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...Commissar. Molotov is married, has two teen-age daughters (one adopted). When he takes the girls picnicking, Ogpu guards form a discreet ring around them...
...rehabilitation of the regained soil; ordered the return of 571,500 head of evacuated cattle, horses, sheep. The committee's head is plump Georgi Malenkov, one of Stalin's ablest trouble shooters. Among the members is the professorial-looking Georgian, Lavrenti Beria, chief of NKVD (formerly OGPU...
...Valtin, 1941's best-selling tattletale (Out of the Night), German-born ex-agent for both the Ogpu and Gestapo, undesirable-alien parolee, passed his draft physical and was ordered to arms...
...again was in-again-out-again Jan Valtin, 1941's best-selling tell-all (Out of the Night). The German-born ex-agent for both the Gestapo and Ogpu (TIME, Oct. 6, 1941, et seq.), onetime California jailbird who was pardoned just before Pearl Harbor, then jugged on Ellis Island six months ago as an undesirable alien, was freed on parole, faded back into the night...
...author of the best-selling Out of the Night, which he wrote under the name of Jan Valtin, hulking, gap-toothed Richard Krebs had shocked U.S. readers with his offhand account of a lurid, turbulent life as an agent of both the Ogpu and Gestapo. He later admitted he had added the experiences of other men "to make the book as effective as possible," was roundly denounced by Communists as a faker. But his fame was his undoing: he admitted that he had once before been deported by the U.S., that he had committed perjury -both grounds for deportation...