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...York he washed windows, peddled papers, made shirts, buttonholes and mattresses, became a citizen. In 1930, he says, he worked for about a year as an interpreter at the Soviet trading agency, Amtorg...
...This, the jubilant Russians told him, was worth "two or three brigades of men." Later, when Abe grumbled that his work for the U.S.S.R. was not appreciated, Gold introduced him to the chief Russian spy. His name: Semen Semenov. Spy Semenov's cover-up was a job with Amtorg in New York but Gold told Brothman that the Russian had come directly from the U.S.S.R. to thank him. Abe called this "one of the most wonderful experiences of my life," said Gold...
...State Department counted red Russian noses in the U.S., last week reported that the Soviet embassy staff in Washington, the Soviet delegation to the United Nations, plus assorted Tass correspondents, Amtorg men, children, wives and babushki totaled 410. Total U.S. citizens-diplomats and dependents (113), correspondents (5), fur buyers (12), etc. -now in the U.S.S.R...
...Amtorg Trading Corp. employee named Semen M. Semenov was Gold's first boss; after being handed the RDX sample, he told the Philadelphian to forget Slack for "a very important assignment"-getting atomic information from Fuchs. From then on, Gold had reported to Anatoli Antonovich Yakovlev, Soviet vice consul in New York...
First Secretary to the Soviet U.N. Delegation Leonid A. Morozov signed a lease for the summer on the lavish, 47-room, 18-bathroom Long Island home of the late J. Pierpont Morgan, which was once (1945-47) rented by Amtorg as a haven for relaxing Russian bigwigs...