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Over the years, and after many hundreds of hours of discussion between the two, there developed a friendly relationship between them and they began a surreptitious collaboration on a book about Hess and his enigmatic flight to
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In March 1971, Bird's superiors at the U.S. Mission in Berlin became "officially" aware (Bird claimed he had submitted pages of the manuscript to various officials long before this) of the Bird/Hess manuscripts and other documents relating to the proposed book. Bird was interrogated in great detail,
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