Word: mvd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East Germany (see FOREIGN NEWS), the U.S. last week reminded the world that defection is a two-way street-with the heaviest traffic running freedom's way. At a specially summoned press conference, the State Department produced Yuri Rastvorov, 33, the six-footer who was a high-ranking MVD spy in Japan before he fled from the Soviet embassy* and asked U.S. authorities for protection last winter (TIME...
...commission had become interested in O'Sullivan after Vladimir Petrov, a Russian embassy secretary in Canberra, surrendered to Australian authorities and began to talk (TIME, April 26). Petrov, an ex-colonel in the MVD, the Russian secret police, charged that O'Sullivan had been helpful to the MVD in Australia. Last week O'Sullivan's answer took Australian newsmen by surprise...
...Western newsmen it was added proof of the fact that Tass correspondents are Red agents rather than legitimate reporters. In The Netherlands and Canada, Tass correspondents have actually been found spying (TIME, Jan. 5, 1953). All Tass correspondents, in every country of the world, Petrov testified, act as MVD agents...
...Tass representative was not a permanent MVD worker," he added, "he was invariably called in to do that work." Petrov explained that only the secret police chief in each country knows what actual rank each Tass correspondent holds. Petrov's description of Tassmen's MVD mission: to pass themselves off as working newspapermen while they gather information for the Russian secret police...
...without landing Australia in another inflationary cycle. Neither party gave much thought to Australia's foreign policy. Said the Sydney Morning Herald in disgust: "Indo-China might be as remote as Timbuktu." Yet Communism may have been the issue that kept Bob Menzies in power. The arrest of MVD Agent Vladimir Petrov and the rescue of his wife (TIME, April 26) gave the Liberals a readymade chance to revive their hoary cry: that Evatt and his party are on the same side as the Reds. To his audiences, Menzies quoted a Communist document instructing the comrades "to deliver...