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...room on the second floor of Teheran's Majlis (Parliament) building was as bare as a hermit's cell. It was furnished with a sagging cot, a few dingy chairs, a foot locker, and a small table on which rested a half-used box of Kleenex, a bottle of ink, and a key ring with three keys. The only spot of color in the drab room was supplied by a bright blue enamel chamberpot under...
When he was released (due to intercession by the crown prince) after 4½ months in a basement cell, Mossadeq was unable to walk. He made a partial physical recovery, but psychologically, close associates say, he still bears the injuries of his imprisonment...
Dressed in the scarlet death-cell garb, the seven condemned Nazis waited in Landsberg prison for their midnight appointment with the hangman. The hearses with the empty coffins were ready to take the bodies to home-town cemeteries. Late in the evening the men said goodbye to their wives...
...first order that came to Zbigniew Stypulkowski, Polish underground leader in his cell in Moscow's Lubianka prison, made him laugh. A handsome, strapping girl of about 20 entered the cell, yapped one word: "Undress." She had to repeat it twice before he took her seriously, stripped self-consciously to the buff. Poking about clinically, she asked, "Have you syphilis?" and then stalked...
Each prisoner had his personal inquisitor. Stypulkowski's was a stocky, yellow-faced major named Tichonov. Meshing physical with psychological tactics, Tichonov soon tightened his prisoner's nerves till they hummed. First, there was the long ominous walk from the cell to the examining room,hands pinned back. Dry-mouthed with anxiety, Stypulkowski might find Tichonov cajoling or coercive but never twice in a row the same. "You German hireling!" (or sometimes, "British spy"), he would rant. "Don't try to cheat the Soviet Union. . . We know everything." Or, satan-smooth...