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Surreptitious Entries Black Bag Jobs — Part 24
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. ; OF Arab countries, Poland, Yu-0f the Czech deputy chief of!
‘ goslavia, France and Japan, Security going to the Soviet!
, stole @ coding machine trom Embassy with his hat in his ~
the Czechoslovak Embassy and hand," Newsweek quoted one; -
blocked a New York City police *ource as having said.
inquiry into a break-in at thei “The Czechs couldn't even.
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and missions, criminal hideouts F.B.1. spokesman, Homer Boyn-
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mi oups such as the Ku Klux comment” on the report of|
, Kian and the American Com F.B.I. break-ins at embassies |
miunist party, the Newsweek and missions,
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ay re “Embassy break-ins, averag-'20C add anything to the state-.
& ming. one a month by one esti ment by the F.BI. director,
merece mate, were usually staged to Clarence M. Kelley, at a news
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