New Britain herald., 1930-09-16
RED AGENT QUITS FOR LOVE 0F GIRL
Deserts Cheka Performed" By
 Girl of Capitalist Glass
BY NnNOTT SAUNDERS

Paris, Sept. 15-Love in the class of the hated capitalists and the ter rorism of the secret soviet police system most strangely conflict, Georges Agabekoff, recent Cheka chieftain in the Near East has discovered. He deserted his service to find a happy home and political haven in France, but has been as sisted across the Belgian frontier by the police and told not to come back.
 Agabekoff created quite a stir in Russian circles here when he ar rived from Constantinople several weeks ago as a reformed terrorist. confessing that he had directed the systematic theft of military and diplomatic documents, supervised attempts at wholesale bribery in foreign offices and legations and dealt out life and death among the workers of the organization.
 With him was a pretty 20-year- old daughter of a member of the British diplomatic corps in Con- stantinople. He admitted his affec- ton for this lovely girl had brought about a dramatic turn in his polit- ical carer. She had reformed him, he said.
 Closely following them came the girls mother, determined to prevent the marriage. She appar- ently was having some success, warning her daughter of disinheri- tance and disgrace, when the French police suddenly intervened and sent the prospective bridegroom out of the country.
 Deserted the Cheka | Agabekoff, who has been only one of several self-styled reformed Cheka agents who has come here and asked protection, told an un- usual story of politics and love. A Russian Armenian, aged 35, he said he spent 10 years in the Cheka metropolitan service at Moscow and then was sent to the high and active post in the Near East. After doing work, of which he spoke with rpride, he said that conditions in the Cheka became intolerable, and that his resignation, or desertion, was a protest against the policies of the present government.
 But while going good in the dis guise of wealthy Persian carpet merchant, he met the girl of his dreams, who changed his whole philosophy of life. At first, she knew nothing about his Russian secrets, but finally love loosened his tongue and he confessed. It was then that she persuaded him to abandon the communist cause.
 Started Writing Book
 With the fear of a marked man for the Cheka never forglves- Agabekoff looked forward happily to marriage. He started feNrishly to- write book, flor posterity," on the machinations of the commun- ists, hoping he could be married and not killed before he finished His passport allowed him two months in Paris, but all this time it has been revealed. he was watch ed by French detectives, and when he applied for an extension of his visit he was deported.
 The suggestion has followed that the French police had little faith ir Agabekoff's reform" There are several Russian political exiles liv. ing in Paris whom the Checka, ol | 1jl.a fn 6o91 with summarily. The disappearance ol General Koutepoff, leader of the White Russians, who innocentlS stepped into an automobile neal his home last January and has not been heard from since, has no' been forgotten.
 There are hundreds of others like me-" said Agabekoff when he came here, but for fear of the consequences they dare not free themselves. The Cheka discipline which means death to those who , refuse to take an order, is still firm enough to inspire them all witt dread.
 Says Power of Cheka Wanes
 But the power of the Chek.s has begun to wane and the influence of his foreign agents becomes les' each month. This is due to picker ing and disagreements at head quarters in Moscow. and the con fused political situation in Russia.
 "The domestic situation in Rus sia is fast declining to a level com parative with that which existed during the famine of 1921. This i' the result of two disastrous policies first, trying to industrialize the