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...nefeld has long operated in the shadow of West Berlin's bustling Tempelhof air terminal. All together, 5.5 million air passengers a year stream in and out of West Berlin compared to the 1.5 million who travel to or from East Berlin. Lately, travelers from West Berlin have discovered that Interflug, the East German flag carrier, offers some of the world's greatest fare bargains to those willing to take a bus through the city's dividing wall. Interflug charges only $110 for a round trip to Istanbul, $354 to Teheran and $152 to Beirut...
...nefeld. KLM, in fact, now stops there "on demand" if enough passengers on its Amsterdam-Moscow flight want to get off or on in East Berlin. The airlines' interest in East Berlin is genuine enough, but it might flag if a new agreement permits expanded air service between Tempelhof and Western capitals...
...Berlin in July 1957, after Airman Second Class Thompson, then 22, had been chewed out by his commanding officer because he needed a shave. That night Thompson drowned his resentment in cognac, brooded about his job as a clerk in the Office of Special Investigation at Berlin's Tempelhof Air Base. "You lived in a state of terror," he recalled. "Everyone in our office was watching someone. We all watched each other...
Toward Revenge. About ten days later, Thompson was walking at night near Tempelhof when a black DKW with three men inside pulled up. "They called out my name and told me to get in; one of them had a pistol," said Thompson. "They took me back to the same place I was before, only this time the atmosphere was different. They threatened to 'double-agent' me-meaning one of their agents would get word to my superiors that I was working for them. They interviewed me for nine hours that time, and I smoked a lot of cigars...
...idea of finding a West German girl who resembled her closely, luring the girl to East Berlin and then filching her documents. Winsome Dorothea Voss seemed to fit the bill, and the scheme worked perfectly. Once in West Berlin the reunited couple sped to Tempelhof Airport and winged their way to West Germany...