Notable American victims of the period are Victor Herman, John Tuchelsky [ru] (1894-1938) and Thomas Sgovio (1916—1997).
The mistreatment of American citizens ranged from denying consular access to incarceration in a gulag to execution.
Attempts to renounce this citizenship or to contact the American embassy were blocked; these people were harassed by the authorities, and those who were most insistent landed in a gulag on trumped-up charges.
[1] A number of Americans, mostly military pilots, were captured during the Korean War in North Korea and ended up in the Soviet Union.
[5][6][7][8] Dmitri Volkogonov, a former Soviet general and co-chairman of the Task Force Russia told a US Senate Committee that 730 airmen had been captured on Cold War spy flights.