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...into the super-melodramatic, real-life story of World War II Spy Ulysses Diello, Albanian valet of the British Ambassador to Turkey. During 1944, Diello photographed and sold to the Nazis such top-secret documents from the British embassy in Ankara as the minutes of the Moscow, Cairo and Teheran conferences, and plans for Operation Overlord (the Normandy invasion). Ironically, the Nazis made no use of the information for fear that Diello, who operated with the code name "Cicero," was a British plant. Most of the ?300,000 paid to him by the Germans turned out to be counterfeit. Cicero...
...unless he chooses. But it amounted to a rare vote of no confidence, not so much over foreign policy itself as over the way Congress has often been left out of it. During the debate, some Congressmen recalled the results of the secret Churchill-Roosevelt agreements at Yalta and Teheran. Some were still smarting from Harry Truman's dispatch of troops to Korea without formally notifying Congress. The House was reminded that Churchill had hinted that the U.S. should send troops to Suez (although both Washington and London have emphatically denied that this implied any agreement...
...Incipient terrorism" is rife in Iran, a Ntw York Timesman reported last November. He was expelled from the country for saying so. The man who kicked him out, a noisy nationalist named Hussein Fatemi, is Premier Mossadegh's right bower. Fatemi fancies himself a newsman (he edits Teheran's xenophobic Bakhtar Emrooz). He helped light the fires which roasted the British out of Abadan...
Last week, Fatemi went to a Moslem cemetery outside Teheran to address a nationalist gathering at the tomb of Mohammed Massoud, an Iranian newspaperman killed by terrorists in 1948. Fatemi had just reached the climax, declaring: "What is life worth, compared with such high objectives?" when a shaven-headed 15-year-old boy in the audience reached inside his coat and drew out a U.S.-made .45. With both hands, he fired a bullet into Fatemi's belly, only three yards away...
...Teheran voters last week gave Premier Mohammed Mossadegh his newest triumph. In three days of balloting for the Majlis, they elected eleven of Mossadegh's twelve National Front candidates, crushed the threat of the Communist Tudeh Party and whipped his No. 1 parliamentary opponent, wealthy landlord Jamal Imami. The more violently fanatic the candidate, the mere votes that candidate polled. Topping the list: Firebrand Hussein Makki, the Huey Long of the Frontists, closely trailed by Religious Leader Ayatulla Kashani, boss of the gunman-terrorist wing of the Frontist Party. With only one-sixth of the election returns...