Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviets allowed a U.S. newsman to leave after a six-day ordeal that illustrated how seriously the Russians are taking their pledge at Helsinki to "increase the opportunities for journalists to communicate personally with their sources." In an action that was unprecedented since the Stalin era, the KGB forced Los Angeles Times Correspondent Robert Toth to undergo long sessions of hostile and often threatening interrogation in Moscow's dread Lefortovo prison...
Toth had apparently been tricked into a street-corner meeting with a Russian scientist who insisted on handing him an article he claimed was on parapsychology and telepathy. Five KGB officers pounced on Toth and accused him of collecting information of a "political and military nature." Toth, who has made use of dissident sources for articles on Soviet science during his three-year stay in Moscow, was later interrogated about gathering information from Anatoli Shcharansky, an imprisoned Soviet human rights activist who has reportedly been charged with treason. This was clearly a warning to both foreign correspondents and dissidents that...
...friends" or "across the river" or, more openly, "the agency" or "the company." When the CIA's $46 million headquarters opened along George Washington Memorial Parkway in suburban Langley, Va., in 1961, the deceptive highway sign said only BPR, for Bureau of Public Roads. Even Soviet KGB agents laughed at that. Finally the sign was changed to read: CIA. Now candor has gone further. For the first time, a photographer-from TIME-has been allowed to take some pictures of the people and operations inside the pickle factory. Guided public tours of Langley may soon be held, if only...
...proviso of the Brezhnev constitution makes a mockery of the flowery guarantees of individual liberties. It reads: "Exercise by citizens of rights and freedoms must not injure the interests of society and the state, and the rights of other citizens." Obviously, this statement gives legal sanction for the KGB to proceed, without having to manufacture pretexts, against dissidents exercising the right of free speech, assembly or religion...
Ironically, Norway arrested and tried a woman for espionage in 1965, after a KGB defector had told how Soviet intelligence in the 1950s secured information from "a female employee [in the Moscow embassy] who enjoyed Russian male companionship." But the authorities picked up the wrong woman -one Ingeborg Lygren-and had to pay her $5,700 in false-arrest damages, while Gunvor Haavik continued her career...