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...deep. Just after the cheerless dawn, old Professor Piccard, a black Basque beret over his white hair, boarded the Trieste from an Italian navy corvette and climbed down a tube leading to the pressure sphere. His son, Jacques, 30, was already on board, crammed among oxygen bottles, apparatus and 102 instruments, including a movie camera. When the professor closed a massive door, the Trieste was ready to dive. Men from the corvette opened valves, letting sea water into parts of the floater. They scurried aboard their boats, and the Trieste sank gently under the grey...
...with the Super. Washington got its first atomic jolt in early September 1949, after the detection apparatus picked up indisputable evidence that the Russians had set off their first atomic explosion (now dubbed "Joe I"). The scientists had been warning all along that the U.S. monopoly was a highly perishable item, but this proved that it was even more perishable than they had thought. The evidence showed that the Russian explosion was not just an evolutionary "model T" bomb like Alamogordo. It was a plutonium bomb, demonstrating that the Russians must already have built a large atomic plant rivaling some...
Petticoats & Plots. Cardinal Richelieu, with the aid of his Grey Eminence, Father Joseph, gave France its first effective espionage apparatus. By the early years of the Napoleonic wars, the French secret service under Joseph Fouche was Europe's best. (In 1809 Fouche's men intercepted a British intelligence report written in invisible ink on an agent's petticoat-a device that was considered highly original when it cropped up again during World War I.) Characteristically, however, it was Prussia that introduced Europe to mass espionage. Wilhelm Stieber, spymaster to Bismarck, boasted that he had some...
...liberties and favors showered on Beria by Stalin created the impression among outsiders that Beria was all-powerful in his Ministry of Internal Affairs. But an old killer like Stalin was not the kind of man to turn over such power to another. Evidently, a super-police apparatus channeled directly from Stalin to key control points in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Such an apparatus was already created in the Orgburo and the Party Control Commission, by which Stalin organized himself into power after Lenin's death, and which later became a department of personnel in the Kremlin. Only...
...sensible were to be found in a British intelligence appraisal prepared for Prime Minister Churchill. Its conclusion: the rule of oligarchy in Russia (i.e., "collective leadership") is disintegrating; the struggle for power is between bosses, not between clear-cut factions like the party and the police. The police apparatus, which survived the destruction of previous bosses, is now in Malenkov's hands...