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...nights later, Volodya, Ivan and Vanya met again. Hidden all around were FBI men, eavesdropping, shooting movies and taking still pictures They quickly identified Ivan the Driver as Gennadi G. Sevastyanov, 33-a Russian "diplomat" carried on the rolls of the Soviet embassy as a "cultural attaché." He was actually a member of KGB-the Soviet secret police, trying to recruit a spy. "Which side are you on-ours or the Americans?" he asked Vanya. "You could better your position in life if you would cooperate." He quizzed Vanya about his intelligence work, told him candidly: "We want operational...
First, there was the Christine-Profumo affair itself, which, according to Profumo, lasted only a few months, from July to December 1961, but by other evidence possibly lasted longer. During those same months, Christine also entertained Russian Assistant Naval Attaché Evgeny Ivanov, who had been pals for some time with her mentor, Dr. Stephen Ward. M15, British intelligence, apparently discovered only half of what Wilson scathingly called "this dingy quadrilateral." In August 1961, according to the Commons debate, Cabinet Secretary Sir Norman Brook warned Profumo that it would be better for the Secretary...
...offensive. Communist Rumania, which has been feuding with the Kremlin over Moscow's interference in its economic affairs, gleefully published a lengthy summary of the Red Chinese indictment. Peking's embassy in Moscow boldly distributed Russian-language copies of its manifesto. Callers were greeted by an attaché, and after a polite chat over tea, got as many translations of the 63-page document as they wanted...
...advertising that they are beginning to lean toward the same prestige symbols as Americans. Bantu men looking for British respectability in their attire have long bought the most expensive clothes they could afford. Mkele suggested that stores also stock "a dignity bag in the form of a reasonably priced attaché case." When they hit the Bantu market, the attaché cases sold like-well, like attaché cases sell along the New Haven Railroad...
...CRIMSON launched an attach against the private tutoring services parasitically lodged around the Square; and with this move it inaugurated a campaign which all the College's organizations and publications maintained jointly for over three years, until the tutoring schools were finally forced to close down...