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...Valtin, ex-OGPU agent who told all in his best-selling Out of the Night (1941), was jugged (and then released) as an undesirable alien (1942), served with the armed forces in the Pacific, and finally became a U.S. citizen last January, was still roller-coastering. In New Haven, Conn., the U.S. Attorney went to court to appeal the order giving him citizenship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 5, 1947 | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...Lavrenti Beria - "scholarly-looking, soft-spoken . . . who looks like a physician but whose innocent-sounding title. Commissar for Internal Affairs, means that he is the head of the NKVD [ex-Ogpu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fun in War | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

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