Word: felix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart of the Basque country, a horse-drawn police van clattered down the cobblestoned Street of the Founder of the Handmaidens of Jesus and stopped at the decaying old courthouse. Two prisoners stepped out. From the watching crowd a woman and a small girl darted forward, crying, "Felix! . . . Papa!" The woman tried to kiss the husband she had not seen for almost three years; the child threw herself into his arms. Grey-clad police intervened. "In with you!" they said gruffly, and the two prisoners disappeared into the courthouse, to join 15 others for trial...
...book, Witness, Chambers describes the man whom he knew only as "Felix," and who knew him as "Bob," thus: "I did not particularly like Felix. He looked like an average young fellow, seemingly simple, not overbright." Many times, in the late '305, Chambers met Felix on a Washington or Baltimore street corner, gave him documents to be photographed with a Leica purchased by the Communist underground. For such work, Felix had been trained in Moscow, where he traveled on a forged U.S. passport. Once Chambers went to Felix's Baltimore home, but he had only a vague impression...
...Central Park. In 1949 Chambers led the FBI to the block in which he thought Felix had lived. From records, the FBI found that a Felix Inslerman had lived in one of the block's houses, had moved to Schenectady, N.Y. to work as an engineer on a secret guided-missile project for General Electric. In 1946 Inslerman, in a way never publicly explained, became one of the few civilians who attended the atomic tests at Bikini. Called to testify before a grand jury and in the second Hiss trial, Inslerman confessed nothing, pleaded the Fifth Amendment...
...stand last week, Felix Inslerman said he had never actually carried a Communist card, but he recited the events which led him from a 1934 meeting in New York's Central Park with an Estonian named "Bill" to his dealings with Chambers. Bill paid him in cash, Felix said, for various services to the party, arranged for his trip to Moscow and introduced...
...copy, he said, of part of a letter he received from a man, name unknown, on a Washington street corner in 1938. He was to deliver the letter, which was written by "Bob" after his break with the party, to one "Jake," Inslerman's New York contact. Felix, in characteristic underground fashion, copied the letter before delivering it. He had lost part of his notes. What remained was garbled by wear and tear, and much of it was in underground jargon. It read...