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...Komsomol (Young Communist) at the age of 17, he rose to be a regimental commander in the Red army, but in the early '30s transferred to the Osoby Otdel (Special Department) of the NKVD. Sent to the Ukraine, he worked with Stalin's Ukrainian troubleshooter, Nikita Khrushchev. Together they supervised the deportation and liquidation of hundreds of thousands of peasants who resisted collectivization. After the conquest and partition of Poland, Serov was assigned to the job of eliminating "anti-Soviet elements" in the newly annexed territories. Infamous secret order No. 001223, outlining procedures to be adopted for executions...
...last October, Khokhlov was summoned to the headquarters of MVD's grim Ninth Otdel, the "terror and diversion" section now under the direct supervision of taciturn Alexander Panyushkin, onetime (1947-52) Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. He was told to proceed to Frankfurt, there to assassinate one Georgi Okolovich, a big shot in the right-wing Russian expatriate organization, NTS, whose Berlin director, Dr. Alexander Trushnovich, was brutally abducted from West Berlin by Communists a fortnight ago (TIME, April 26). Khokhlov said that he went home to talk the matter over with his wife, and both decided that...
Into the brick building on Furkasovsky Alley come reports on each country's military and industrial potential, on conditions in local Communist parties. Briefs are prepared for the Kremlin, where the facts are correlated with reports from other intelligence agencies, such as INO (Inostranny Otdel), the foreign espionage department of the NKVD, and Razvedupra, the reconnaissance division of the Red army. Thus fortified from Furkasovsky Alley, Messrs. Stalin, Molotov & Co. revise their foreign policies and issue new directives to Communist parties abroad...
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