Russia - Soviet Union

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 sent 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 Bonu. A. U.S. official, Mr. J. McDermott, said Khoklov's story had been subjected to world-wide investigation by U.S. Security officers. Not until they were satisfied on all points was it decided tok the story public. Khoklov told not only of the assassination plot but details of the murder of 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 Georgi 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 were electrically fired. The lead bullets held deadly poison. Photo shows Captain Nikdai Khokhlov, photographed with photographs of his wife and boy at the press conference in Bonn today

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