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eyes that gave one the impression that he hated the very sight of you, he
gave at least one girl worker the shivers whenever he emerged from his
sanctum and spoke to her when she was alone in the office on night
duty. Never with a hat and always with his raincoat, which he wore in all
seasons, Boki seems to have been an administrator rather than a
cryptologist. He was executed in 1938 in the great Stalinist purges.
Afterwards, it was discovered that he had, most unsocialistically,
hoarded gold and silver coins.
The Spets-Otdel handled both cryptography and crypt-analysis. In
1933, the cryptographers worked in a big room on the fourth floor of a
former insurance building that the O.G.P.U. occupied at 6 Lubyanka
Street. The cryptanalysts were then on the top floor of a former Ministry
of Foreign Affairs building at the corner of Lubyanka Street and
Kuznetsky Bridge Street. The comings and goings of ordinary tenants on
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