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Soviet spy Robert Soblen poisoning (suicide)...
Soviet spy Robert Soblen poisoning (suicide)...
Item # 719170
September 06, 1962
THE DETROIT NEWS, Sept. 6, 1962
* Soviet Union spy Robert Soblen
* KGB - Communist Party member
* Overdosing on barbiturates (suicide)
The front page has a banner headline: "SOBLEN TAKES POISON" with subheads. (see images) Soblen would die a few days later.
Complete with 50+ pages, a few library stamps within the masthead, some small binding holes along the spine, nice condition.
history notes: Robert A. Soblen, a Lithuanian-born psychiatrist and Soviet spy, died on September 11, 1962, in a London hospital from a self-administered barbiturate overdose, a deliberate suicide to avoid deportation to the United States where he faced a life sentence for espionage. Convicted in 1961 for passing secret OSS documents and nuclear test site photographs to the Soviet Union during and after World War II, Soblen fled to Israel on a forged passport after his U.S. appeals failed, only to be expelled for illegal entry. While awaiting extradition from the UK after a prior suicide attempt by stabbing himself on a deportation flight, he ingested a fatal dose of barbiturates, a common suicide method at the time due to their accessibility and ability to cause respiratory failure. His death, confirmed by British doctors who noted his leukemia was dormant, marked a dramatic end to a high-profile espionage case that sparked debates over judicial fairness, asylum policies, and Israeli extradition laws.
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