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...morning of Oct. 21 the doorbell rang. One of the most obnoxious of our guards stood at the door. "You are ordered to appear at the MVD Directorate...
Though Soviet officials are aware of the booming second economy, they generally ignore the dealings of Ivan the Terrible Capitalist. Major violators are sometimes arrested, and officers of the MVD'S Administration for Combatting the Embezzlement of Socialist Property and Speculation have infiltrated the black markets. But the Kremlin grudgingly accepts the underground economy because it fills the gaps left in the inefficient Soviet system, eases shortages and makes consumers' lives bearable. Collective-farm managers admit that often the only way to meet their production targets is to buy supplies on the black market. "If they tried...
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...