Word: plainclothesmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even more startling is the picture that emerges of the Soviet police as either numskulls or brutes. Two unlovely types are the Cheka plainclothesmen: Boiko, with his dimples and "effeminate, rosy cheeks," and Khizhnak, who has a knife scar running from ear to chin and has been known, during an "interrogation." to gouge out the eye of a suspect. Both are murdered by White officers who prove gentlemanly enough to spare the Cossack driver: "Several shots had been sent after him, but evidently more in order to frighten him than to hit him, for he said they whistled high above...
Most of the 125 uniformed policemen and 30 plainclothesmen on the scene rushed to save the Nazis from the screaming, egg-throwing crowd. After a short struggle, three of the four men were ushered into a side door of the Saxon and taken to safety out another exit. The fourth Nazi, a tall, blond man, had been hustled into a police wagon at the start of the molee...
...safe distance, billy-twirling cops patrolled the approaches to the U.N., the streets and buildings where the guests made their headquarters, the avenues they traveled. Busloads of reserve police stationed themselves at strategic points and waited for alarms. Mounted cops assembled to ward off any mob attacks. Scores of plainclothesmen from the Red countries as well as the U.S. stalked in doorways, on rooftops, bridges and overpasses, while fleets of escorting motorcycles and patrol cars shot up and down the streets with sirens wailing...
...Soviet U.N. mission headquarters itself, 200 New York cops formed a ring around the block, barricaded the corners. In the street, police cars and motor bikes purred; cars loaded with weapons stood by, and the mounted police clip-clopped steadily about, while untold numbers of plainclothesmen mingled in the restive crowds on the perimeter. On Khrushchev's first night in town, knots of Hungarian and Polish refugees gathered with banners that screamed KHRUSHCHEV IS A MURDERER, KHRUSHCHEV, GO HOME, and handed out pamphlets with such arresting titles as Nikita, Scat, You Dirty Aggressor, You Bloodstained Butcher, You Bestial Executioner...
Most of the diplomatic corps, including U.S. Ambassador H. Freeman Matthews, boycotted the airport reception; only 500 people turned up to watch Khrushchev bounce down the ramp all smiles. The scattered crowds on the streets to town barely outnumbered the 8,000 cops and nearly 1,000 plainclothesmen assigned to protect Khrushchev from Vienna's big refugee population. Since the Soviet press had already promised a "huge and joyous" reception, Soviet cameramen did what they could; they rounded up a loyal band of local Communists, herded them from stopping place to stopping place, scrambling about to shoot the same...