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At 22, Knobloch is a veteran but inept burglar, with a record of four arrests and three convictions. He had finished one stretch in an East Berlin jail and was headed for a trial that might bring him another when he was visited by a top East German secret police...
Where is Dr. Walter Linse? Since July 8, West Berliners have never ceased to wonder, and to ask. On that day, on a West Berlin street, Dr. Linse was bludgeoned outside his home, then thrown into a taxi that roared into East Berlin, where he dropped from sight (TIME, July...
U.S. authorities sent protest notes to the Soviets; the Reds disdained to answer. U.S. High Commissioner Walter J. Donnelly appealed directly to his Soviet opposite number, General Vasily Chuikov and Chuikov's reply spoke blandly of "a certain Linse" as though he had never heard the name. Again & again...
Last week the answer became clear. The Russians, who have a great respect for the forms of diplomacy and a cynical contempt for its use, have imprisoned Linse under another name. This enabled them to say that they did not know-officially-of Linse's whereabouts. U.S. authorities now...
¶ They can do nothing about freeing Linse, because the supposedly sovereign East German government has no control whatever over the East Zone's Russian-run secret police.