Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amalric's thesis is so obviously heretical that the question legitimately arises: Why isn't he in prison? A few observers suggest that he is unwittingly being used by the KGB, but it is difficult to imagine why the secret police would want such critical articles to appear in the West. Most probably, he has been left free-so far-because to jail him would give undue publicity to his work...
...which, for the first time, had the ring of legitimate reproach. Andrei Amalric, 31, is no hack, but one of Russia's most promising young writers. In an open letter to Kuznetsov, Amalric criticized his fellow writer not for defecting but for paying the price of being a KGB informer in order to obtain permission to go abroad. By his own admission, Kuznetsov told the KGB "a pure fiction"-that Evgeny Evtushenko, Vasily Aksyonov and other liberal Russian writers were planning to publish "a frightful underground magazine." Though full of remorse for his denunciation, which could have cost...
...speak of freedom, but only of external freedom. You say nothing of inner freedom. To have to struggle against the KGB is a terrible thing, but what, in effect, threatened a Russian writer if, before his first visit abroad, he had refused to collaborate with the KGB? The writer would not have gone abroad but he would have remained an honest man. In refusing to collaborate, he would have lost a part, perhaps a considerable part, of his external freedom, but would have achieved greater inner freedom...
...courteously invited by the KGB to write a general account of the mood of the intelligentsia, and I equally courteously refused, upon which the matter ended. In 1963, I was taken by night to the Lubyanka prison and ordered to write a report against an American diplomat to the effect that he had subjected me, and other Soviet citizens, to malicious ideological brainwashing. I again refused, although they then threatened me with criminal proceedings. In 1965, I refused outright to talk with them, which cost me exile in Siberia. That is why I think I have the personal right...
...KGB investigator, Nikolai Danilov, left his work on the island of Sakhalin and took a job as a legal-aid consultant in a Leningrad law office. He was arrested and confined in a special insane asylum for political offenders, where he is being "treated" with insulin shock...