ABSTRACT

The next afternoon as Jerry Rosanbalm lay in bed with Karel Rohan, he heard noises-someone was trying to force his way into the apartment. Naked and armed with a tennis racket, Jerry leapt into the hallway to investigate, when the door burst open and a cadre of military police crashed in. With guns drawn and cameras ready, military police shouted their disappointment at not having caught the two in bed. Karel made a vain attempt to hide under the covers as agents pressed into the bedroom and then tried to force Rosanbalm onto the bed for the photographer. After Rosanbalm fought off the agents with his tennis racket, somebody yelled, "Screw it-just arrest him." The agents dragged both men naked out of the bedroom and pronounced Captain Gerald Lynn Rosanbalm under arrest for espionage against the United States.1