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...Terrible Trap? (Cont...
...rose to the General Staff and became chief of counter-intelligence for Austro-Hungary. His agents spider-webbed czarist Russia, and at home he confounded Russian spies who sought Austro-Hungarian military secrets. But talented Alfred Redl had one terrible weakness: he was a homosexual. Russian agents contrived a trap and caught him one day; then they threatened to expose him unless he turned traitor. Redl turned, for eleven years served Russia as a master spy-within-a-spy. The extent of his treason was discovered after war broke out in 1914: Russia knew the Austro-Hungarian and German...
Echoing Russia's Malik, Wu denounced the proposal as "a trap of the U.S. ruling circle." This week, he announced, he would fly back to Peking...
...with China is unthinkable; it would be a sinkhole of Western strength, a "trap" plotted in Moscow to divert the West from defense of Europe...
...have come back from their missions looking like flying junk shops (see cut). One of them flew into a trap of cables strung between two peaks. The cables tore off both wing tip tanks and cut into the spar in the leading edge of the wing. They sheared off the left wing tip and 20 inches of the aileron. But the pilot climbed to 30,000 feet and got home, landing at 170 m.p.h. and taxiing up to the line under his own power. "It takes almost a direct hit by heavy antiaircraft," said one pilot, "to bring down...