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Illicit Commerce Carefully Organized to Yield
Funds for International Trade and Espionage...
FRED SPARKS, Times Foreign Correspondent A, Sept. 22-—How was the great Soviet crime ring born? The Russians first went into the rackets after Ivan _tommygunned his way into battered Berlin, In order to help pay occupation costs and relieve Ivan (who was getting | too fat) of some of his converted loot, Marshall Sokolovsky’s 8 ran official. black-market stores. In Betlin and Vienna, at prices] pegged WAY above local ceilings ribs stuck out like the strings they openly peddled goods through on a bgnjo, and his shoes were Intra-Tourist—a Soviet-sponsored |
the stuffed shelves, This at
time when the average German’ nl
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_ The Great Soviet Crime Ring—
‘Moscow Takes Over Huge Black Market Network In Attempt To ‘Gather In Deller
| lowed. Any man could walk injern Europe had something East-|This was left to a vast army of Europe's present banker and ruaning in horrible high. Around | merce and the business end of {oft the streets if he had the capi- ern Europe hankered for — raw camp followers who drifted into cash vault. |tal—and no coupons needed, com- materials and manufactured continental ‘black ¥inarkets at the) From Germany and Austria incredible collection of thieves | rade. v the black- marketeers, through in- |speaking every language except motherland in matters monetary speranto. They all served them- —with proven links to the crime with ring--is the brilliant Zoltan Vas, {n the drippings of war, occupation Hungarian .njnister of trade and and disorganizatiofi, Is there a single personality— ranks high in. ‘the Cominform, clearing house for all Communist
lined with yesterday's newspapers. Choice cuts of beef, milk, po-| To raise the marks for these
tatoes, warm garments and other {fantastic goodies, famished herheavily rationed items were on
[renvolk sold jewelry, watches,[of* Europe was complete. aifurs and family heirlooms that were dusty when Bismarck bel-
"This first pleasing experience with dirty commercial |gave same unsung Communist mighty mind this idea: “wy not make wider use of Europe’s| black markets. Particularly to raise badly needed dollars for oh ternational trade, diplomacy, es. pionage and propaganda?” For by this time the dollar had become dominant and the political and economic division|
|goods avatlable only for that des- end of the war. [pised Yankee“ dollar, The black markét became the {medium , . . the no-mah's-land
Mighty Idea Is Bora |
Clearance of
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_ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
was to . smuggle stuff
It was a snap to divert alavolding whacking. portion of normal from behind the iron curtain to! {Russian and stooge-state trade
Ito. the black. Snarkets. depots in Germany and Austria,l
where wher t profits were double. For the 9; Sontrols are. impossible.
"police state controls every lof commerce. t
shred! From Soviet warehouses
{played the role of jobbers.
The procedure instituted, which ternational connections, smuggled
has been followed religiously ever and resold goods in high de o almost every other nation this whirling world.
Spreads Throughout World
Soon this network of crooked
travelers and in Zurich -—ithe great Soviet crime ring was economic plans, t
mand Selves — and the Kremlin —
a Capone—pulling the strings on,
‘commerce became a two-way the great Soviet crime ring? Al- copyright. 1949. by The India stretch. When Uncle Sam's lied sleuths I have chatted with tnd Blears Buliy"fowe". the!counter-blockade banned the So-| | products were then wholesaled to yjet sphere from buying certain | individual black-marketeers, who strategic materials — even for iy {green dollars—they were forced to the Gosplan Bureau in Mosese jobbers had to pay the into the black market to buy as OW. East- the great Soviet crime ring Commies In dollars collected by well as to sell, uy And so, by the spring of 1047, | derstanding
cannot pinpoint any Soviet superman. Certainly, all lines lead
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{economic czar,
{it mushroomed into action an | administering areas. Chief pro-consul outside of the
Comrade Vas
manipulations outside of Russia.
Columnist to Speak
Herbert Hill, Indianapolis News columnist, will speak on “As I of
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19:
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Infants’ Crib Blankets
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