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...visit to Russia. Had Oswald been recruited as a Russian agent while he was still in the Marines, it is most improbable that he would have been encouraged to defect. He would have been of greater value to Russian intelligence as a Marine radar operator than as a defector...
...What was not to be expected was Tung's real motive for taking the assignment. Last May 26, after only a day on the job, he walked out of the Paguidas-Haidemenos, hailed a taxi, and told the driver: "Quick, the U.S. embassy." Minutes later he became a defector-the second Chinese Communist official ever to seek sanctuary with Americans...
...eventually defecting were much the same. One factor was homesickness: "It is harder to hide and fight in the hills near your home and not be able to go to it than it is to be far away from it." More important was their disillusionment with Communism. As one defector put it: "They told us the Americans were running all of South Viet Nam and that living was very bad there. When we had a chance to see for ourselves, we learned that the Vietnamese were still running Viet Nam, and things in the south were better than...
...from the lenses of binoculars as nervous officers searched the streets for signs of the enemy. But the town was empty of armed opposition, and all eyes lifted to the sere, sawback massif that reared beyond. Up there, among the blue defiles of the Aures Mountains, waited the latest defector from Premier Ahmed ben Bella's socialist paradise, and with him were 9,000 well-armed veterans ready for resistance, rebellion or death...
When cops descended eleven months ago on Umkonto's "headquarters," an isolated farm at Rivonia north of Johannesburg, they found 106 maps of selected sabotage targets-among them police and power stations, post offices, homes of African officials. One prosecution witness who claimed to be an Umkonto defector said he had blown up power-line pylons in Natal and government offices in Durban, sent bombs wrapped as Christmas presents to government officials (none apparently exploded). Wary of its world image, Umkonto was careful to order its saboteurs not to kill, in fact forbade them even to carry arms...