Word: czechoslovakias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...role to play. Explains a U.S. intelligence official: "The chief of the KGB residency in Washington holds regular meetings with the heads of the satellite intelligence services based in Washington, and they often divide up intelligence tasks." Czechoslovakia, formerly a favored channel for disinformation, seems to have taken on the job of watching East bloc émigrés. East Germany is said to excel in electronic surveillance and detection equipment. Before martial law was imposed, Poland offered the best approach to influencing opinion in the West. In the U.S. alone, Poland reportedly can call on agents among some 200 trade...
...peace-loving forces on earth are looking at Prague in anticipation," the Soviet Communist Party daily Pravda reported with due solemnity. If they were, all that they saw was perfunctory television footage when leaders from the seven Warsaw Pact nations converged on Czechoslovakia's capital last week for their biennial summit. The main attraction was the tall, stooped figure who stepped off a Soviet airplane at Prague's rain-soaked Ruzyne Airport. Yuri Andropov was making his first trip abroad since he became party chief last November. As it turned out, his foreign debut did not quite measure...
...year hitch as head of the most powerful secret police in the world, a three-year term as Soviet Ambassador to Hungary, where he may or may not have acquired his penchant for furniture, but did help crush a revolution; membership in the inner circle that decided Czechoslovakia deserved an invasion in 1968. He has also been a longtime quasher of dissidents, and was eager to remove civil liberties from Poland. Noteworthy as such information is, none of it has the exhilarating effect of making one suspect Mr. Andropov has the gypsy in his soul...
...wonder General Jaruzelski is such an efficient and experienced oppressor of his own people. He is a recipient of the Order of Lenin, bestowed upon him by the Soviet Union for his service during the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia...
After the Russian Revolution, Jakobson moved to Czechoslovakia. There in collabration-with a Czech scholar, he founded a new discipline, phenology, which marked a turning point in the modern science of Ilnguistics...