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...Italian Communists for supporting the Greek Communists in the civil war in Greece. He and his principal associate for all of his career, Raymond Rocca, who retired recently from the CIA, where he had been Angleton's chief deputy, ferreted out the exchange of correspondence between Stalin and Tito that foreshadowed the 1948 breach between them...
...secret. The only people who know what he really did are his superiors and those who worked with him. One exploit that can be told came early hi 1956. In collaboration with a friendly intelligence service, his unit acquired a copy of Nikita Khrushchev's famed denunciation of Stalin to the 20th Party Congress. Angleton and his lieutenants also developed the evidence that helped lead the FBI in 1957 to the KGB agent Colonel Rudolf Abel, who had operated since 1948 from an obscure photographer's shop in Brooklyn. The numbers of spies who have been caught...
...subsequently sentenced to 25 years for espionage because of her relationship with the American officer. Her baby girl was sent to live with an aunt in remote Kazakhstan in Central Asia. Although Zoya now declines to dwell on her ordeal, she is well remembered by another ex-inmate of Stalin's prisons and camps, Alexander Dolgun, who now lives in Maryland. A former U.S. embassy clerk who was kidnaped by the Soviet secret police in 1948 and freed only in 1956, Dolgun spent years in the same vast concentration camp as Zoya. "She ended up in Dzhezkazgan, a hard...
When conditions in the camp improved after Stalin's death in 1953, Dolgun added, many of Zoya's films, like the ultra-patriotic Boyevye Podrugi (Comrades at Arms), were shown to the prisoners. But Zoya's name was obliterated from the credits. In 1955 Zoya was released and reunited with her daughter. Since then Zoya has returned to films as a character actress, and Victoria has become a famous movie actress herself. She has been featured in 17 major films, and starred as a deaf-mute in A Ballad of Love. When Ballad was released...
...Cartoon History of United States Foreign Policy Since World War I. In an introduction, Political Analyst Richard H. Rovere acknowledges the ability of certain cartoons to provide "flashes of extraordinary insight and political prescience." In this category he places a David Low cartoon of 1939. Hitler bows to Stalin: "The scum of the earth, I believe." Stalin returns the courtesy: "The bloody assassin of the workers, I presume." Recalls Rovere: "It took most of us more than 20 years to catch up with the truth captured by Low-that where ideology and national interest are in conflict, national interest prevails...