Word: nkvd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...garden of a large house that had been occupied by the NKVD, the investigators found 113 bodies in ten graves. At the bottom of each grave were two corpses with bullet holes in the tops of their skulls; the other victims had been shot in the skull from behind. Said Grantskalns: "The only explanation we could make was that . . . two were chosen to dig the pit and then shot when they had finished, [and the rest] were shot at the edge...
Lieut. Colonel John H. Reynolds, of the U.S. Army, a former contact of Gaik Ovakimian, former head of the Soviet Secret Intelligence (NKVD) in New York, is also apparently involved in the Soviet espionage activities stemming from Washington...
Gromov had previously been under suspicion as the successor to Vassili Zubilin, reported head of the NKVD in North America, who returned to Moscow in the late summer...
Chased by NKVD. Despite the screaming, however, the onetime Soviet intelligence clerk still insisted he wanted to talk to U.S. investigators, not to offer new information or name new names, but to give them "advice . . . which can be discussed only in secret." Said Gouzenko: "There is no reason or excuse not to let them come here...
...compelling reason why he may not follow either course: the Canadian government, which supplies a full-time police guard for the Gouzenkos and their two children, has strongly hinted that the guard will be withdrawn if Gouzenko chooses to abandon his own security arrangements. Gouzenko, who was chased by NKVD agents in Ottawa after his break for freedom in 1945, still fears that the Reds would kill him to set an example for other doubters and "to prove that they have a long...