CHANCELLERIES: She Chose Turkey

To every Soviet foreign mission is attached a Soviet secret cop. Part of his job is to see that Soviet representatives put and keep behind them all varieties of the foreign bourgeois Satan. Between temptations and spies, Soviet diplomats sometimes get into serious jams of a kind unknown in the foreign services of non-Soviet countries.

In Ankara last week, it was reported that the Soviet Embassy’s second secretary, Kariagdy Hassanov, had been peremptorily summoned to Moscow. But his wife chose to stay in Turkey, and prudently went into hiding.

Curious, Ankara’s Yeni Sabah inquired further, learned that Madame Hassanov had been caught reading a forbidden book. The book: Russian Expatriate Victor Kravchenko’s terrifying story of life in the Soviet Union, I Chose Freedom.