Foreign News: Ogpu Secret

To keep secret from the World the most public event in Moscow is no trouble at all for Josef Stalin's super-secret OGPU. Last week Moscow correspondents were at last permitted to cable that the two top floors of the OGPU Building on Lubianka Square in the very heart of Moscow had been gutted by fire 13 days before. Thousands of Russians, yearning to watch the blaze which destroyed tons of OGPU secret records, were kept briskly moving Dy Red militiamen.

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