Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Freda Utley, 79, acerbic, English-born author (Odyssey of a Liberal, Last Chance in China), and journalist; of a stroke; in Washington, D.C. A member of the British Communist Party, she moved to the Soviet Union in 1930 but grew disillusioned with Stalin's regime when her Soviet husband was exiled to Siberia, where he died in a concentration camp. She emigrated to the U.S. in 1939, became a foreign correspondent for the Reader's Digest, and during the McCarthy hearings of 1950 testified about Communist influence on U.S. foreign policy in the Far East...
Though covert operations involving intervention in the internal affairs of other countries are being reduced, some have been successful. The CIA-backed overthrow of Iran's Premier Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953 and of Guatemala's President Jacobo Arbenz the following year headed off threats of Communist takeovers and stabilized conditions to the benefit of the Western world. Other operations were more dubious. In the Dominican Republic, Dictator Rafael Trujillo was assassinated in 1961 by rebels supplied with guns by CIA agents. The ensuing chaos forced President Johnson to send in the Marines four years later. Notes New York University...
...image off a radar scope, the plane is nicknamed "Blackbird" for its sooty heat-resistant paint job. The world's highest-flying and fastest manned airplane, the SR-71 can travel more than 2,000 m.p.h. Though the U.S. has honored Eisenhower's promise, in 1967, as Communist Chinese nuclear technicians triggered their first hydrogen bomb, they were stunned by a blip moving across the radar scope; Blackbird was photographing the whole show. The plane carries high-powered cameras that can map most of the U.S. in three passes, as well as three-dimensional filming equipment that...
...Greece, he is Ivan Udaltsov, who, while serving as counselor at the Soviet embassy in Prague, helped to crush the Czech reform regime of Alexander Dubcek in 1968. Three months after he arrived in Athens in 1976, Ambassador Udaltsov was accused of funneling $25 million to the Greek Communist Party; unfazed, he called a press conference to declare: "I was not upset by those reports. The KGB is a highly respected organization set up by Lenin to protect the socialist revolution and the Soviet state...
...favorite recruitment tactic, with sex and drugs the standard come-ons, but sometimes other pressure is applied as well. Last month Iranian Major General Ahmed Mogharebi confessed that he had spied for the KGB after Soviet agents threatened to reveal his past membership in Iran's outlawed Communist Party, Tudeh. The leader of the Iranian spy ring, a government official named Ali-Naghi Rabbani, had sophisticated radio equipment for receiving Soviet satellite transmissions in his home. Rabbani's clandestine contact was the Soviet consul in Tehran, Boris Kabanov, who was expelled from the country. Both Mogharebi and Rabbani...