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...says Salisbury, "probably the most extensive survey of this . . . region by an American since the 1880s." That part of Russia, said he, is "an empire-within-an-empire, the slave state of prison labor and forced-residence workers" that extends thousands of miles and is ruled by the MVD. "All life in those regions is incredibly harsh and grim." Salisbury saw hundreds of labor gangs of men and women going blankly about their jobs under the eyes of armed MVD agents. Almost all the buildings in the area are put up by slave-labor construction gangs, but the difference between...
...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...