man tribunal in Prague's municipal courthouse...
WASHINGTON. D.C., Jan. 24 - The trial of Vladimir Kazan-Komarek, head of the Harvard Travel Service and charged with espionage and murder, is scheduled to open in Prague Jan. 30, the State Department said Monday...
...Kazan-Komarek, arrested in the Czech capital Oct. 31, was visited Monday by Martin Weinick, an American consulate official...
Czech security police seized Kazan-Komarek after a Soviet airplane on which he was returning from Moscow to Paris made what was described as an emergency landing in Prague...
Czech officials have restricted embassy conversations with Kazan-Komarek to matters of health and personal wishes...