Espionage: Midsummer Dragnet

Throughout the world last week, secret agents were on the move—many of them in the direction of jail. The U.S. had just rounded up its Fourth of July catch; West Germany was trying three spies who had penetrated its supposedly impenetrable Gehlen intelligence organization (see following story); and Britain had two spy thrillers running concurrently.

Defeated Machinery. On trial in London, Italian-born Atomic Physicist Giuseppe Martelli tried to explain away his possession of hollow-heeled shoes suitable for concealing microfilm, cigarette packs containing thin, inflammable message pads, sheets of rendezvous instructions, a...

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