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...Lavrenti Beria - "scholarly-looking, soft-spoken . . . who looks like a physician but whose innocent-sounding title. Commissar for Internal Affairs, means that he is the head of the NKVD [ex-Ogpu...
...secondary aluminum, forbade it to touch any aluminum for three months. Requisitioning seized 78,000 lb. of copper sheet from a bathroom-supply dealer named Katz, who had refused to sell it to Metals Reserve. Washington was getting too small for Requisitioning's expanding Ogpu; its boss, Ernie Tupper, went to Manhattan, looked at space in the Empire State Building...
...found the hotel swarming with "spies of every Intelligence Service in the world; the diplomats and military attaches of great and little powers; British and French oil men on their way out, and German and Italian oil men on their way in; Gestapo agents and Ovra agents and OGPU agents, or men who were at least said to be agents; amiable Gauleiters and hardheaded economic experts; distinguished Rumanian appeasers and mink-clad German and Austrian beauties who were paid to keep them happy. ... As the drama of bloodless German conquest later on drew to its bitter end, the old order...
...Hess, "the only really great adventurer of the Nazi Party." It grew out of Nicolai's conversations with Ludendorff on the nature of total action; out of Goebbels' and Himmler's intelligent respect for the methods of Lenin (the Gestapo was "a complete plagiarism of the OGPU"); and out of Hess's studies under Geopolitician Professor Karl Haushofer. Haushofer assigned his star pupil the study of Japan-a study which Hess promptly narrowed to "Japan and Espionage," and on which he wrote a 40,000-word thesis which may be regarded as the Magna Charta...
...Battle of Russia had become in tensely personal to Joseph Stalin. His own life, which he had so zealously guarded with such alphabetical horrors as OGPU and NKVD, was endangered now by a horror called TNT. His own three rooms in the Kremlin were threatened: on seven occasions within a week bombs had fallen inside the old fort...