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...since Stalin's death three months earlier had the men at the top seemed so jittery. Suety Georgy Malenkov nervously eyed dour old Vyacheslav Molotov, his longtime rival for Stalin's favor and now his partner, along with Lavrenty Beria, in the triumvirate chosen to run Russia. Even bouncy Nikita Khrushchev was unwontedly subdued. Only prim, beady-eyed Beria, Russia's top cop, seemed unconcerned. Of all the men in the conference room and an adjoining office, only Beria was ignorant of the meeting's real purpose...
Thus last week did the case of the Soble brothers near its climax. Members of a well-to-do Lithuanian family, they had, according to Jack, been recruited for espionage work around 1940 by Soviet Secret Police Boss Lavrenty Beria. He had promised them and 13 relatives safe passage to the U.S. in return for their services. Jack and his wife Myra were arrested in 1957; he admitted his guilt, and in return for turning state's evidence was sentenced to only seven years. Robert, a psychiatrist, was arrested last November and has since kept his silence...
...steppe-like sweep of Russian history and offers a carefully balanced account of the Soviet regime. He places Stalin in the succession of grandiose tyrants who either demoniacally (Ivan the Terrible) or pragmatically (Catherine the Great) have ruled Russia with the knout. One memorable vignette: Secret Police Chief Beria reviling the comatose Stalin as a monster on his deathbed and then dropping to his knees in slobbering sycophancy as the unconscious dictator raises an arm in eerily imperious command. Most striking photographs: the corps de ballet of the Bolshoi company dancing Swan Lake as if in shimmering blue moonlight...
According to the U.S. charges, as far back as 1940, Lithuanian-born Robert Soblen and his brother Jack made a bargain with Soviet Secret Police Chief Lavrenty Beria. The deal: both men agreed to come to the U.S. and set up separate spy rings, and Beria in exchange permitted their families-some 15 persons in all-to emigrate with them. Dr. Soblen, the Government charges, procured secret documents of the World War II Office of Strategic Services, information about an "atomic-bomb project on the Northwest Coast," photographs of the Sandia nuclear-weapons development center at Albuquerque-and arranged...
...denounced three years ago in his dramatic, weepy oration to the 20th Party Congress as a maniac who had deported, tortured and killed by the millions. Describing Stalin's last days, in the first such account ever given a Westerner, Khrushchev told Harriman that for three days he, Beria, Bulganin and Malenkov had kept their vigil at Stalin's dacha while the great man lay in a final coma. Suddenly. Stalin awoke, and weakly pointing to a picture of a little girl feeding a lamb, "indicated by his gesture that now he was as helpless as the lamb...