by 18 officials, 10 of whom were discovered to be Jews. The situation at the central censorship office (Glavlit) did not inspire “political confidence” for similar reasons. 138 The more frequent the contact with the enemy, the greater the danger of infection. In whose hands—still speaking of journalists—was Soviet overseas propaganda, an area where political confidence was so hard to earn and so easy to abuse? Jews made up 23 percent of the top managers in the Telegraphic Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS), and 49 percent in the Radio-Telegraphic Agency of Ukraine (RATAU). The “national composition” of the Soviet Information Bureau was 48 percent Jews, 40 percent Russians, and 12 percent others; the Russian Section of the Foreign Literature Publishing House was 90 percent Jewish; and the official Soviet English-language newspaper, Moscow News , was being produced by 1 Russian, 1 Armenian, and 23 Jews. 139 The economic base was as rotten as the ideological superstructure. Who was building Soviet cars? Forty-two Jews were arrested and thirteen executed in connection with the “Jewish nationalism” affair at the Moscow Automobile Plant. Who was designing Soviet airplanes? Sixty Jewish researchers were fired from the Zhukovsky Institute (but not S. A. Lavochkin, the creator of LA fighters, or M. L. Mil, the creator of MI helicopters). Why was Soviet tank production being entrusted to Isaak Moiseevich Zaltsman, from the shtetl Tomashpol in Podolia? Why, at the end of the Great Patriotic War, did Jews constitute one-third of all chief engineers at Soviet armaments plants? And who (stage whisper) was building the Soviet atomic bomb? And how were they connected to their kinsmen building the American atomic bomb? And what about the spies who were, in their own way, trying to connect the two atomic bombs? 140 Aliens were everywhere: in your home, under your bed—or even in your bed. Was it a coincidence that Comrade Stalin’s elder son, Yakov, was married to a Jewish woman? (She was arrested after Yakov’s capture by the Germans but released soon after his death.) Or that Comrade Stalin’s daughter kept falling in love with one Jew after another? (Svetlana’s first love, A. Ya. Kapler, was sent into exile, and her first husband, G. I. Morozov, was asked to move out and given a new passport with the marriage entry removed.) And what about all those wives: Comrade Molotov’s, Comrade Andreev’s, Comrade Voroshilov’s? 141 Most frightening of all was the realization that the “vigilant Chekists” combating the forces of evil were themselves werewolves. A special secret police investigation of the secret police revealed a massive “Zionist conspiracy”