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...Deryeshnev they were arrested and sent on to Khabarovsk, where they were told the GPU would determine their status. At Khabarovsk another official asked them: "Who is your father?" Said Peter: "He is a farmer. He owns 160 acres, 38 hogs, some farm machinery, four horses, and 15 head of cattle." "Ah, ha!" said the prosecutor. "Your father is a kulak." So Peter and John Stevens were thrown into a nice, new Soviet prison, six stories tall, and tried for espionage...
...self-endowed orchestra and publishing house, offered him instead the post of Russia's musical head man. He declined, though he accepted for a time the conductorship of Petrograd's State Orchestra, where his dictatorial instincts were continually curbed by bureaucratic rules & regulations. Once officers of the GPU caught him attempting to escape to Estonia. When he did finally succeed in getting a passport to leave the country, he abandoned virtually all of his money and personal property to the Soviet Government...
...true that my son suffered from a chronic intestinal disease," complained Trotsky from his Mexican refuge. "I don't have direct data that the death of L. Sedov is the handiwork of the GPU [Soviet secret police]. . . . At the disposal of the GPU there are very exceptional scientists and technical means, which makes the problem of medical examination very difficult...
...encouraged by Kate, a newspaperwoman, who, rather obviously, really cares for him, and whom he does not appreciate. Eventually, he is discharged by his paper, for running off with the feminine impediments of his chief, and indulges in long recriminations. He succeeds, however, in having the head of GPU shot at by mistake, taking the bullet himself, and attempting to receive the credit. He is thrown into jail, but talks himself out, and leaves, reinstated by his paper, to marry Kate, of whose value he has finally become aware...
Espionage. The dread Ogpu (sometimes abbreviated Gpu) or secret police is given its unfamiliar official designation by Mr. Lee as, "The Union State Political Department...