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There is no charisma about Andropov. So far he is using television less than his two immediate predecessors. The curiosity of the Soviet people and the world will bring out more information about Andropov. But be careful, American officials warn. The real past is so dim that the official mosaic may be myth. It is no wonder that Ronald Reagan looked at the secret intelligence assessments and told his aides that he would wait to see what Andropov did before he judged...
...incident that would have seemed improbable in the most contrived spy thriller unfolded in the Green Room of the Kremlin. As leader of the American delegation attending the Brezhnev burial, Vice President George Bush had been invited for a private chat with the new Communist Party chief, Yuri Andropov. The atmosphere was stiffly formal. Bush, who had been director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1976 to 1977, tried to break the ice with a bit of humor. Said the Vice President: "I feel I already know you, since we served in similar positions." Andropov sized up his American guest...
...Andropov well knew, there is nothing at all similar about the position Bush held for a year and the powers that the Soviet leader wielded for 15 years as chief of the world's largest spy and state-security machine. From an office in the KGB's ocher-colored neo-Renaissance headquarters at 2 Dzerzhinsky Square,* barely a mile from the Kremlin, the head of the KGB oversees an intricate network of espionage and information-gathering operations that further the political objectives of the Communist Party. Unlike the CIA, the KGB works both abroad and at home, doing...
...During Andropov's tenure at Dzerzhinsky Square, the KGB stepped up efforts to influence world events in the Soviet Union's favor through propaganda and disinformation, so-called active measures. Some of the KGB's more polished agents abroad have apparently been instructed in recent years to cultivate officials of their host governments and drop tantalizingly frank tidbits of information during cocktail-party chatter. Says former West German Counterespionage Officer Hans Josef Horchem: "They come right up to a man, knowing that he knows they are KGB, and with a wink of the eye, they calmly ask him about exactly...
...Andropov era, the KGB has apparently been careful not to soil its own hands with murders of revenge, political assassination and other "wet" (bloody) affairs. A plot against the Pope would have demanded extreme caution, since it conceivably could have endangered Andropov's political prospects and damaged the Kremlin's European peace offensive. Says Hélène Carrère d'Encausse: "If the West becomes convinced of Andropov's implication in this affair, it will not only diminish his international authority but shatter the modern, nonterrorist image that he has sought