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...revelation" that Stalin was a spy for the czarist secret police, Okhrana, appears in article by Alexander Orlov, one of the Soviet Union's highest ranking NKVD officers in the 1930's. Orlov offers his story as an explanation for the recent about face of Russian leaders in denouncing Stalin...
Present Russian bosses, Orlov says, have probably discovered only recently "Stalin's guiltiest secret of all." Orlov claims to have learned of the spying activities from a cousin who was a Soviet army commander. He did not reveal it until now, when anti-Stalin sentiment is rising in Russia, for fear of Soviet revenge upon himself and his family in Russia, Orlov explained...
Pravda attacked a number of local party officials and Scientists Avalov, Orlov, Nesterov and Shchedrin for "slanderous statements directed against the party's policy and its Leninist foundations." Singled out for his "provocative, antiparty" attitude was Economist L. D. Yaroshenko, whom Stalin himself denounced for "Bukharinism...
...printed map, accompanying each invitation, showed the way to the picnic ground, a 280-acre government estate some 60 miles from Moscow, once the property of Count Orlov, a favorite of Catherine the Great. Here, behind a high board fence topped with barbed wire and guarded by soldiers, the Soviet leadership was in line to welcome the guests...
...Orlov was ordered out of the country. At week's end, the Stockholm court had not yet decided what to do about Andersson. But the "most serious case of espionage ever uncovered in Sweden" had spurred others to activity, in the only large nation in Europe which officially refuses to choose between East & West. Sweden's legislators were hastily shoving through a new law to make wire tapping easier. "The only thing that puzzles me," said a Stockholm cab driver, "is how could a simple navy N.C.O. get access to so many top secrets. Also, why were...