Word: walcott
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bluffing in Bombay. The next place where Walcott waived a law was Beirut. He aroused the suspicion of the Lebanese counterintelligence, which charged that Walcott had taken aerial photographs of Lebanese military installations and sold them to Israeli agents. Before they could arrest him, Walcott skipped out, leaving behind his plane. A Lebanese military court sentenced him to seven years' imprisonment at hard labor. But by that time Walcott had been in London to recruit two pilots and rent a plane under the pretext that he ran a freight-hauling service for oil companies in the Middle East. Picking...
Just about everything went wrong. The contact man who was to meet him on a beach 50 miles south of Bombay was not there, and the plane's nose wheel collapsed on landing, bending the propellers in the sand. Undismayed, Walcott coolly ordered the local police to guard the plane while he and the co-pilot caught a bus to Bombay, taking along two suitcases full of watches. In Bombay, Walcott apparently quietly disposed of the watches and picked up the second pilot. Then all three men bluffed their way into the line of debarking passengers at Bombay...
...soon. At the site of the nosed-in plane, police found a hastily buried box. What that box contained the police refused to say, but whatever it was prompted India's Central Bureau of Investigation to assign a team of topflight investigators to try and track down Walcott. His trail led first to Europe again, then doubled back to Pakistan, where he showed up with a converted B-26 bomber shortly before last autumn's border war. The Pakistanis suspected that he was air-dropping watches and gold into India, but before they could interrogate him, Walcott skipped...
Taped-On Diamonds. It was a routine police check that finally caught Walcott. Using a British passport in the name of Barry Phillips Charles Comyn, Walcott and an accomplice apparently went to India last month by sea and rail from Ceylon and registered at a fashionable Bombay hotel. A detective questioning the hotel staff about foreign guests learned that the two men often made person-to-person calls to Colombo. The name they asked for, remembered the detective, belonged to Walcott's contact man there...
After calling up reinforcements, police rapped on "Comyn's" door. When it opened, there was Walcott. A search revealed diamonds taped to the sole of his foot with a Band-Aid and other stones in a sock, which all together were valued at $32,500. For six hours of nonstop grilling, Walcott refused to admit his true identity. Then, according to the police, he broke down and began to tell all. Acting on his information, police have already pulled in several suspects and some smuggling gear, including a jacket with specially constructed pockets for carrying gold bars. Many Bombay...