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I spy.(Unsleeping Eye: A History of Secret Police and Their Victims)(Book Review)

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| April 01, 2003 | Daniels, Anthony | COPYRIGHT 2003 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Robert J. Stove The Unsleeping Eye: A History of Secret Police and Their Victims. Encounter Books, 319 page, $25.95

My slight personal experience of arrest for political reasons has suggested to me that it as often partakes of the quality of farce as of tragedy. I was once arrested as a South African spy in Gabon, but my captor released me in return for a prescription for the syphilis from which he was suffering; I was deported under armed guard from Honduras to Sandinista Nicaragua because it was supposed that anyone who had so many books from El Salvador with him must be an inveterate enemy of Honduras (I had fondly supposed that one of the few advantages of ...

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