Word: crackdowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opened the bag, he did not know that the surrounding roads of Montgomery County had been closed or that the FBI was watching. Thus did Lieut. Colonel Yevgeni Barmyantsev, 39, the acting Soviet military attaché in Washington, last week become a prominent figure in the growing Western crackdown on Soviet espionage activities...
...days before the military crackdown, Pinior withdrew 80 million zlotys--$940,000 at official exchange rates--from the union's coffers and is believed to have spent the money in the underground campaign to restore Solidarity once the only union in the Soviet bloc free of Communist Party control...
...full impact of the unexpected presidential move was only slightly diminished by a leak that appeared in a New York Times column by William Safire before the expulsions. Since the French on the previous Thursday had informed the U.S., along with the other NATO allies, of the impending crackdown and the number of Soviet officials involved, Safire appeared to have been tipped off by a talkative U.S. official. It could hardly have been a deliberate leak aimed at forcing the French to act sooner, since the machinery for the mass ouster was already in motion by the time Safire...
French, British and U.S. intelligence sources were quick to dismiss the possibility of any link between the French crackdown and expulsions elsewhere in Western Europe. French officials pointed out that the expelled Soviets had been under investigation long before Kuzichkin came in from the cold. Another hypothesis to help explain Mitterrand's move was the unresolved murder in mid-February of Lieut. Colonel Bernard Nut, a top French agent, although officials in Paris insisted that the incident was not "decisive" (see box). Analysts also rejected the theory that Mitterrand had been angered by the arrest a week earlier...
Despite a crackdown, the return to democracy stays on schedule...