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...boxes are the work of China's Beria, Lo Jui-ching, boss of the Peking equivalent of the MVD. Assisting Lo in the work is a resident corps of well-paid Russian "specialists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Love, Love, Love | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 31, 1952 | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Friendship's Hand | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: RUSSIA'S TOP AIRCRAFT DESIGNERS | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Three Men & a Girl | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

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