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The Ran affair – a blunder of Polish secret service in the USSR in 1936In the atmosphere of omnipresent escalating terror Stalin’s state, on May 28th, 1936, a Polish military secret service officer, Stefan Kasperski, was arrested in Moscow. Officially, he worked in the Polish Consulate in Kiev as a clerk named Alfred Ran, and unofficially he ran a secret service unit H5. In the 1930s the so called...
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