Word: russians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Driven to a nearby building on Vorovskovo Street, ex-Navy Lieut. Commander Langelle produced his diplomatic card, claimed his diplomatic immunity from arrest. He demanded the right to call his embassy. The five Russian agents laughed, told him that his diplomatic immunity had been revoked. Then one Russian searched Langelle's topcoat, claimed to find a notebook, which Langelle had never seen before. Sure enough, when the Russian applied a handy chemical solution to its pages, he found invisible ink notes on Soviet secrets. The ploy: the notebook looked like prefabricated evidence for a sure-to-convict espionage trial...
...ploy didn't work. Langelle refused to talk about his embassy work. The Russian., threatened him with what the official U.S. note of protest politely called "physical violence," warned him that harm could come to his wife Miriam and their three small children. At length the Russians promised him money if he would spy on U.S. diplomats. After an hour and 45 minutes of this, the Russians gave up, let him loose at the corner where they captured...
There is no doubt that there were several Communist party members and fellow travellers among the twenty-four, but most were simply swept up by the energy of the European student groups. Most were unaware of the Russian Communist plot to create the organization, then subvert it and turn it into a front for Communist propaganda. The existence of that plot was confirmed several years later by a man who had been working with Allied intelligence in Austria. He told an NSA national officer that he had found out plans of the Communist group, which urged the formation...
MOSCOW, Oct. 19--Soviet newspaper sources asserted today that Moscow bus riders caught Russell A. Langelle of the U.S. Embassy handing over money to a Russian for secret intelligence data...
...motion, introduced by Councillor John D. Lynch, was apparently aimed as a reaction to a Cambridge Ministers' Association resolution criticizing the City Council for its recent motion that condemned Russian Premier Khrushchev's American tour...