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Mission: Possible

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At a Mass in the Scheveningen maximum-security prison four prisoners took 22 captive in total. The police threw magnesium grenades and fifteen marines captured four men.

At a Saturday-night Mass in the Scheveningen maximum-security prison in The Netherlands, four prisoners interrupted the singing of the hymns. Brandishing two pistols and several spring knives that they had smuggled in, they took captive the choir and members of their families, the organist, a priest and two unarmed guards…

Alerted by a secret coded signal from the 747’s pilot, Air Traffic Controller Jan de Haas was sure that a skyjacking was in progress in the skies over the Netherlands.

Air Traffic Controller Jan de Haas stared grimly at his radar screen in the tower at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport: something was terribly wrong with Japan Air Lines Flight 404, which had just taken off for Anchorage en route to Tokyo. Alerted by a secret coded signal from the 747’s pilot,…

People-Smuggling

1969

The methods of people-smugglers, who often succeed in getting their clients to the West, some times get other Westerners into serious difficulties.

Though Communist countries do not ordinarily foster free enterprise, a shadowy group of Western entrepreneurs owes its profits to the existence of the Communist world. It is composed of the people-smugglers, who have made a mechanical — and ruthless — business out of springing refugees from Eastern Europe for a price. The…

End of the Chase

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Last week SS Captain Erich Rajakowitsch, the man who helped organize the roundup of Anne Frank and 110,000 other Dutch Jews was arrested in Austria and held for investigation.

These wretched people are sent to filthy slaughterhouses like a herd of sick, neglected cattle. But I won’t talk about it, I only get nightmares from such thoughts.

—Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank’s nightmares finally ended in the concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen in March…

The Hired Man

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Hendrik Bally, a 65-year old man, nearly deaf and blind, who lived with his boss Farmer Kolkman, was badly treated for years.

In The Netherlands, which takes its welfare-state benefits seriously, a conscientious civil servant in the village of Diepenveen (pop. 4,018) decided to go out and inform a local farm hand named Hendrik Bally in person that the government, now that he had turned 65, would henceforth pay him a pension…

The Jungschlaeger Case

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Dutch citizen Jungschlaeger was accused of conspiring to overthrow the Indonesian government. It became obvious that the trial was overhung with political passions irrelevant to justice.

In none of the newly independent nations of the Far East is hatred for the disinherited colonial masters so bitter and abiding as in Indonesia; in none is the notion of simple courtroom justice so little understood. Indonesia’s bitterness and its slap-happy courtroom practices have reached fever pitch in the…

The Abduction of Anneke

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Two Jewish girls were kept in hiding during the war by non-Jewish families with help from the church. The non-Jewish family and priest were sentenced to prison for abduction.

When the Nazis began rounding up the Jews in Amsterdam, Salesman Elias Beekman and his wife, Sara, slipped their 2½-year-old Anna into the underground just in time. Arrested on June 20, 1943, the parents were gassed to death in a concentration camp in Sobibor, Poland on July 9.

Anna…

To Avoid Embarrassment

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Joseph Petersen, a former research analyst in the N.S.A., pleaded guilty to espionage. He worked for the Dutch, who had learned from him that the U.S. had cracked Dutch codes.

In the U.S. District Court at Alexandria, Va. last week, Joseph Sydney Petersen Jr., 40, a gangling, cross-eyed former research analyst in the National Security Agency, the Government’s topmost secret hive of codebreakers and message-interceptors, pleaded guilty to espionage.

Two months ago, Petersen’s lawyer leaked the information that his client,…

The President

623

The Hague born Robert Lombert, who said he was the supreme head of a worldwide underground organization was accused of swindling and  tossed in jail.

Theodorus Franciscus Lombert does not look much like a power in international affairs. Born at The Hague, this meek-looking, ne’er-do-well son of a tailor spent much of his young manhood pleading in court, but the courts were primarily interested in his connections with a series of shady charities. Nonetheless, all…

Tassman at Work

275

In The Hague, a Tassman, a correspondents for Tass, the official Russian news agency, who often behave more like Communist agents than reporters, was jailed on espionage charges.

Correspondents for Tass, the official Russian news agency, often behave more like Communist agents than reporters. But, though some U.S. newsmen suspect Tassmen, many of whom have little journalistic training, of being spies, they are rarely caught at it. (In Canada, one Tassman skipped home in 1945, just before he…

The Buccaneer

589

Dutch policemen captured notorious Captain Raymond (“Turk”) Westerling, international buccaneer and soldier of misfortune. But there were no grounds for holding him and was freed.

A score of Dutch policemen surrounded a baronial house near Amsterdam before dawn one day last week, while seven others, led by Amsterdam Police Chief Jeremias Posthuma, knocked on the front door. The master of the manor, Count van Rechteren Limpurg, appeared. “We have come for Westerling,” announced Chief Posthuma…

The Struik Case

428

Lecturing in the U.S. Dutchborn Professor Dirk Struik is according to the FBI an active and dedicated Communist. A nationwide fund-raising campaign began in his defense.

Except for a scattering of top-level mathematicians across the nation, and the students in his classes at M.I.T., few Americans had ever heard of Dirk J. Struik when his name first appeared in the news two years ago. He was a mousy-looking mathematician who had come to the U.S. from…

A Mild Little Boy

348

Old Dutch commando force leader Raymond Westerling was jailed in Singapore. U.S.I. officials demanded he be sent to Jakarta, to be tried for “crimes perpetrated by him in Indonesia.”

In Istanbul some 30 years ago, a baby was born to a Dutch antique dealer named Westerling and his Greek wife. Frére Adolphe, who afterwards taught young Raymond Westerling in Istanbul’s French Catholic St. Joseph school, recalled that he was “a mild, well-mannered, moon-faced little boy.” Raymond’s later development was…

The Price of Forgery

267

Artforgerist Van Meegeren had been cleared of collaboration but not of forgery. He had made his pile not by collaborating but by forging seven Vermeers and two Pieter de Hooches.

It was far too much money for an honest Dutchman to have made during the German occupation. But when Artist Hans van Meegeren was accused of collaborating and was asked to explain his quick fortune of $3,024,000, he had an answer ready. Said Van Meegeren: he had made his pile…

Hans van Meegeren, art-forgerist, while awaiting trial in an Amsterdam jail (for collaboration with the Nazis), was painting another Vermeer.

When one Hans van Meegeren, a little-known Dutch Nazi painter, owned to forging seven recently “discovered” Vermeers (TIME, July 30), art experts laughed him off as a nut. They had reason to: the masterpieces had been painstakingly authenticated by them, by chemical, X-ray and infra-red tests.

Last week, while awaiting …

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