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right hand is missing), and we got the hell out of there. All the time
we were scared the Communists would open fire on us but they never did.
We pinned Mao badges on the seat of his trousers, made him grin
and stuck a glass of beer in his hand. Then we got the boys to rustle
up a Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank book and put around the story that he
defected willingly to us, for cash."
The local papers at that time carried pictures of Hunt during
the arrest.7
"We knew that when the time came for him to go back he would have a
hard job explaining it all. But to cut a long story short, we eventually sent
him back. Frank Knight, as everyone will remember, managed to make a miraculous
escape on his own.""
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