Word: carr
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...morning last week FBI agents knocked at the apartment door. When they left, they took Mr. Lewis with them. A few hours later the FBI announced that Mr. Lewis was the long-sought Sam Carr, a top agent of the wartime Soviet spy ring in Canada. Carr was turned over to the U.S. Immigration Department to await a deportation hearing on Ellis Island. There he was joined by his wife, who had come down to the U.S. from Toronto last December without a visitor's permit, and had stayed beyond the 29-day limit. Mrs. Carr was asked...
Three-Year Search. Sam Carr's arrest ended a three-year search. The Mounties had plastered Canada with "Wanted" signs after Carr disappeared early in 1946 just ahead of a subpoena from the Royal Commission on espionage. The commission, whose report gave a full chapter to Sam Carr, called him "the main Canadian cog" in the Russian military espionage organization in Canada...
Almost from the time that Russian-born Schmil Kogan (alias Cohen, alias Carr, alias Lewis) arrived in Canada in 1924, the commission found, he was a professional Communist. After a stint on the prairies as a laborer, he showed up in Montreal as an organizer for the Young Communist League. Within two years he joined the Communist Party (outlawed by an Ontario court in 1931 and by the Dominion government in 1940, reborn in 1943 as the Labor Progressive Party...
Hideout. For two years-which police think he spent at a hideout in Philadelphia-Carr wrote for Communist papers in Britain and the U.S. When Russia had been in the war over a year, Carr gave himself up to the Mounties. After a ten-day internment he was released on his promise to stay out of Communist activities...
What had Mathilde Carré wanted from life? During the trial, the prosecution had read this, from her diary: "What I wanted most was a good meal, a man, and, once more, Mozart's Requiem...