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    Amtorg Trading Corporation, also known as Amtorg (short for Amerikanskaya Torgovlya, Russian: Амторг), was the first trade representation of the Soviet...
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    the Supreme Council of National Economy, and the Amtorg Trading Corporation, May 31, 1929, Amtorg Records 1929–1930, Acc. 199, box 1a, Benson Ford Research...
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    in 1924, Amtorg Trading Corporation, based in New York, was the main organization governing trade between the USSR and the US. By 1946, Amtorg organized...
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  • which he graduated in June 1940 and shortly thereafter began working for Amtorg. Semyonov had a mastery of French and English.[citation needed] Semyonov...
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  • representative in United States and Great Britain. He is best known as Chairman of Amtorg Trading Corporation in New York City (1927–1930) and Chairman of the All-Russian...
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    Rosenberg ring.[citation needed] During some period, Cohen was an employee of Amtorg. After training Soviet agents in Moscow for decades, Cohen retired on a...
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  • not shared by his government. In 1935, the Soviet Union, through the US Amtorg Trading Corporation, an alleged[clarification needed] Soviet-arms front...
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    International Churchill Society. Retrieved February 28, 2020. "FOREIGN TRADE: Amtorg's Spree". Time. February 19, 1940. Archived from the original on October...
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    relations Russia–United States relations Embassy of the United States, Moscow Amtorg Soviet Government Purchasing Commission in the U.S. List of ambassadors...
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    headquarters of Amtorg, the Soviet Union trading company located in a loft building on 24th Street in Midtown Manhattan. There an American worker for Amtorg gave...
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  • Hede Massing (section Amtorg)
    him a "near-perfect spy."[citation needed] Massing was an employee of the Amtorg Trading Corporation. This Deception (1951) "Richard Sorge: der fast vollkommene...
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    Built by Dongan Engine Manufacturing Company (aka Harbin Engine Factory). Amtorg KM-2 (Improved PBY Catalina, built under Consolidated license) Douglas TS-82...
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    capacity as vice-chairman of VSNKh, Mezhlauk, together with President of Amtorg, Saul Bron, signed the agreement with the Ford Motor Company for assistance...
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    in 1924, Amtorg Trading Corporation, based in New York, was the main organization governing trade between the USSR and the USA. By 1946, Amtorg organized...
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  • and mechanical movement manufacturer. Via its USA-based trading company Amtorg, the Soviet government bought the defunct Ansonia Clock Company of Brooklyn...
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  • of classified documents to Soviet intelligence in the 1970s. The Soviet Amtorg Trading Corporation had been conducting surveillance for decades. Engineers...
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    Ordnance Bureau to adopt his Christie tank design. In 1930, Soviet agents at Amtorg, ostensibly a Soviet trade organization, used their New York political contacts...
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    Hamilton County, New York along with Isay Khurgin [ru], the first head of Amtorg Trading Corporation. Both men were drowned. The high-ranking Soviet defector...
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    tractor assembled at the Stalingrad Tractor Plant). In February 1930, between Amtorg and Albert Kahn, Inc., a firm of American architect Albert Kahn, an agreement...
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  • 1929, through an agreement signed with Kahn by Saul G. Bron, President of Amtorg, the Soviet government contracted Albert Kahn Associates to help design...
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    Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley as "Bill" – and that he worked for Amtorg. Akhmerov spoke Turkish, English and French. He married Helen Lowry (AKA...
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    interest in American and European manufacturing know-how, exploited by Amtorg Corporation. Later, with Western restrictions on the export of items thought...
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    equipment or weapons, Soviet OGPU agents at the trade front organization AMTORG managed to secure plans and specifications for the Christie M1928 tank chassis...
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  • machinery and tooling was sold to the Soviet government's US trading company Amtorg, just before the stock market crash. The parts, machinery and key skilled...
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  • Всероссийское Кооперативное Общество, «АРКОС»), and Tsentrosoyuz in London, and Amtorg in New York with long-term agreements with foreign insurance companies....
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    Fordson production, the next big Soviet orders of American tractors via the Amtorg Trading Corporation went to IHC and others. The Roaring Twenties had certainly...
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    operations in the city in 1930. The machinery and tools were sold to the Amtorg Trading Corporation, one of Soviet Russia's buying agencies in the US, for...
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  • 1927, falling sales led to the company going into receivership. In 1930, Amtorg Trading Corporation purchased the Dueber-Hampden Watch Company together...
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  • JDL members seized two floors of an office building in New York housing Amtorg, the official Soviet Union trade office, and evicted the personnel in what...
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  • that Ladejinsky "required clearance from the Communist Party" to work for Amtorg Trading Corporation, for whom he served briefly as a translator in 1930...
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