Word: makinen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York had snared Ivan D. Egorov, 41, a member of the United Nations Secretariat, and his wife Aleksandra. They too were charged with espionage but were later swapped for the return of two Americans held by the Soviets - Jesuit Priest Walter Ciszek and Marvin W. Makinen, a Fulbright scholar from Asburnham, Mass. Was there another swap in the wind...
...Pilot Gary Powers in 1962. In last week's exchange the U.S. released Ivan Egorov, a Soviet U.N. functionary, and his wife Alexandra, who were arrested last July in New York for espionage. In return, the Soviets let go 24-year-old Fulbright Scholar Marvin Makinen, who was sentenced to eight years in prison in 1961 on photo-taking espionage charges; and Jesuit Priest Walter Ciszek, 58, who had been arrested in Poland...
When summer vacation came, Makinen set out in a rented green sunroof Volkswagen for a trip through East Germany and Poland to Moscow. Nothing more was heard from Student Makinen until last week, when Moscow announced that he had been arrested...
Plain Vigilance. According to the Russians, Makinen had been approached in Berlin by two mysterious sponsors whom he knew only as "Jim" and "Dwyer," and provided with Intourist food and lodging vouchers, camera, film and dagger-everything but the traditional cloak. They told him what places to visit and what military installations he should photograph. The Russian press boasted that his downfall had been due to the vigilance of "plain Soviet workers" who had become suspicious of Makinen's choice of such unsightly picture subjects as airfields, army trucks and soldiers...
Crisis Victim. The military tribunal at Kiev sentenced Marvin Makinen to eight years' detention-just two years less than the punishment dished out to Francis Gary Powers for flying his U-2 thousands of miles into Soviet hinterland. In all probability, Makinen was a victim of the Berlin crisis. He came from West Berlin, just at the moment the Russians were charging that it was a center for imperialist plotters. Crowed Izvestia: "It becomes still clearer that the government of East Germany acted just in time in closing loopholes for all kinds of filth which tried to penetrate...