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...After Nikita Khrushchev's 1962 decision to let One Day be published in order to further the Premier's destalinization policies, Solzhenitsyn's fortunes depended on Khrushchev's. A year after his fall, the secret police raided two Moscow apartments where Solzhenitsyn's archives, including copies of The First Circle, were hidden. "I was so depressed," he writes about learning of his exposure, "that I contemplated suicide, for the first and, I hope, the last time in my life." After that raid, Solzhenitsyn began microfilming all his work and arranging for its underground transmission abroad...
...operations after he joined the CIA remain secret. The only people who know what he really did are his superiors and those who worked with him. One exploit that can be told came early hi 1956. In collaboration with a friendly intelligence service, his unit acquired a copy of Nikita Khrushchev's famed denunciation of Stalin to the 20th Party Congress. Angleton and his lieutenants also developed the evidence that helped lead the FBI in 1957 to the KGB agent Colonel Rudolf Abel, who had operated since 1948 from an obscure photographer's shop in Brooklyn. The numbers...
...visit Moscow. Prime Minister Aleksei Kosygin did the honors. Whitlam was told that Brezhnev had a "heavy cold" and was "resting outside Moscow." This suggested that Brezhnev is actually incapacitated or that his Politburo colleagues mean him to appear so. "Reasons of health," was the official rationale for Nikita Khrushchev's forced resignation...
...resemblances to Jack and Bobby of Actors William Devane and Martin Sheen. A dramatization of events presented with the doggedness of a documentary, Missiles won some praise from Historian Schlesinger: "It was a simplification, not falsification, of events." But former Secretary of State Dean Rusk had objections. When Nikita Khrushchev, who was played by Howard da Silva, recalled the Soviet ships, Rusk said, "We didn't jump up and down like schoolboys whose team had scored a touchdown. The episode was a little naive." As for General Maxwell Taylor, he was disgusted with Actor Andrew Duggan, who took...
Died. Yekaterina A. Furtseva, 64, Soviet Minister of Culture; of a heart attack; in Moscow. Furtseva joined the youth branch of the Communist Party as a teen-age worker in a textile plant, then climbed through a series of party posts. Closely allied with Nikita Khrushchev, she became Minister of Culture in 1960 and the most powerful woman in the Soviet Union. As Culture Minister, "Baba Katya" (Grannie Kate) sponsored an upsurge of artistic exchange with the West, but shifted after Patron Khrushchev's ouster to a policy of harsh repression (notably against Alexander Solzhenitsyn...