COMMUNISTS: How They Do It

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"Toward the evening of Sunday, I had given them satisfaction. They gave me a glass of water, a bit of bread which I could not eat, and altered their bearing ... I was given a cigarette, and time to relax and control my trembling—hands, feet, teeth, so that I could write down what I had told them . . ."

Truth. "[After signing an agreement to spy on the Americans], I was led out of the building, and left in a very friendly manner in front of the tram stop . . . Got home, washed, opened a can of sausage with some red wine, and went to bed ...

"Clear memory came back to me on Monday morning, Aug. 22, when I started out to work. My most anxious thoughts then and thereafter were to cleanse myself of some of this depravity and baseness ... by giving the Legation a true statement of the whole affair . . . Therefore, I state in full earnestness and truth, freely and eagerly, that any statement that I may have made orally or in writing to the militia ... is false, untrue, and dragged out of me against my will . . . I want the Legation to bring to the knowledge of the militia that any attempt of theirs to make use of that statement of mine will be countered by exposure of this letter . . ."

Before he left Sofia, Heath tried hard to get the Bulgarian government's permission for Shipkov to leave with him. He failed. Last week's indictment of Shipkov not only demanded his trial but also frankly insisted that he was "to be found guilty and punished."