Glen Roy Rohrer was a United States Army

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 Sergeant

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, who in August 1965 defected into communist Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

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 and was subsequently used as a propaganda puppet by its communist regime. In the book "Naked Sphinx" (1976), by the Czech regime press, he was presented as an "American military intelligence officer

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" - while in fact he was as a lie detector

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 technician. He died under suspicious circumstances in June 2003, his ashes were scattered on Malvazinky cemetery in Prague

Prague

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, all without the notification of his family.