“I had to smell bad and I had to be dirty.” A U.S. arms designer stopped bathing and rubbed chocolate under his fingernails as part of a disguise to evade capture and escape Russian-controlled Mariupol.
U.S. arms designer stopped bathing, rubbed chocolate under his fingernails as part of his attempt to evade capture
American nuclear physicist John Spor fled Mariupol after discovering that Russian agents were searching for him.In February, John Spor, a U.S. arms designer, received a predawn call from a senior U.S. military officer urging him to immediately leave the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, his adopted home for more than a decade. The Russians were advancing across the border, said the man, an active duty officer who was an acquaintance and acting in his own capacity.