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...biggest clothing manufacturer, Alfons Muller-Wipperfurth, was grabbed from a hospital bed and jailed on suspicion of tax evasion. In 1962, after Germany's saucy newsmagazine Der Spiegel questioned West Germany's military preparedness, police jailed Publisher Rudolf Augstein and five other Spiegel staffers on suspicion of treason. Released within three months, they still have not been formally charged...
...Ring of Treason is a semi-documentary spy drama so set on realism that it takes one of Britain's most pedestrian episodes of peacetime espionage as a model, apparently to avoid drama, thrills or sex. The movie re-creates events leading to the 1961 conviction of Gordon Arnold Lonsdale, born Konon Trofimovich Molody, who was recently swapped back to the Russians in exchange for Greville Wynne. Still in a British prison for their association with Lonsdale are pub-crawling Chief Petty Officer Henry Houghton; his plump, middle-aged sweetheart Elizabeth Gee, who filched diagrams, manuals and Admiralty fleet...
Briskly acted and filmed, Treason telescopes the story to concentrate on the shambling, corruptible Houghton. He looses his charm on the navy's Miss Gee, a lonely spinster who sits next to a safe full of top secrets, dreaming about love, Monte Carlo and a yellow two-seater sportscar. Their romance, though, consists mainly of weekends in London, and the extent of their moral debauchery is going to a music hall to applaud the Crazy Gang. The film makers warn at the end that "there may be a spy in this very theater, in the very row where...
...erratic Aaron Burr started recruiting men in Louisiana for some mysterious purpose, most likely an invasion of Mexico, Jefferson panicked. He feared that Burr meant to seize New Orleans and detach the Western U.S. Though Burr had been cleared by a federal grand jury, Jefferson pronounced him guilty of treason and had him arrested. When Chief Justice John Mar shall refused to hold Burr on a treason charge for lack of evidence, Jefferson demanded a constitutional amendment making federal judges removable by the President...
...organizing exhibits of British industrial goods behind the Iron Curtain when the Foreign Office (which still officially denies it) pressured him into service as a courier. Wynne shuttled between British intelligence and one of its top Soviet sources, Civil Servant Oleg Penkovsky, who was later shot for treason. Molody had been a seasoned professional who arrived in Britain in 1955 with a Canadian passport and had set up an elaborate and highly successful spy ring...