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...Finnish Fascist revolt that petered out so dismally fortnight ago (TIME, March 14) was punctured last week by the murder of Minna Craucher. Minna Craucher, brilliant, amiable and 40, was a well-known character in Finland. She started her career as a secret agent for the early Soviet Cheka. After the War her house in Helsingfors was a salon for Finnish writers and artists. Dozens of novelists dramatized her adventures. Minna Craucher kept up her spying, was jailed three times for fraud. She knew a great deal about the Lapuan movement and at the beginning of the revolt, when...
Menzhinsky, The Chief of the G. P. U. is Viacheslav Rudolphovitch Menzhinsky, son of a former nobleman and a Pole, like his late, great predecessor Felix Edmundovitch Dzerzhinsky, first head of the Ogpu which was then called the Cheka...
Consternation! Nuntia is the popular name for Germany's most secret, most unmentionable police organization. It is as unmentionable as Russia's famed Cheka. The embarrassed judge hastily dismissed the witness, adjourned court for three days...
...thrown bombs. Now a wall of the O. G. P. U. building gaped with a great jagged hole. As the white clad stretcher bearers rushed within, a crowd of ambulance chasers gathered speculatively upon the pavement. Perhaps they would see the great V. G. Menzhinsky, Chief of the "Cheka," carried forth, maimed and bleeding upon a strip of canvas stretched between two poles...
Four days later the prestige of the 0. G. P. U. was further upheld by the execution of five of the engineers recently sentenced to Death at the great Shahkta Trial (TIME, July 2; July 16). "Cheka" agents had assembled the evidence on which they were convicted. Soldiers attached to the O. G. P. U. fired, last week, the five final volleys...