Word: mvd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly after Mankiewicz met Cicero, I turned up strong circumstantial evidence that Bazna, last July, was attempting to extract money from Soviet agents-including the chief of the MVD in Turkey. I informed the Turkish Sūretė, which trailed Bazna, arrested him and held him for . . . interrogations . . . He was released for want of documentary proof of his current espionage activities...
Madame Murashkina proved to be a grandmother and an engineer, a pale, thin woman of 47 with drawn-back grey hair, austerely dressed in a rough tweed suit, shapeless black hat, flat-heeled shoes and rayon stockings. With her was a smart blond translator, a huge Russian MVD guard, and two solemn Tass reporters. Everybody was at the station to meet her except Mrs. Weston. The mayor said his wife had a cold, but gossips called it a diplomatic illness. Next day, to give gossips the lie, Mayoress Weston put on her hat, went to see Murashkina at her flat...
...turned out twin-engine (IL-12) and four-engine (IL-18) transports that look something like U.S. Convairs and Boeing Stratocruisers. Now working on a fast, twin-jet light bomber (IL-26) to replace the old Stormovik. Curt, uneducated, vain, he boasts that all the digging by the MVD has never turned up a disloyal...
...halfhearted attempt to erase the Bolshevik Revolution) for an instance of "imperialist aggression" against Russia. To justify the Communist regime, Pravda also reaches back, almost sentimentally, to "Czarist exploiters and landowners" (all of whom are long dead or out of Russia). Pravda repeats the old line that: 1) MVD labor camps and censorships exist only for "enemies of the people . . . terrorists and assassins"; 2) Russians have freely chosen the Communist party to rule their land, etc. Concludes Pravda, in an odd brand of non-Marxist piety: "Such has been the will of the people-and the voice of the people...
...night last week, the girl and the three men began to act strangely for simple aviation enthusiasts. Around 2 a.m., they crept quietly along the barbed-wire fence of the sleepy airport, sneaked on to the field without alarming the Communist state-security police, the MVD-trained Bezpieka. They got to the plane, turned over the engine and crowded into the cabin...