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...More than a dozen NKVD men suddenly rushed into the room and forcibly dragged me from my bed and out of the ward . . . My slow movement down the stairs on my crutches irritated them, and they gave me a push so that I fell down. This was repeated on each flight of stairs...
...pair dodged surreptitiously all over Manhattan? Judy explained that Gubichev was afraid that his wife had hired detectives to follow them. He had also "petrified" her by muttering that the NKVD might be after him. Judy had thought the whole business was very silly -particularly sitting on different seats in an all-but-empty subway car. She had never dreamed that the car behind was stacked with FBI agents...
...heart of Moscow, on Furkasovsky Alley, stands a new yellow brick, nine-story building, resplendent with black marble pilasters. Sentries are posted at the doors. Up and down, the Alley plainclothesmen saunter with studied unconcern. This is the home of the all-powerful EKU (Ekonomicheskoe Upravlenie), economic division of NKVD...
...building on Furkasovsky Alley come reports on each country's military and industrial potential, on conditions in local Communist parties. Briefs are prepared for the Kremlin, where the facts are correlated with reports from other intelligence agencies, such as INO (Inostranny Otdel), the foreign espionage department of the NKVD, and Razvedupra, the reconnaissance division of the Red army. Thus fortified from Furkasovsky Alley, Messrs. Stalin, Molotov & Co. revise their foreign policies and issue new directives to Communist parties abroad...
Gliksman was one of those Socialists who had thought that the Stalin regime would welcome non-Communist radicals. When he was arrested he tried to convince the NKVD it was making a mistake. The mistake, as others have discovered before & since...