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Fugitive spy Robert A. Soblen died Tuesday and escaped the life sentence that awaited him in a United States prison for war time espionage for the Soviet Union. Dr. Soblen, 61, died in Hillindon hospital, where he had lain unconscious since last Thursday. He had taken an overdose of barbiturates just before he was removed from Brixton prison for deportation to the United States.
Dr. Cyril Barnes, who was in charge of Soblen's treatment, told newsmen Soblen's death was due not to the drugs he had taken but to "exhaustion following convulsions and damage to the brain, presumably caused by hemorrhage."
