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...manipulation and recruitment of foreigners who might influence their governments' policies. Though the CIA, according to U.S. intelligence specialists, is far superior to the KGB in "comint" and "elint" (communications and electronic intelligence), the Soviets excel in "humint" (intelligence gathering through human contact). This was spectacularly demonstrated in Bonn last year, when West German counterintelligence finally caught up with a KGB agent functioning as a madam. For three years the operative had run a brothel catering to politicians and diplomats from whom she obtained political and military secrets...
...periods of East-West tension, passages from its pages are quoted in the Western press like captured battlefield communiqués. Specialists in Bonn, London, Paris and Washington sift through its stilted, often impenetrable prose searching for subtle shifts in foreign policy. Photographs of the ruling elite are scrutinized for changes in status, and cartoons are scoured for arcane political references. "Pravda," says its editor, Victor Afanasyev, "is read on the lines and between the lines...
...Carter not been told privately? The explanation: Giscard was still annoyed over leaks from Washington that led Paris to withdraw from a scheduled meeting in Bonn last February involving Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and his British, French and West German counterparts. On the basis of the leaks, the French concluded that the U.S. was trying to pressure its allies into a joint stance of opposition to the Soviets' Afghan invasion. Said one French diplomat: "Giscard has no confidence that Carter can keep a secret...
...nationally televised debate, voted 59 to 40 to keep German athletes out of Moscow. Committee Chairman Willi Daume grumbled that "a nonpolitical group has been forced to make a political decision," and he was right. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt had made it clear in dozens of public statements how the Bonn government wanted the vote to turn out. Moreover, polls showed that about 80% of West Germans backed the boycott, while polls in France showed 70% opposed...
Carter hailed the German decision as "courageous," and U.S. officials hope it will sway the committees of several European nations. Austria, Belgium, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, all are voting this week. Saturday is the deadline for a final go, no-go decision. Bonn's move might lead to reversal of go decisions by some others. Maybe even France. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is said to have promised Schmidt that the French would not go to Moscow if the Germans stayed away. Giscard, indeed, could even be trying to play a complex double game: winning Soviet...