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Yurchenko's defection sent a major shock wave through the mysteriously intertwined network of East-West espionage, which has been vibrating all summer with a series of defections and reactions. Three weeks after Yurchenko's disappearance, Hans Joachim Tiedge, a senior official at West Germany's counterintelligence agency, called in sick. Four days later East Germany announced that Tiedge, who had been responsible since 1981 for detecting East German spies in his country, had gone over to the other side. Although he was in debt and had a drinking problem, some Western experts suspect that Tiedge feared exposure...
Whether subtle or blatant, the role of propaganda is becoming increasingly critical. Television images, bounced off satellites to the remotest corners of the world, have made the cliche of the global village a reality. The polarization of nations along East-West lines has intensified the ratings war. Totalitarian states, by virtue of their complete control over the media, are relentless producers of propaganda. Democracies are sometimes gullible consumers. Complex issues can be twisted and made dangerously simple by clever opinion shapers, and if the masses can be moved, their elected leaders must follow. Nuclear weapons have raised the stakes...
...largest East-West spy swap since World War II, the result of talks among six nations: the U.S., East and West Germany, Poland, Bulgaria and the Soviet Union. Negotiations began after Polish Spy Marian Zacharski was sentenced to life in prison in 1981 for buying classified documents from a Hughes Aircraft Co. radar engineer. Poland let the U.S. know it wanted him back. In 1983 Alfred Zehe, a Dresden physicist, was arrested in Boston for buying classified information from a Navy employee cooperating with the FBI. East Germany then entered the talks through Wolfgang Vogel, an East German lawyer...
Detente, with its scientific exchanges and increased East-West trade, was an enormous windfall for the Soviets. Pentagon officials still shake their heads over the guile of Soviet engineers who, as they toured a U.S. aircraft factory during the 1970s, would wear sticky-soled shoes to pick up metal filings. When the U.S. sent young scholars to Moscow to study Slavic languages, the Soviets exchanged "graduate students" who were often middle-age technocrats with a more than academic interest in microcircuitry. A huge truck factory built in the Soviet Kama region with U.S. financing and know-how, all acquired aboveboard...
...resumption of dis- armament negotiations in Geneva last week, Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev mixed some tough talk on the nuclear arms race with conciliatory noises about the need for East-West detente. During a meeting in Moscow with former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Gorbachev dismissed the first round of the Geneva negotiations, completed in April, as "completely fruitless" and insisted that U.S. plans for space weapons, or Star Wars, research would "dramatically increase the threat of a truly global, all-destroying military conflict...