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...Communist magazine Amerasia, and was about to arrest him. Then one day, John Stewart Service, a lean-jawed, young State Department foreign service officer just back from China, walked into Jaffe's hotel room in Washington and into the range of FBI microphones. Service lent Jaffe a sheaf of State Department reports on China, some stamped "secret" and "confidential." In four separate hotel-room sessions, he talked to Jaffe at great length about U.S. policy in China, twice cautioning Jaffe that the information he gave him was "very secret" or "confidential...
...gain but to save humanity from the horrors of another war," a tall, pale Swedish petty officer calmly told a Stockholm court last week. What Flag Engineer Ernest Hilding Andersson had done-this navy man of more than 20 years' standing-was to sell a sheaf of Sweden's closest military secrets to the Russians for 4,530 kronor (about $900) expense money...
Following yesterday's practice session Lloyd Jordan took a large sheaf of Army game papers from the top of his desk and put them in a drawer. "Well, we're through with that one," he said, "let's get the next one on the schedule...
...Moslem Brotherhood has paid him an even stronger compliment. Examining a sheaf of notes taken by a Brotherhood member apparently during an indoctrination session, a U.S. newsman found the following passage: "Brotherhood made bad mistake in deciding not to kill Farouk in 1948 . . . he is strongest man in Egypt...
Undertaker Floyd produced a sheaf of documents and handed them over. Harry read the first sentence and exploded "General Morgan, sir? You're not taking General Morgan today, tomorrow or the next day." Thoroughly aroused, Harry hustled off to warn his fellow townsmen that Cowpens, S.C. (pop. 1,800) had launched a new and bold attack to snatch the body of General Daniel Morgan...