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In the summer of 1955 a relatively naive and uninformed John Cohen (born 1932) crossed the straits of Gibraltar. He arrived in Tangier with a handwritten note in Arabic; the man who had composed it in New York had told him to "keep this paper far from your passport." Cohen had no idea why, or indeed what the note said; it was not addressed to a specific person. He was simply...
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