Word: ogpu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Valtin, ex-OGPU agent who told all in his best-selling Out of the Night (1941), was jugged (and then released) as an undesirable alien (1942), served with the armed forces in the Pacific, and finally became a U.S. citizen last January, was still roller-coastering. In New Haven, Conn., the U.S. Attorney went to court to appeal the order giving him citizenship...
Teheran, the movie-in-progress, is a spy-soaked thriller, with clips from actual newsreels, built around the OGPU-reported Nazi plot to assassinate Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Teheran meeting of the Big Three. British Producer John Stafford, backed by British-Italian capital and using a mixed British-Italiah-American cast, had set up shop in Rome's Scalera Studios because of a shortage of studio space and studio personnel in England...
Molotov never appeared without his flying wedge of guards and his interpreter.* Some of them were inoffensive consultants in his delegation, but they all spelled Ogpu to the onlookers. The contrast with Stettinius and Eden, striding carelessly through the lobbies, was too much for Americans, who often forget that three of their Presidents have been assassinated...
...invaded 25 years later by Marshal Ivan Konev-just as this time a Provisional Government of Poland, headed by Felix Dzerzhinsky, followed hard on the heels of the Red Army. Like Bierut, Dzerzhinsky was a Pole. Like Bierut, he was in the Russian secret police (later he organized the Ogpu). Russia's second bid for western power failed when French General Maxime Weygand (now a German prisoner) reorganized Polish resistance. The third try-the present Red Army's-succeeded. Last week Stalin, who had learned his history lessons the hard way, converted the Russian military failure...
Born. To Pfc. Richard Julius Herman Krebs ("Jan Valtin"), 39, ham-handed expose writer (Out of the Night), onetime Gestapo and Ogpu agent; and his second wife, Abigail Harris Krebs, 21: their second child, second son; in Danbury, Conn. Name: Eric Alan. Weight...