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...search of the sweetest possible name for its secret police, the Kremlin has given that dread body its fourth title since December 1917. Once the CHEKA (Extraordinary Commission), then GPU (State Political Management), 1922-34, then NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs), 1934-46, it is now MGB (Ministry of State Security). Said the proverb-loving Russians on hearing the news: Khren ne slashche redki ("Horseradish is not sweeter than radish...
Flaunted Funerals. Ever since A.M.G. took over Trieste, Tito's PNOO (Regional Liberation Committee), backed by a local secret-police force on NKVD lines, has been in underground opposition to it. The battle reached its height in early July when the editor of Glas Savozaikov, the Slovene paper, was fined 200,000 lire for publishing false rumors about A.M.G. "calculated to excite and alarm the people...
...Army and Naval Intelligence services, and the NKVD secret police each had its system. The fourth was a political ring under Peter G. Goussarov, who rated as a second secretary in the Embassy; the evidence showed that he had "authority . . . on the level of an ambassador." The fifth and most active unit was the Military Intelligence network bossed by Colonel Nicolai Zabotin (TIME, March 11). Canada's Communist (Labor Progressive) party furnished the rings with recruits. Their pay was small, usually only $30 to $100 for a piece of information...
...military intelligence. And in Ottawa there was Nikolai Zheivinov, who lasted until last September- shortly after Embassy Lode Clerk Igor Gouzenko tattled to the police about the spy ring. Then Zheivinov quietly returned to Russia. Canadian officials found he was hip-deep in espionage, and a member of the NKVD...
Down the Drain. There were further experiences of this kind, more run-ins with the "power-drunk sadists" of the NKVD. One day Gershgorn "sprang up in sudden fury and rushed at me, screaming 'Saboteur, wrecker, rascal! Take this-and this!' His huge fists were crashing into my face like a couple of pistons." At last Kravchenko decided that he had had all he could stand. When no one was watching, he ripped a portrait of Stalin from the wall, tore it into shreds, flushed it down a toilet. "I listened to the gurgling of the water...