Word: briefingate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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One NSA official involved in GUNMAN concluded that since some of the typewriter bugs were battery powered, the Soviets must have had a way of getting into secure areas of the embassy to replace these batteries. Remaining in Moscow to figure out how this might be done, this official wrote...
The Soviet delegation was careful not to do or say anything in public that might offend the Chinese. When a briefing by Soviet cultural luminaries was dominated by questions about the student demonstrations, the director of the Soviet press center at the Beijing International Hotel finally blew up. "You are...
Checking his notes after being questioned at a midnight briefing about the remark, Gerasimov quoted Gorbachev as saying, "And we have our hotheads, too."
Shevardnadze's charm will be tested this week in his first lengthy encounter with Baker. Not that the Foreign Minister will leave everything to the vagaries of personal chemistry. There will be more late nights, with briefing papers to be finished and reviewed for the Baker visit and China summit...
Despite the brouhaha, the Navy is going ahead with its plans to use the dolphins as guards. Thomas LaPuzza, a spokesman for the Naval Ocean Systems ) Center in San Diego, where the dolphins have been trained, refuses to comment on their mission, which is classified, but claims they are highly...