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dated December 12, 1952: Ship Captain's Blackmail Threat

Israeli officials reported receiving a spate of telegrams from a sea captain threatening to sink his freighter ship in the Atlantic Ocean unless his father was made Communications Minister of Israel. They said 24-year-old Captain Eden Garett, Master of the 5,686-ton "Abrahams Graetz", had threatened his crew with a revolver, after seeming to have suffered a nervous breakdown.

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