Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brothman's name was not a new one in the long investigation of Soviet espionage. Elizabeth Bentley, ex-Soviet agent, told a grand jury in 1947 that Brothman, a Columbia University graduate, had given her information which she had passed on to the Soviet ring. Brothman told the jurors that he gave Miss Bentley only simple chemical formulas, and that for the purpose of getting legitimate contracts from Russia for his chemical engineering firm...
...Dennis O'Keefe as a Treasury agent...
Libel in France. When Victor Kravchenko published the bestselling story of his career as a onetime Soviet bureaucrat, I Chose Freedom, a French Communist weekly called him a "liar" and a U.S. secret agent. Kravchenko sued for libel, and in a Parisian courtroom whose atmosphere often resembled a low-comedy brawl there was, nonetheless, enacted a deadly serious debate between the ideologies of two worlds. Largely because of impressive testimony given by a number of former inmates of Russian slave-labor camps, Kravchenko won his case and token damages of 3 francs. His second book, though ineptly written and frequently...
Illegal Evidence? But so far as some Congressmen were concerned, it was only the beginning. Michigan's Republican Representative George Dondero demanded an investigation. Early in 1946 a subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee summoned FBI agents and Justice Department lawyers to hear their stories. Why had Hitchcock made the "deal?" His explanation was that Justice lawyers had suddenly had qualms about the legality of their evidence. They were afraid that the argument might be made that the Government had got on the trail of the stolen documents by illegal means. They were afraid the Government might...
Afterwards, the pair met the press. Said Baritone Robeson: "Yugoslavia has tied itself firmly to the capitalist camp which, at the behest of the Du Fonts and Wall Street, is preparing for a new war." He accused Rogge of being a paid agent of Tito...