Foreign News: The Third Man

Never far from the side of Bulganin and Khrushchev in Asia was a shadowy Third Man. He had a thin, sharp face with fine lines around pale grey-blue eyes, a firm mouth and straight nose, a high forehead, thinning brown hair and sandy eyebrows. He was broad and short, and it was noted that his shoes had extra-thick soles. His hands were large and hairless with thick, short fingers. He wore only grey-blue suits. Correspondents took him for a plain-clothes cop on a tour of VIP duty, but they soon learned that this was...

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