The Hallucinogenic Hotel Room

The Hallucinogenic Hotel RoomOne of the Facts of Cold War life is the repeated use, as spies, of American and Soviet civilians traveling or doing research in foreign countries. Often the spies are recruited by coercion--sometimes subtle, sometimes savage.The Defector, an upcoming internationally flavored film starring the late Montgomery Clift, with Germany's Hardy Kruger and France's Macha Meril, presents the confrontation of two such reluctant Cold-Warriors. In the movie, an American physicist...