Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...offensive, Smiley assigns Jerry Westerby--dubbed "the honourable schoolboy" for his noble lineage and his bookish manner--to snarl the operations of the Soviet spy network. In usual fashion, Westerby's mission takes him to Hong Kong and Indochina, into the middle of an international narcotics ring and a KGB scheme to subvert a pack of Red Chinese politicos--and unavoidably, into a few bedrooms as well. But somewhere along the way, Westerby begins thinking unsoldierish thoughts, railing not only against the moves of the high-handed CIA "cousins" he runs up against, but also against his own training...
...University during the 1976-77 academic year. Lusis' age made him suspect to the FBI: Wasn't he a little old to be just another schoolboy? the bureau asked itself. Perhaps his studies back in the U.S.S.R. had included microphotography and other spooky skills at a special KGB training center. The bureau placed him under surveillance...
...this point, the FBI field office in Boston turned the case over to bureau headquarters in Washington. James Adams, assistant to lame-duck Director Clarence Kelley, was responsible for the decision to recruit Lusis as an agent or, if it turned out he was already working for the KGB, to "turn" him, through blackmail, into a double agent. Routinely, the agency notified the State Department of its plans...
...Minister Andrei Gromyko in Geneva in May. The U.S.S.R. desk at State argued strenuously that the FBI'S proposed blackmail attempt threatened to jeopardize Soviet-American relations at the worst possible time. The CIA supported State, noting it had nothing in its files to indicate Lusis was a KGB "heavy." But, exercising its license to conduct domestic counterespionage, the FBI decided to go ahead anyway...
While relatively few cases come to light, such incidents are quite common on both sides. Just how common became clear last month, when the U.S. sharply protested a crude attempt by the KGB to blackmail a Polish-born American diplomat, Constantine Warvariv, 53, using prefabricated evidence of wartime collaboration with the Nazis. Some State Department officials, still furious about the Lusis case, suspect the attempted blackmail of Warvariv was a Soviet retaliation for the schoolboy affair. More likely, the two incidents were unrelated, except as twin pieces of evidence that spooks will be spooks, it seems, regardless of the initials...