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In June 1986, a pair of operatives from communist Czechoslovakia's StB intelligence service made contact with a mysterious couple staying at a Prague hotel. The man's passport identified him as a Syrian diplomat called Walid Wattar; his pregnant wife also had a Syrian diplomatic passport. In fact, the man was Venezuelan-born Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal, perhaps the world's most wanted terrorist at the time. He was with his wife, Magdalena Kopp, recently released from a French prison.
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