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...several flaws that result from its enormous size and the Soviets' authoritarian mentality. KGB agents overcollect, flooding the district and home offices with so much data that the agency does not or cannot efficiently separate the significant from the trivial. This may explain why, according to a defector, KGB field men in the Middle East reported on Israel's plan to strike Egypt in 1967, but the word never got to Egypt. The society that creates KGB inefficiencies is also an enormous advantage to the agency, permitting it great latitude without measurable objection from its populace. After...
...news agency correspondent in Moscow in 1959, she interviewed the would-be defector who was then holed up in the Metropole Hotel. Lee was recovering from his first public act of violence-a suicide attempt prompted by the Soviets' initial reluctance to let him stay in Russia. To McMillan, Oswald made the astonishing statement that is the epigraph to her book...
...milk as the son of Marguerite Oswald. Her sense of grievance against a world that she felt owed her a living pervaded Lee's life, causing him, at the age of 20, to seek some fancied redress in the U.S.S.R. Though the Soviets finally accorded the American defector privileged status-with perquisites that included an apartment of his own and a cash subsidy-the Soviets' largesse could not satisfy Lee's inexhaustible demands...
...code name, Kim said, was "the Patriarch." Though he had, on orders from the Korean CIA, destroyed the Ice Mountain list of 40 to 50 Congressmen the agency wanted to buy, Kim said he remembered many of the names and had given them to the committee staff. Another embassy defector, Jai Hyon Lee, repeated a now familiar story of how he had accidentally surprised Ambassador Kim Dong Jo in his office stuffing envelopes containing cash into a briefcase. Asked where he was going with the money, Ambassador Kim replied, "To the Capitol...
What drove many fans to fury was the fact that a major defector to Packer was none other than the colorful captain of England's own international team: gangling (6 ft. 7 in.) South African-born Tony Greig, who justified his action by saying that he was fighting "for a principle." The tradition-minded barons of the game did not see it that way; they quickly stripped him of his title. One cricket commentator offered a huffy explanation for Greig's behavior: he was "an Englishman not by birth or upbringing, but only by adoption...