To: OldPossum
No, it’s not. This was the method by which Colonel Redl, the head of the Austro-Hungarian intelligence service, was “persuaded” to commit suicide rather than be court-martialed for selling secrets to the Russian Empire. (Redl was a homosexual and was being blackmailed.)
20 posted on
05/19/2007 8:08:53 PM PDT by
GAB-1955
(being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Kingdom of Heaven....)
To: GAB-1955
Appreciate the info. Very interesting stuff.
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