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...other is Amtorg Trading Corp., a New York City-based corporation that imports a wide range of Soviet goods into...
...similar wave of harassment in 1971, seemed to be provoked by some anti-Soviet attacks in New York City: a bullet fired at a Russian residence, a bomb blast outside the Aeroflot office and an unexploded bomb found last week in a building housing the Soviet trade organization Amtorg. Though the militantly anti-Soviet Jewish Defense League has been responsible for some earlier outrages against Soviet officials in the U.S., another group called the Jewish Armed Resistance claimed credit, if that is the word, for the Amtorg bomb. While the New York incidents were certainly silly as well as criminal...
...Strategic Air Command. Trailed for six months by FBI agents, Butenko was picked up in his automobile at a deserted railroad station one night in October 1963. With him were two Soviet diplomats (since expelled from the U.S. after invoking diplomatic immunity), and Igor Ivanov, a "chauffeur" for Amtorg, the Soviet trade agency...
...Cohen went on to take a degree at Mississippi State College, later fought with the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War (his nom de guerre: Israel Altman), hired out as a guard at the Soviet pavilion during the 1939 New York World's Fair, worked for the Soviet Amtorg Trading Corp. in 1942. Around the time of the Ethel and Julius Rosenberg spy trial in 1951, the Cohens ducked from sight. The FBI was not looking for them then but for reasons unrevealed, began taking an interest in them during the Rudolf Ivanovich Abel spy case in 1957. When...
Ladejinsky, the statement charged, had "required clearance from the Communist Party" to work for Amtorg in 1930. "He may be subject to coercion," because of three sisters living in Soviet Russia. "His trip to the U.S.S.R. in 1939 as a tourist [and] his membership in two Communist-front organizations, as well as information contained in classified reports, [prevent] the necessary security clearance required for the position of attache...