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...trial, which was front-page news in Pravda, was staged as part of a new Soviet campaign to make life harder for Western spies and duller for Communist partygoers. Since last month's trial and execution of Oleg Penkovsky, the scientific official who was convicted of slipping secret information to British and U.S. agents, the Soviet press has been urging comrades to "break the criminal chain of espionage" by showing "revolutionary vigilance and being ideologically well-steeled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Meet Comrade Punkovsky | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

Russians were particularly warned against Moscow's diplomatic cocktail circuit, where, said Pravda darkly, Western spymasters recruit new talent. Warned Pravda: "That was how they got hold of Penkovsky, and the same thing may happen to anyone who, in his blindness, nibbles at the bait the imperialists so lavishly toss out." Izvestia chimed in with an acid-etched portrait of the kind of comrade the imperialists are looking for. Dubbing him "Punkovsky"-for punk-Izvestia reported that this unsavory type cherishes a never-ending stream of gold-embossed invitations to diplomatic receptions, where he can be spotted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Meet Comrade Punkovsky | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

...honest Soviet people" might boycott them altogether. To show that its diatribes were not just cocktail talk, the government last week stripped Artillery Chief Marshal Sergei Varenstov of his rank for having befriended Penkovsky, disciplined some of "the scientist's other friends and boozing companions." "Of course," added Pravda, "we are against spy mania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Meet Comrade Punkovsky | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

...Moscow shindigs in recent weeks, greying, square-jawed Frol Kozlov, 54, has been conspicuously absent. Could Kozlov, No. 2 man in the party and Nikita Khrushchev's heir-designate, be in trouble? Some Kremlinologists thought so. Their speculation finally prompted a 30-word "Announcement" on Page 2 of Pravda last week. "In connection with inquiries received," said Pravda, the party's Central Committee "announces that Comrade F. R. Kozlov could not take part in the May 1 festivities because of illness." The word in Moscow was that Kozlov, who missed the 1961 May Day parade because of heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: New Successor for K.? | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

...lost out in a back-room power struggle? Or was he merely trying to smooth the way for a possible successor? If the public was baffled, so were the free world's Kremlinologists, that tight little band of experts who spend half their time reading between Pravda's lines and half peering into their crystal balls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: On the Other Hand | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

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