Word: secrets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Little Judy relaxed. Her defense rested on this story: her pocketbook happened to be crammed with FBI secret papers on March 4, when she was arrested in New York, because she was going to study them for a civil service examination; some of the papers were her own notes for a novel she was going to write; she had made the tryst that winter night with Valentin Gubichev, Russian engineer employee of U.N., because she was in love with him and not for any purposes of espionage. Kelley questioned her about a previous meeting she had had with Gubichev...
From church pulpits throughout Czechoslovakia, Roman Catholic priests last Sunday read a defiant, 4,000-word pastoral letter, delivered to them by couriers sent out from a secret meeting of the country's bishops. They read it despite nocturnal visits from the police, despite the warning of Communist Premier Zapotocky that further "antistate" activity would be met with arrests and trials. They were fortified with the words of their archbishop, Josef Beran, who remained in his Prague palace surrounded by armed plainclothesmen. "Do not allow yourselves to be intimidated by threats," he had written. "In these difficult times...
Cells & Pipelines. With the help of these adherents and with reviving elements of the Confederation of Venezuelan Workers, A.D. set up an underground. It now has cells throughout the country and free-flowing pipelines into the army as well as into the government. Even the junta's most secret acts are reported in one of the underground's ten "newspapers." Resistencia is the largest. Though possession of a copy is cause for immediate arrest, Resistencia's hand-to-hand circulation has doubled to 8,000 in two months...
...isolating vitamin C (ascorbic acid) from the plants of one of Hungary's favorite vegetables, paprika. As Nazi influence grew in Hungary, he found that his research was a handy cover for underground anti-Nazi work. One of his cloak & dagger jobs was carrying a secret letter to the British legation in Istanbul on the pretense of having to give a scientific lecture in Turkey. When the Gestapo got too close on his trail, he went completely underground disguised as an old man with beard and spectacles...
...still being run by David E. Smucker, the chief operating officer of the road before it went broke and now one of the trustees. He had no comment. This week the Pennsy talked back, saying: "The commission has not . . . unearthed anything new or anything that has been kept secret by the Pennsylvania ... A complete misunderstanding of the facts." The road also noted that the New York Public Service Commission had once said there was "little basis" for the impression that the Pennsy had been draining the Long Island...