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Died. Wladyslaw Tykocinski, 46, top-ranking Polish diplomat who defected to the West in 1965; of an apparent heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Finding "only a cynical exploitation of human opportunism and fear" in Poland, Tykocinski turned himself in to a U.S. Army sergeant in West Berlin, quitting his strategic post as head of the Polish Military Mission in West Berlin. Stung by his defection, a military tribunal in Warsaw last year tried him in absentia and sentenced him to death...
...minutes later, Wladyslaw Tykocinski, 44, approached a U.S. Army sergeant outside the snack bar of the nearby American-sector PX, identified himself as the chief of the Polish Military Mission to West Berlin, and asked for political asylum...
...Tykocinski, who for eight years had been the ranking Polish diplomat in West Berlin, was the most important Communist to defect to the West in years. He was also one of the most puzzling. Known to fellow diplomats as "the Gypsy Baron," Tykocinski is a gregarious bear of a man who liked to claim he was "a socialist but not a Communist." Nevertheless, he enjoyed the full confidence of his government, for the Berlin post was obviously a major intelligence center, and last year he was awarded Poland's Commander Cross for outstanding services. Outside the PX last week...
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