Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trying to fool the KGB, the U.S. may have fooled itself...
...mystery that still haunts U.S. intelligence officials is the disappearance of Double Agent Nicholas Shadrin while on assignment in Vienna more than two years ago. Did he fall into a KGB trap? Or was he betrayed by U.S. intelligence officials...
...Shadrin was approached by KGB operatives. At the request of American officials, he signed up as a Soviet agent and began feeding his KGB spymasters FBI-supplied information about U.S. intelligence methods, much of it harmless but true to gain the KGB's confidence, and some of it false and misleading...
Intelligence and Communication. Effective counterinsurgency is based on good intelligence. Unfortunately, police have found it difficult to infiltrate terrorist cells, partly because new recruits may be forced to commit criminal acts as proof of their zeal. "They are more conspiratorial than KGB agents," says an official in Hamburg. Nonetheless, terrorism can still be foiled by innovative measures. West Germany, for instance, has developed a new system, known as Zielfahndung (target search): teams of police officers select groups of suspects from computer rosters and follow them to learn habits, weaknesses, friends and hangouts, to the point that they can almost predict...
...defect. TIME has learned that for two years he has been secretly talking to U.S. intelligence officers. In recent weeks he has offered to explain which American agency-presumably either the CIA or the FBI-had been deluded by Soviet agents who fed them "disinformation" prepared by the KGB. According to one source, Shevchenko's price for this interesting secret is about $100,000 a year. If the U.S. should reject his terms, Shevchenko has the alternative of giving similar information to five other nations whose secret services have been in touch with him. "He has put himself...