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Satellite Rumania reported the capture of Wilhelm Spender and Constantin Saplakan, "two spies dropped in the Fagaras district on Oct. 18 by a U.S. aircraft which had set out from Athens." Spender and Saplakan, Rumania said, were recruited from an Italian D.P. camp in 1951, trained in "special U.S. espionage schools in Italy," and "given the task of committing acts of diversion . . . also of gathering military information...
...tough trade of espionage, it is an axiom that an exposed spy is disowned by the organization which employs him. Spender and Saplakan, Osmanov and Sarantsev (if they were not propaganda fiction) might have worked for any one of a dozen national or political groups in Western Europe, persecuted and exiled by the Soviet Union. None admitted it. As for the U.S., State Department Spokesman Michael McDermott was emphatic: "We know nothing of these men, and we know nothing of the incidents...
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