Word: mvd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lovable Diplomat. Australia's swift expulsion of Skripov is understandable. In 1954, MVD Colonel Vladimir Petrov, who also had been posing as a lovable diplomat, defected to the West with an armful of secret documents that described widespread Soviet snooping operations Down Under. Caught Redhanded, the Russians broke off diplomatic relations, did not reopen their Canberra embassy for five years...
...MVD recruit easily passed his first test: he asked his sister to put him in contact with a local underground group, then turned in its leaders. Soon afterward, Stashinsky was enrolled in a spy school at Kiev. Assigned to East Berlin, Stashinsky was bored with his tasks; he passed information to and from other Soviet couriers, and once he was ordered to copy down the license plate numbers of Allied military vehicles. One of Stashinsky's few excitements was a girl he met in an East Berlin dance hall, Inge Pohl, with whom he fell in love. Inge...
...Moscow, the Warsaw chiller was branded "false and fantastic." However the story really ended, the Politburo is apparently trying hard to prevent the rise of another Beria. It abolished the MVD, freed many of its prisoners, and handed over police functions to a Committee on State Security (KGB), which is supposed to be accountable to the party as a whole. In keeping with its friendly new face, the Kremlin last week appointed as its new KGB boss a model of the rising young Soviet-style executive. The new top cop: Vladimir Semichastny, 37, who has been the leader...
...doctrinally denying working people the benefits socialism has always held out for them. In addition. Labor's brilliant but erratic leader, Herbert V. Evatt-onetime (1948) president of the U.N. General Assembly-also got himself mixed up in seeming sympathy with the Reds, during the defection of MVD Agent Vladimir Petrov from the Soviet embassy in Canberra (TIME, Sept. 27, 1954)-When Evatt insisted that only the "vilest liars'" could link him with Communists, a Menzies aide retorted: "Those who fly with the crows must expect to be shot...