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...last consulates were closed in 1948 when a Soviet consul general kidnaped Oksana Stepanovna Kasenkina after her escape from Russia's New York consulate, where she was a schoolteacher. She later escaped again by leaping from the consulate's third floor, became a U.S. citizen before her death...
...Died. Oksana Stepanovna Kasenkina, 63, Russian schoolteacher in the Soviet consulate in Manhattan, who defected in 1948 by jumping from a third-floor window, became a U.S. citizen in 1957 and wrote Leap to Freedom, the story of her life under Russian repression and of the disappearance of her husband in the 1937 purges; of heart disease; in Miami, where she had lived incognita the past year in a hotel for the elderly. Her leap followed a previous escape to the New York farm of the anti-Communist Tolstoy Foundation, from which she was kidnaped by the then Soviet consul...
...Chinese Communist Ilyushin-14 airliner swept off a Rangoon runway last week and wheeled toward Russia with a drugged, closely guarded wreck of a man as cargo. The man aboard: Soviet Colonel Mikhail I. Stryguine. whose bizarre experience resembled Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina's "jump to freedom" from the Russian consulate in Manhattan almost eleven years ago-except that Colonel Stryguine did not make...
...Lomakin, 53, last identified as councilor of the Soviet embassy in Peking, onetime (1946-48) U.S.S.R. consul general in New York; after long illness; place not revealed. Jacob Lomakin was kicked out of the U.S. in 1948 for his role as the heavy in the case of Mrs. Oksana S. Kasenkina, the Russian schoolteacher who jumped from the consulate window in Manhattan (after Lomakin had confined her there to await involuntary return to the Soviet Union) and was picked up, seriously injured, to recover, become a U.S. citizen...
Nine years after she jumped from the third floor of the Russian consulate in Manhattan to escape being shanghaied back to Russia, 61-year-old former Schoolteacher Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina, still ailing, became a U.S. citizen at a heavily guarded ceremony in Boston...