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Barefoot & Ragged. In his short lifetime (he was 43 when he died), Gorky knew more than his share of sorrow. Born Vosdanig Adoian in Turkish Armenia, he was three when his father deserted the family and ran away to avoid being conscripted into the Turkish army. During the Turkish massacres of the Armenians, his mother fled with the boy and his three sisters to Erivan in Russian Armenia. After his mother died at the age of 38, Gorky and his youngest sister decided to go to the U.S. Barefoot and ragged, they made their way to Tiflis. There they joined...
Nightmares Relived. Other revelations about other nogoodniks: former Premier Georgy Malenkov had staged the whole sale slaughter of loyal party members in Armenia and Byelorussia; ex-Deputy Premier Lazar Kaganovich, who personally hand-picked Khrushchev from obscurity for his first major job in the '305 as secretary of the Moscow party committee, was assailed as a cruel assassin who had once rejected an old comrade's appeal by scrawling across it: "Only one punishment-death...
...ostensible reason for Mikoyan's visit was to open the Soviet Trade Fair in Tokyo's huge, domed exhibition hall on the Harumi waterfront. The fair was jammed with 9,000 examples of Soviet products, from tractors to Armenian rugs (cooed Armenia-born Mikoyan: "My mother used to make such rugs"). It was also outfitted with an artless array of Soviet propaganda, from pictures of Spacemen Gagarin and Titov to such slogans as "Soviet Union takes the lead in banning nuclear weapons," and "Hiroshima must not be repeated." Despite all this, the most popular spot...
...years by U.S. ships and planes patrolling the long coastline of the Russian heartland. The Navy bomber shot down over the Baltic in the spring of 1950 was on a ferret mission. So was the Air Force C-130 transport that was lured by false radio beams into Soviet Armenia and shot down in September 1958. (Of the 17 men on board, the Russians eventually returned six bodies; they still insist that they have no knowledge of the remaining eleven.) During the past ten years, at least 75 Americans have been killed on ferret missions near the Soviet border...
Shocking Breach. Had any of this information turned up in time, NSA might have checked more closely on its men. But there had been an even more obvious signal for caution. When a U.S.A.F. C-130 plane was shot down near Soviet Armenia in 1958, Martin and Mitchell were convinced that the plane and its crew were involved in espionage, were offended with the U.S. claim that the plane had been attacked in innocent flight. They took their suspicions to Ohio Congressman Wayne Hays, who had spoken out against the secrecy surrounding the C-130 flight. A cursory glance...