The World - News from June 18, 1986
Police in Rotterdam dug up the remains of a notorious Dutch World War II traitor, ending speculation that he had escaped overseas in 1946 after a fake suicide. Examination of the remains confirmed that Christiaan Lindemans, a double agent who betrayed about 250 resistance fighters to the Nazis, died and was buried in the Netherlands 40 years ago.
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