Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trap Door. The charming Krogers, said the Crown, were the bankers and communicators for the ring. Rummaging through the Krogers' home, British police found $8,000 in cash and travelers' checks. A high-speed radio transmitter was found beneath a trap door in the kitchen, and in a secret cigarette-lighter compartment, a radio transmission schedule. Following the transmission schedule, counter-intelligence agents swiftly locked on to a station that directional locators placed in the vicinity of Moscow. Moscow's transmissions came in faithfully at the times and on the frequencies listed in the Krogers' schedules...
Also Flyspecks. The spy ring was handsomely equipped. A Chinese scroll discovered in Lonsdale's apartment had a secret catch revealing a hollow core. It contained $1,800 in cash. A can of paint at Houghton's place contained a plastic bag with $1,820 in cash. The brandy flask at the Krogers' contained iron oxide powder, which can be sprinkled on magnetic tape to make coded messages visible. Fly-speck-sized pieces of film found in Helen Kroger's purse were "microdots"-photographs of documents shrunk down by special equipment to minuscule size...
Testifying in court, the Admiralty's underwater warfare chief, Captain George Osborn Symonds, said that the work of the spy ring could have been "of highest value to a potential enemy." But British counter-intelligence had learned of a security leak at the Underwater Experimental Station last July, had had the ring under surveillance ever since. Implication was that most of the valuable information had been intercepted before it could be delivered...
Tipped off that some $30,000 in stolen jewelry had been cached in Buffalo, the FBI recovered part of the loot, while New York City cops gathered information that led to the arrest of four men and a wom an, members of a ring of international hotel thieves. Victim of the mid-January theft from her Savoy-Hilton Hotel suite in Manhattan: Patricia Kennedy Lawford, sister of the President and wife of Actor Peter Lawford...
...book's funnier anecdotes, "and was trying to read the comic pages of the American. He had just about mastered the spelling of the hard word 'Wow!' in a Barney Google episode when the bells of nearby St. Patrick's began to ring...