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Lieut. Colonel John H. Reynolds, of the U.S. Army, a former contact of Gaik Ovakimian, former head of the Soviet Secret Intelligence (NKVD) in New York, is also apparently involved in the Soviet espionage activities stemming from Washington...
Professor Abraham Glasser, 38, of the Rutgers Law School, was called because FBI reports alleged that as a special attorney in the Department of Justice in 1938, he gave information to three OGPU agents known as "X," "Nikolai Stern" and "Ovakimian." Another Justice Department report cleared him of being a Communist agent, but recommended that he be dismissed for "careless and improper" disclosure of official information. When the committee asked whether he could identify photographs of "X" or "Stern," Glasser refused to answer. About the only thing he would say: he is not now an "actual, official, card-carrying, organizationally...
...Bail was not refused in the mysterious case of Gaik Badalovitch Ovakimian, Russian agent picked up by the FBI. This stocky, greying, powerful man has been in the U.S. since 1936. Last month, for the first time, he registered with the State Department as the agent of a foreign power. He had sent his wife, child, furniture and car back to Russia, was himself due to leave this month...
...great hush-hush attended the proceedings where Ovakimian was held for $25,-ooo bail. When the U.S. attorney said that Ovakimian was a key figure in the Government's spy investigations, an FBI man shushed him in alarm. Ovakimian growled at the Soviet consul general, who treated him with vast respect (and posted a $25,000 bond with $50 and $100 bills), identified himself first as a buyer for Amtorg Trading Corp., next as representative of the "chemical trust," last as an agent of "the Commissariat." Around the Amtorg office he was always a feared and mysterious figure...