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...Wisconsin Senator listed Coe as a prime example of subversives in public office. A New Deal economist who had become the $20,000 secretary of the International Monetary Fund, Coe had been identified before congressional investigators as a Red agent. The State Department had even refused him a passport. But not until McCarthy spoke did the Truman Administration demand Coe's dismissal from his sensitive post. And not until Coe himself refused to say whether he was a Communist spy, in testimony before the McCarran committee, did the IMF finally force him to resign (TIME...
...most celebrated political prisoners got unexpected visitors. Two U.S. Embassy officials called on Associated Press Correspondent William Oatis, 39, who had been in prison two years on a spying charge. They left two oddly matched articles-a pair of Argyle socks knitted by his wife, and his passport. The Embassy was acting on the suspicion that Oatis might need both for traveling. Fourteen hours later he did. Oatis was taken before a Czech Communist official and told that he had been freed. He was no more astounded than everyone else. The U.S. had apparently been making little progress in negotiations...
...first issue of Pravda came out in 1912. Molotov was soon arrested and exiled to Siberia. When the Revolution came in 1917, he was a hunted escapee, hiding in Petrograd with a faked passport. He cheered on the revolutionary masses when the Czarist government collapsed, organized the Petrograd Soviet...
...there was to be no escape. Police curtly took up his passport, sent the girl home, and escorted Duarte back to his luxurious apartment. He called in some pals, and until after midnight, sounds of laughing and drinking came from the rooms. Apparently, after the guests left, Juan Duarte concluded that it was time to check out. His valet found him in the morning with a bullet in his chest...
Less than 200 miles of water separates Port Sudan from the Saudi Arabian port of Jidda, which is a 50-mile walk from Mecca. But before the pilgrim may have his passport stamped to cross the Red Sea, he must get through a slough of red tape: pay the British authorities pilgrim fees (later remitted to Saudi Arabia); submit to medical examination; have his arm stabbed with sharp needles against epidemic diseases; pay for his return passage...