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...practical matter, four-power control in Berlin ended in June 1948, when Soviet General Alexander Kotikov walked out of the ruling Kommandatura early in the 13-month Berlin blockade. In a gleaming Berlin conference room, a seat is carefully saved for the Russians, but the U.S., British and French commandants have for years conducted their business on a tripartite basis. Fact is, the West can maintain its dealings with the Russians about as easily through General Yakubovsky, whose headquarters is in nearby Wiins-dorf, as it can with a Russian "Berlin commandant." The contacts have not been very intimate...
...Jordan added that Hopkins "gave me instructions over the long distance telephone to expedite certain freight shipments ... I was to ... say nothing about them, even to my superior officers." Three shipments came through, of 500, 1,150 and 1,200 Ibs. Said Jordan: "All I know is that Colonel Kotikov had it listed as uranium...
After the broadcast, Fulton Lewis whisked his prize off to his farm near Hollywood, Md., proudly stood by as Jordan elaborated his story for other reporters. "It is now apparent that Harry Hopkins gave Russia the A-bomb on a platter," said Jordan. Kotikov would call the Russian embassy, he said, and the embassy would "plug in Harry Hopkins at the White House-they had a direct wire . . . Hopkins and I got to know each other very well over the phone...
...highest official level was sliced away when Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky walked out last March 20 (TIME, March 29). Until this week, however, they still met in the lower-echelon Kommandatura, charged with the day-to-day business of running the capital. Here, each fortnight, white-haired Soviet General Alexander Kotikov rose to read an hour-long prepared indictment of the Western powers, then comfortably settled his 215 pounds in his chair and looked blank and bland while U.S. Representative Colonel Frank Howley crisply replied. Then Kotikov would read another rehearsed document on a totally different subject...
...people in Berlin's trade unions, nor the U.S., British and French representatives in the four-power Berlin Kommandatura -should decide the make-up of the union congress executive committee. When the Western Allies opposed an obviously rigged election plan, Soviet Major General Alexander Kotikov (an entomologist in civil-life) attacked them, in the Soviet licensed German-language press...