GERMANY: Tit for Tat

While the snow still whipped through Berlin's cracked walls last winter, a pretty blonde German girl moved from the Russian zone into the U.S. sector of Berlin and entered the Military Government stenographic training school for German girls. Käthe (which was not her name) had a good anti-Nazi record, was quick and bright—and lost no time in setting up a Communist unit in the school.

But Käthe did what a beautiful spy ought never to do—she fell in love with an American junior officer. Into his understanding ears she spilled a story of frequent meetings with two Red Army officers...

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