{"id":32456,"date":"2026-02-28T21:17:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=32456"},"modified":"2026-02-28T21:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:58:00","slug":"feint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/feint\/","title":{"rendered":"feint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the 3rd of June 1976 a prominent but unnamed politician <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Was found dead in a dingy hotel room<strong> <\/strong>in Gdansk <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cause of death was an ice pick <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That had penetrated his left eye<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A known homosexual he was last seen <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the company of slight dark haired youth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initially the killing was hushed up as the deceased <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Had close ties with other Warsaw Pact countries<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And a network of other homosexuals was suspected <br><br><br> On the 5th of June 1976 a Russian businessman <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Was stabbed to death in an alley <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not far from a London underground station <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The assassin was never traced <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As no description was reported<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though Bond Street was thronged with people  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the day of the mysterious and brutal killing  <br><br><br>The authorities in both Poland and England <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suspected that both assassinations were connected <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the murdered Russian businessman had had dealings <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the unnamed Polish politician found dead in Gdansk <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A number of dissidents were rounded up and questioned <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it was obvious that there were no connections  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And for this reason both cases soon became cold  <br><br><br>On a wet and windy day late in October 1976 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stephen Smith  and Vera Kowalewska <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Were married at St Paul&#8217;s Roman Catholic Church in Dover<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where they had set up home since leaving Poland <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both had become teachers in the years since they met<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They honeymooned in the Scottish Highlands <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it was during this happy time <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That they learned that a wanted member <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the Waffen-SS was living under an assumed name <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the town that they called their home <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Klaus Muller had been connected with various atrocities <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Including the murder of at least ten Ethnic Poles<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it was likely that Stephens late uncle <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Had been one of his many victims  <br><br><br> to be continued<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 3rd of June 1976 a prominent but unnamed politician Was found dead in a dingy hotel room in Gdansk The cause of death was an ice pick That had penetrated his left eye A known homosexual he was last seen In the company of slight dark haired youth Initially the killing was hushed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32456"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32468,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32456\/revisions\/32468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}