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...success at home will also work abroad. During the Andropov era, the KGB's foreign directorate moved out of the Dzerzhinsky Square headquarters to a large, modern, half-moon-shaped office building on the Moscow Ring Road. It expanded overseas operations, though it still shares assignments with the GRU (Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravleniye), the Chief Intelligence Directorate of the Soviet military. Many experts consider the KGB to be the world's most effective information-gathering organization. Says a senior intelligence staff member in Congress: "It used to be that you could tell the KGB guys a mile off. They were caricatures...
That, according to Western intelligence sources, is a likely story. They say that at least a dozen of the embassy's officials are members of either the KGB, the Soviet secret police, or the GRU, the Soviet military's intelligence section. Meshcheriakov himself is said to be the KGB station chief; the cultural attache, one Lev Gaganov, station chief for the GRU. Moreover, the weekly Aeroflot flights to Luxembourg, which began last July, were negotiated by a KGB operative who was expelled from France three years ago for industrial espionage...
...Russian officials scurrying home from Britain. Last week Anatole Chebotarev, a reputed friend of Lyalin's and a member of the Soviet trade mission in Brussels, who had been missing for five days, surfaced in England. He gave Western intelligence services a complete list of KGB and GRU (special military espionage) agents operating out of Brussels. NATO circles have reportedly confirmed that Chebotarev and his former co-workers were snooping around NATO in Brussels and the headquarters of SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe) in Casteau, near Mons. It is thought that Soviet espionage activities in Brunssum...
Hating Nikita. Penkovsky was the optimum spy: unlike the mere information gatherers, he had the golden gift of evaluation. As a colonel in the GRU (Russia's military intelligence agency), he not only had access to top defense information but was also trained by no less a lot of key figures than Top Spy Ivan Serov and Missile Boss Sergei Varentsov to spot what was most valuable in the Soviet military treasure chest. Penkovsky's equivalent in U.S. circles, say his U.S. editors, would have been "a vice president of the Rand Corp., a graduate of West Point...