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Next morning the lampista, who was Chief Inspector Pedro Polo of the Social Brigade (Spain's FBI), gathered some of his men and went back to the apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: End of the Road | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...knocked on an apartment-house door in a dingy corner of Barcelona identified himself as the lampista, the man from the electric company. He entered, and inspected the meter in an apartment occupied by a thin woman and a bearded man who called himself Josè Planas. The lampista noted carefully that the apartment had no back door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: End of the Road | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

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