Word: magidoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith denied that Magidoff had ever used the diplomatic mail. McGraw-Hill said that the queries were round-robin copies sent to several of the World News bureaus. Magidoff had not answered the query about underground plants. Nevertheless, Russia's Foreign Office ordered Magidoff out of the country...
...capitalists," she concluded darkly, "are hatching a new war and Magidoff's collection of intelligence data about the U.S.S.R.undoubtedly was part of the dirty work American capitalists are doing...
Like his secretary, Magidoff had switched allegiance. Born in Kiev, he was graduated from the University of Wisconisin, became a U.S. citizen and returned to Russia 13 years...
...last week, Secretary Kohonen did not show up for work. A glance at Izvestia told Magidoff why. In a long letter to the editors, she roundly denounced him as a U.S. spy. In his files, she wrote, she had found queries from McGraw-Hill, asking for information on underground factories, atomic developments and air transport. She said that the replies had gone by diplomatic pouch, to avoid the censors...
While the real reason for his expulsion remained a mystery, other newsmen guessed that Magidoff might have been a stalking-horse in the Soviet campaign to clean up "impurity" in the arts. He had many friends among Russian writers and artists. Thus, branding him a spy would, later, make it easy to purge any writers he had known...