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Gennadi Varenik was a KGB major working in Bonn under cover as a correspondent for TASS, the Soviet news agency, when he was suddenly recalled to Moscow in November 1985. Four months earlier, Aldrich Ames had told the Soviets that Varenik was spying for the cia. He was charged with that crime, tried and executed. This was a murderous tragedy, mentioned briefly in David Wise's book. It also represented a significant setback for the U.S. TIME's investigation of the Varenik case over the past three months reveals that he was one of the most promising KGB double agents...
...March 1985, Varenik called from a pay phone. There was an arrangement that he call back in an hour. When he did, he set up a meeting with a CIA case officer in a Bonn-area hotel. A dark, quiet man, 32 at the time, Varenik described his situation. He had used $3,500 from the KGB station's operational funds for personal expenses, and an auditor was expected shortly from Moscow. Moreover, he owed another $3,500 to colleagues. His second daughter had just been born, but he was flat broke and couldn't even pay his rent. Worst...
Half a world away, the sinking dollar had a very different impact on vacation-bound Germans. They jammed foreign-exchange counters from Bonn to Berlin in search of greenbacks to spend at U.S. destinations such as Disney World in Florida or ski resorts in Colorado. Latecomers found banks sold out of dollars and were advised to try again in several days. That was not good enough for determined folk in Munich, who roamed from bank to bank in the hope of laying hands on the suddenly scarce currency...
...when his bet caused some $1 billion in losses for Baring Brothers & Co., after a drop in the Tokyo market last week. Police pulled him off a plane in Frankfurt last night and are detaining him. An extradition hearing before a judge is expected to take place tomorrow. TIME Bonn bureau chief Bruce Van Voorst says legal wrangling could keep Leeson in Germany for months. He notes the Germans have not interrogated Leeson, but they have had "chats" during which the 28-year-old said he wants to be sent to London. No formal charges have yet been filed.Post...
...country and the opera house are often decisive when he chooses his approach. ``I am a different director in Europe from America,'' he says. Especially in Germany, land of state subsidies and a public that may have seen 50 versions of Figaro, he may go the experimental route. In Bonn in April, for instance, he will produce a Manon Lescaut inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper. In the U.S., where opera must pay for itself, companies can rarely afford productions that may be one-year sensations. When Met general manager Joseph Volpe ordered up Butterfly, he wanted a show...