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...steep set of stairs which branch off into two different rooms. Between these two rooms there is a small hallway where the ever present Jack Dorigan inspects the customers. Jack, who has never taken a drink, according to all reports, is the original member of the OGPU when it comes to seeking out people who have imbibed too freely. It takes a good man to get by Jack when the evidences indicate that liquor has a hold. Or to put it bluntly, when you have a snootful, don't try to get into the Stag Club...
Last week a sensational book called Out of the Night was sweeping the U. S. (TIME, Jan. 20). In one month it had sold 350,000 copies. It told how OGPU agents murdered on order-and saw to it that the murders looked like accidents. It told how they kidnapped their enemies-and the kidnappings looked like unsolved disappearances. The work of a German ex-Communist who wrote under the name of Jan Valtin, it painted a savage picture of the depravity of the Comintern, OGPU agents, the world's Communist parties...
...many readers the book came to life-and to death. Found dead in a hotel room in Washington was Walter Krivitsky, 41, onetime chief of Soviet military intelligence in Western Europe, who broke with Stalin in 1937, fled to the U. S., wrote a series of articles exposing the OGPU in the Saturday Evening Post, testified before the Dies Committee. Krivitsky was partly dressed, had a revolver in his hand. His death was listed as a suicide...
...piece. He had no face and no identity. He called himself Jan Valtin. He claimed that he was: 1) an ex-German Communist; 2) an ex-international organizer of seamen and harbor workers; 3) an ex-agent of the Communist International; 4) an ex-co-worker of the OGPU; 5) an escaped prisoner of the Gestapo; 6) an escaped prisoner of the OGPU; 7) a man wanted dead or alive by both. What he had to tell seemed pretty well to substantiate his claims...
...West European underground section. There is sly, foxy Heinz Neumann, who plotted the 1927 uprising in Canton, China. Once Stalin's darling, he was shot in Stalin's Purge. There is George Mink, ex-Philadelphia taxi driver, Communist organizer of New York's water front, OGPU gunman now wanted by the U. S. Government. Valtin describes his uneasiness as he watched these men intriguing against, spying on, double-crossing and betraying each other...