Word: gaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boston sports was also blessed with a 108-100 victory by the Celtics over the New York Knicks in the opening game of the best-of-seven series yesterday afternoon...
Dover, whose average of 17 points per game was tops for the Crimson this winter, was also honorable mention in the Ivy League. His highest point production was 38 in an 81-78 loss to Springfield...
Russia opened the game in 1945 by infiltrating the secret-police forces of Eastern European countries with double agents who were used to murder or blackmail local anti-Communist politicians. The CIA was not founded until 1947, but the U.S. fought back by employing the spy system of defeated Germany, directed by General Reinhard Gehlen. An aristocratic non-Nazi who had directed Eastern-front espionage for Hitler, Gehlen knew early that Germany would lose. Sensing that the cold war would soon develop, he maintained his network of agents in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Grisly as the idea...
Assassination also became part of the game. Russian exile groups in West Germany, particularly the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), worked actively to overthrow the Soviet government. To stop them, a Russian KGB spy named Bogdan Stashinsky was sent to murder Ukrainian Exile Leader Stepan Bandera and Lev Rebet, the editor of an anti-Soviet newspaper. Using a cyanide pistol, Stashinsky was successful in both cases. Hired killers are not among the world's most attractive people. Yet Stashinsky emerges as a tragic figure. A brilliant young scholar, he was blackmailed into murder by the KGB. Later, driven...
...unravel this skein of spies and spying, Hagen interviewed many of his prin-cioals-including General Gehlen and Otto John-collecting much personal information never before known. His book brings the story of cold war espionage up to date. But the struggle goes on. No end game is yet in sight. Meanwhile, The Secret War for Europe makes an absorbing spy watcher's guide and rule book for espionage-chess...