Word: ovakimian
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...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...