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...instructions seized at John Walker's Norfolk home. They read like something out of a bad mystery novel. Hand-lettered in red and blue ink, the directions told Walker what route to take to meet a Soviet agent in Vienna, starting at a store called Komet Küchen, which sells kitchen cabinets. He was to make repeated stops at specified shop windows. "You will be contacted either at the Bazala store or somewhere on your route," the paper said. "If no one contacts you, please use alternate dates and the same route...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spy Ring Goes to Court | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...Supplementing the land-based rockets, many of Russia's 450 submarines are armed with the 95-mile-range Komet ballistic missile, which can be fired from underwater and is already in service, and the surface-fired 310-mile-range Golem, which is now in mass production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Red Rockets | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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