Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...between East and West to move back and forth, and counterspies have reacted accordingly. Ever since a Soviet-American student exchange program was established in 1958, the FBI, which is responsible for counterespionage in the U.S., has been on the lookout for agents of the Soviet secret police, or KGB, operating undercover as visiting students and scholars...
...make up for its shortcomings, Moscow sometimes turns abroad for ideas and does not always use ethical methods to get them. Development of the Ryad series of computers began when KGB agents evidently spirited away an IBM 360 from West Germany in the late 1960s. In The Netherlands, where Moscow has set up a computer center, the Dutch government last year expelled the Soviet director on espionage charges. Suspicion about him arose after a Dutch employee at the center reported having been given a $4,500 bonus for explaining to the Russians how the Dutch police use their computer...
...master stroke was to place Agent Günter Guillaume at the right hand of then Chancellor Willy Brandt. A personal aide of Brandt's for four years, Guillaume handed over a wide range of state secrets to Mischa-and, by extension, to Mischa's KGB bosses -until his arrest...
...went to Austria in 1975, ostensibly on a skiing vacation, he stopped off in Vienna for a prearranged meeting with two Soviet secret policemen who thought Shadrin was their agent. While his wife waited in their luxurious suite in the Hotel Bristol, Shadrin kept a rendezvous with the two KGB officers on the steps of a Vienna church. He vanished. High-level U.S. intelligence officials in Washington believe Shadrin was kidnaped and is probably in a Soviet prison or dead. Some U.S. agents suspect he may have been a KGB plant in the first place...
...whisper, don't stare intently at furniture, pictures and other objects." For the loquacious, he counsels "don't tell old stories, jokes and anecdotes"-and for the insecure, "don't be disappointed if you think you are being ignored." One dictum might be intended for KGB operatives doing cover duty in the diplomatic corps: On visits to others' homes, the diplomat "should not enter the room without knocking...