Word: ederer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...court-martial in Salzburg last week convicted an American corporal and a sergeant of kidnaping. Corporal Paul Abel got 20 years and Sergeant John Frankey got 15 years after they confessed that they had taken $653 from the Russians to abduct a gardener named Oswald Eder, a double spy who served both the Russians and the Allies (TIME...
...investigation of the Eder case uncovered more guilt than Abel's and Fran-key's. Their battalion, the 796th Military Police, has 600 men. More than 100 knew about the kidnaping; 20 of them had been approached by those who wanted Eder kidnaped. None reported the proposition or the kidnaping to U.S. authorities. The 796th has many black-marketeers, some, called the "three-to-two boys," who lend money on a basis of $300 returned for every $200 advanced. Three-quarters of the MPs in the battalion are under 21, and most of them have been subject...
...Armistice Day. Just outside Vienna, in the Russian occupation zone, a U.S. Army jeep turned into a side road. Between the dark, heavy-set U.S. soldier at the wheel and the slight, fair-haired soldier on the right cowered an Austrian civilian named Oswald Eder. "Where are you taking me?" he cried. The smaller soldier jammed a gun into his ribs and snarled: "Shut up!" The jeep stopped, and at gunpoint, his escorts forced Eder into the waiting arms of seven Russian agents who set upon him with fists and revolver butts...
...beating are nothing unusual in occupied Vienna, where the bare description of a day's events is apt to read like a Raymond Chandler thriller; since 1945, Russians have kidnaped 660 people in Vienna, usually political "suspects." What was unusual and shocking about the abduction of Oswald Eder on Armistice Day was that it was executed by American G.I.s who had hired themselves out to the Russians...
...Russians offered the G.I.s 7,000 schillings ($269) to kidnap Eder, who was a night watchman in a Vienna radio-manufacturing plant and, in spy parlance, a "torpedo," i.e., an agent who informed against the Russians. For a while he had also informed the Russians about the West, but the Reds discovered that he took pay from both sides. They decided that he had better be put out of the way. Frankey and Abel accepted the commission. They lured Eder into a borrowed jeep by telling him that he was wanted by U.S. authorities. After Eder had been delivered...