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Monsignor Giuseppe Righi, a tall, erect Vatican diplomat, is flying to New York to take up his post as the Holy See's observer to the United Nations. During a stopover at London's Heathrow Airport, he is accosted by a pair of thugs, bundled into a waiting truck and whisked off into the night. When Righi's ongoing flight departs, the "prelate" in his seat is Colonel Vladimir Panin of the Soviet KGB, physically the monsignor's double, and now fully disguised with a black suit, clerical collar, and a briefcase on his knee...
...relationship myself," says Giovannetti. "Not true. Some of the people are real, with names changed, some are half real, but the girl is one of the inventions." Nevertheless he does note that spy and priest, ironically, have something in common in their abstinence and discipline. "Panin could dream what Righi could not," says the author, "but in the final analysis they were both committed to an austere life...
...over an Italian-American poplation of 98,048), Newark, N. J. (jurisdiction over 279,095). This retaliation called attention to the fact that Italy maintains 48 consular offices in continental U. S., to Britain's 24, Germany's 18. Said Newark's Vice-Consul Giulio Pascucci Righi, who had taken charge of the consulate only four days before: "I like it here and I was just about getting the seat warmed...