Word: pavelic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London's King George's Park one sultry evening last week, a pasty-faced young Briton kept an appointment with Pavel Kuznetsov, ferret-faced second secretary of the Soviet Embassy to Britain. The young fellow was William Martin Marshall, 24, a $21-a-week radio operator employed by the Foreign Office to transmit clear and coded messages to British missions abroad. Once a clerk in Britain's Moscow Embassy, he had been meeting Communist Kuznetsov clandestinely for several months...
...court next day, Marshall, whom friends describe as "an average, rather stupid young man," was formally charged with having "on divers dates and at divers places, for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or interests of the state, communicated to another person, to wit, Pavel Kuznetsov, information . . . useful to an enemy." Marshall denied everything, and went to jail to await his trial. The Russian was safe from arrest, under diplomatic immunity. Scotland Yard would not say whether Marshall had given away any important secrets; handling code as he did, he was in a position to. He was the fourth Briton...
Last week Zdenka was back once more in free Germany, this time with Pavel and Alena. In Munich, she told her story...
Morse Code on the Border. "The same day," continued Zdenka, "I found Pavel and Alena. They didn't expect me back. We had talked about escape for a year already, but we had been afraid because it was said Americans tortured Czech refugees. Now I could tell them it wasn't true. Now we could escape together...
...Where will we go now? Alena wants to go to Australia, Pavel and I are going to Canada. I have heard that you can say what you think there...