Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agents laughed, told him that his diplomatic immunity had been revoked.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 against Langelle...
...afternoon, U.S. Charge d'Affaires Edward L. Freers delivered a hot, factladen protest to the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Russian reply did not deny any of the facts, instead announced that "competent authorities," presumably the same Kremlin officials who ordered the kidnap, found Langelle to be engaged in secret intelligence work, and therefore persona non grata. Langelle thus became the eleventh U.S. official to be kicked out of Russia since 1952, but the first to undergo third-degree preliminaries...
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...
Washington has denied that Langelle 37, engaged in espionage. The State Department charged he was abducted manhandled, threatened and framed. The State Department also said the Russians tried to get him to spy for the Soviet Union and he refused...
...reason for U.S. intransigence to an eastern bloc country lies in the necessity for a majority of seven members of the council to pass an emergency issue on to the General Assembly in case of a Soviet veto. Apparently Washington feels that when such an issue arises it will be unable to carry along with it more than one of the two Latin American or two neutralist countries on the Council. Insisting on this stacked jury makes the whole Council a farce. Even many Scandinavian, Latin American and British Commonwealth nations, usually satellites of the U.S. when voting...