Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clark had just finished interviewing for this week's cover story. Says Clark: "The real reason for Krimsky's expulsion was his coverage of the dissidents." That explains why reporting on men like Sakharov is such a complex and at times hazardous affair. Clark adds: "Correspondents and KGB agents are well known to one another, for every dissident event is well covered by both." Eastern Europe Correspondent David Aikman notes that U.S. journalists there are not only under perpetual surveillance, but in the past few weeks have suffered harassment and even physical abuse unprecedented since the invasion...
GOING PUBLIC. "The idea of intelligence in the sunshine, that people should know everything about intelligence is nutty," says Bush. But he acknowledges that a certain price has to be paid for living in a free society. The Soviet KGB has a much easier time operating in the U.S. than the CIA does in Russia. "But I don't think you can do anything about it. To inhibit the dissemination of information would stir up a fire storm-and deservedly...
Whenever a Soviet dissident picks up his telephone, he can be sure that the KGB has either bugged it or disconnected it. So it was last week that in a tiny Moscow apartment, a tall, stooped man of 55 bundled himself into his worn overcoat and ratty fur hat, walked down seven flights of stairs and made his way through a noontime snowstorm to a public phone booth. It was by now a familiar routine for Andrei Sakharov, foremost builder of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize and leader of the Russian human rights movement...
...followed by a more moderate statement of support from Jimmy Carter. The Russians evidently decided that they could not ignore comments that they regarded as provocative, and that seemed to signal a new and tougher approach to Soviet-American relations. As if to test the U.S. resolve, the KGB arrested Dissident Alexander Ginzburg in a telephone booth. Hours later the Kremlin ordered the expulsion of George Krimsky, a Russian-speaking American reporter for the Associated Press who had been zealous in covering dissident activities. In swift retaliation, the U.S. State Department deported a Washington-based Tass correspondent (TIME...
...KGB also raided the apartment of Mykola Rudenko, head of the Helsinki group's Kiev chapter. The agents trashed the contents of Rudenko's flat and stripped his wife naked to humiliate her. Rudenko and Oleska Tykhy, a committee member from the city of Donetsk, were then hauled off to Ukrainian prisons...