Word: nts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grim Ninth Otdel, the "terror and diversion" section now under the direct supervision of taciturn Alexander Panyushkin, onetime (1947-52) Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. He was told to proceed to Frankfurt, there to assassinate one Georgi Okolovich, a big shot in the right-wing Russian expatriate organization, NTS, whose Berlin director, Dr. Alexander Trushnovich, was brutally abducted from West Berlin by Communists a fortnight ago (TIME, April 26). Khokhlov said that he went home to talk the matter over with his wife, and both decided that a second refusal of an assignment would mean certain death for Khokhlov...
...became simply one of following orders-up to the crucial point. With two East German Communists who were to serve as his assistants, Khokhlov went to work. The Germans went through refresher courses in judo, marksmanship and automobile driving. Khokhlov pored over maps of Frankfurt, studied brochures on the NTS and conferred with his boss Panyushkin over weapons and methods...
...Plotter. From a dingy room in the British sector reeking with the smell of cooking, 60-year-old Dr. Trushnovich ran the NTS in Germany, an organization of White Russians and their sympathizers. Like NTS, Dr. Trushnovich was neofascist. But his NTS members hate Russia's Red rulers with cold ferocity, devote every waking hour to plotting the overthrow of the Soviet regime. Born near Trieste, Trushnovich fought with the White Russians against the Red army, helped the Nazis against Russia in World War II, and after the war founded a relief camp for Russian escapees. Trushnovich...
When Heinz Glaeske sought out the NTS, Dr. Trushnovich welcomed his help. Released by the Russians in 1949, Glaeske had founded an organization for former Soviet prisoners who would give NTS valuable information. What Dr. Trushnovich did not know was that Glaeske was a double agent: a member of SED, the East German Communist Party, he had already betrayed three Western agents...
...Notebook. Next day the German Communist radio blandly announced that Trushnovich, "a leading personality of the fascist White Guard organization, NTS, which works on orders from the American secret service" had come to East Berlin and turned himself over to Communist authorities, bringing with him "documents" proving his espionage activities (NTS said he brought no papers, but unfortunately was carrying a notebook listing names and addresses of NTS contacts...