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1954 - Russian Murder Squad Give Themselves Up. Three Men With Poisoned Bullets: A Russian secret police agent and two East German secret police have surrendered to the Americans. They say they were sen; from Moscow to West Germany to murder an anti-Communist Russian. They were armed with special guns, disguised as cigarette cases, which fired poisoned bullets. The Russian is Captain Nikdai Khoklov, aged 31, of the MVD, the Soviet secret police. He appeared at a crowded Press conference called by the U.S. High Commissioner, Mr. James B. Conant, in Bonn. A U.S. official, Mr. J. MacDermott, said Khoklov's story had been subjected to world-side investigation by U.S. security officers. Not until they were satisfied on all points was it decided to make the story public. Khoklov told not only of the assassination plot but details of the workings of Russian's secret police and also details of the murder of Leon Trotsky in Mexico. The two East Germans were named as Hans Koruwicz and Kurt Weber. They are in protective custody. Their intended victim was a Russian named Georgio Okolovich, a member of the anti-Communist NTS executive committee in Frankfurt. The murder guns the three carried were disguised as cigarette cases. They had special silencers and electrically fired. The lead bullets held deadly poison. When the case, which is covered in leather in opened it shows the end of 23 cigarettes. Under a false bottom is the firing appartus and a 1.5 volt battery. Photo shows The murder guns with which

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