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After a spell in a top Soviet prep school, he went on to two other educational experiences-a brief exile in Kazakhstan (for no reason except that all Germans had to go) and an unhappy love affair (his girl was recruited into the NKVD...
...NKVD-trained Hayhanen finally got fed up with the job. According to his story, Moscow ordered Abel and Hayhanen to give $5,000 to the wife of convicted Atom Spy Morton Sobell, serving a 30-year term in Alcatraz. Finding Helen Sobell's Manhattan apartment well guarded by police, they buried the money 45 miles away in a state park. Hayhanen later reported to Moscow that he had actually delivered the money to Mrs. Sobell. Moscow sent another $5,000 for Mrs. Sobell, and suggested that she be recruited for spying. Abel banked this $5,000. Hayhanen then...
...from the village of Kalinovka in the region of Kursk because, at that step of the leadership crisis, Khrushchev had the advantage of a fairly new face, and being a man without ideological subtlety, he would have to yield to advice given by the great institutions: the army, the NKVD, the reconstituted party...
...deal with troublesome peasants and bourgeois nationalists. Nikita, dressed in a Ukrainian shirt and cloth cap, deported scores of thousands of peasants to Siberia, dismissed hundreds of Ukrainian party members. It was while on one of these assignments that he struck up an acquaintanceship with Colonel Ivan Serov, NKVD expert in genocide...
...Later recreated as a ministry, the MVD, though the old name stuck. * Security Boss Ignatiev, who may know a great deal about Stalin's death two months later, is still alive, a full member of the Central Committee and the only living ex-NKVD boss. * Khrushchev's answer, delivered last week in Czechoslovakia: "On a hungry stomach, Marxist-Leninism may be very difficult to un derstand. It is not wrong to throw in a piece of bacon and a piece of butter in the course of improving the theory of Marx...