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American prisoner recalls eight years in Soviet gulag system
Alexander Dolgan, an American embassy clerk in Moscow, was seized on Gorky Street in December 1938 and spent eight years in Lubyanka and Lefortovo before a 1951 transfer to Dzerkazgan labor camp. He was released in 1996, later working for the U S Health Education and Welfare in Bethesda. He describes torture and coerced confessions but says he was kept unaware by many officials of his fate.
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Bernard Gwertzman
Washington
NYT
Alexander M. Dolgan
United States
Moscow
Gorky Street
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Pri
Central Telegraph Office
Dolgun
Buddy
Colgan
Lubyanka
Foreign Service
Lefokovo
Ryumin
Secret Police
Dolgan
Dzerkazgan
Kazakhstan
Amencae
U.S
New York
Lyuboml
Ukraine
Harges
Antonas Ludvikus Impulevicus
Anatas L. Impulenas
Philadelphia
Immigration Service
Impulevicus
Irene
Andrew
Rockville