Word: superstrength
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Defeated Machinery. On trial in London, Italian-born Atomic Physicist Giuseppe Martelli tried to explain away his possession of hollow-heeled shoes suitable for concealing microfilm, cigarette packs containing thin, inflammable message pads, sheets of rendezvous instructions, a high-powered camera, and a superstrength radio receiver. He had accepted all these gadgets from the Russians, he said, only to string them along and then denounce them at the right time to the British authorities. Asked the judge: "You felt that you could defeat the whole machinery of Soviet intelligence...
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