Word: pravda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family feud that threatens to split the world Communist movement. Last week the rift was there for all to see, laid out in plain words in Mao Tse-tung's Red Flag and People's Daily, followed by a paragraph-by-paragraph retort in Khrushchev's Pravda...
Though highly critical of several aspects of Russian life, particularly Stalinism, anti-Semitism, and bureaucratic control, the poet is a loyal Communist and has the sanction of the Soviet government. He has recently published in Pravda despite much violent criticism aimed at some of his writing from various Soviet quarters...
...Russians have named seven Americans, one Briton and two Russians as major figures in the espionage ring, which was accused of "wholesale and retail'' trade in Russian engineering and scientific secrets. Top operative, according to Pravda, was the U.S. embassy's Russian-speaking physician. Air Force Captain Alexis Davison, 31, who was "openheartedly received as a true colleague'' by Soviet doctors. It was Davison, said the Russians, who was so preoccupied by the lamppost. The charcoal circle was a signal that information was ready to be picked up at 5-6 Pushkin Street by another...
Codes & Cameras. Their Russian contact, the real heavy of Pravda's story, was Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky, a vain cheapskate who held an "important job" in the Soviet agency that coordinates scientific research. The secret life of Oleg, the serial explained, revolved around his hopes of escaping to the West, "the alluring world where there is no honor, no fatherland, no moral duty; where everything is measured by the pocketbook...
Alas, poor Oleg! When Soviet intelligence raided his apartment, said Pravda, they found three miniature cameras for photographing documents, code books, chemically treated paper for sending invisible messages, radios to receive instructions from spy headquarters in Frankfurt and transmit "information about the U.S.S.R.'s scientific, technical, war and political problems." Why, with such equipment, Oleg resorted to such clumsy devices as scrawling signs on lampposts and hiding information behind apartment-house radiators. Pravda's thriller writer does not explain. It would never happen in a James Bond story...