Word: ciszek
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...same net, FBI men in New York had snared Ivan D. Egorov, 41, a member of the United Nations Secretariat, and his wife Aleksandra. They too were charged with espionage but were later swapped for the return of two Americans held by the Soviets - Jesuit Priest Walter Ciszek and Marvin W. Makinen, a Fulbright scholar from Asburnham, Mass. Was there another swap in the wind...
...Soviet U.N. functionary, and his wife Alexandra, who were arrested last July in New York for espionage. In return, the Soviets let go 24-year-old Fulbright Scholar Marvin Makinen, who was sentenced to eight years in prison in 1961 on photo-taking espionage charges; and Jesuit Priest Walter Ciszek, 58, who had been arrested in Poland...
...first imprisoned and then "paroled" to work as an automobile mechanic in Siberia, Ciszek was given up for dead-until 1955 when his family got a post card from...
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