Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. Redin, a Soviet Purchasing Commission agent, had been picked up by the FBI just before he and his attractive wife Galina were to depart for Russia last March. The charge: he had bought secret information about the not-so-secret U.S. Navy destroyer tender Yellowstone. His accuser: a man he had thought was his friend, elderly Herbert Kennedy, a marine engineer who worked in the yards where the Yellowstone was built...
...More Quarrels. The report told how the spies operated. The espionage nerve centers were in secret rooms on the second floor of the Soviet Embassy. From there five separate rings operated, spying out Canada's war secrets, and also spying on one another. They rowed so frequently that Moscow finally sent instructions: "There should be no more quarreling between the various systems operating in Canada...
...Army and Naval Intelligence services, and the NKVD secret police each had its system. The fourth was a political ring under Peter G. Goussarov, who rated as a second secretary in the Embassy; the evidence showed that he had "authority . . . on the level of an ambassador." The fifth and most active unit was the Military Intelligence network bossed by Colonel Nicolai Zabotin (TIME, March 11). Canada's Communist (Labor Progressive) party furnished the rings with recruits. Their pay was small, usually only $30 to $100 for a piece of information...
President Lou Perini of the Boston Braves decided not to wait for fall. He heard that Organizer Murphy had held a secret meeting with his players, promptly flew to Chicago to talk it over with his boys. Result: he agreed to cut out doubleheaders on days after night games and pay a minimum annual wage of $6,000, the paychecks to start with spring training...
...greatest embalming job of the 20th Century was the mummification of V. I. Lenin. Until last week, the technique had always remained a dark secret of Soviet science. Finally, Dr. Herwig Hamperl, famed Austrian pathologist who taught in Moscow and was a close friend of the embalmers, let the world in on some of the secret...