Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pretty naive and banal," and the purpose of the film is to "arouse a psychosis against the Soviet Union in the Western countries -the evil atmosphere of days long since gone." The offending movie: Telefon, a U.S. spy flick now being filmed in Helsinki. Cast as a brainy KGB agent who goes to the U.S. on a mission, Charles Bronson is denounced by Izvestia as "the stereotype immutable hero of thriller-type movies." Is Bronson crushed? Nyet. "They must like that," he says. "I understand I'm very popular in Russia...
...burly figure stealthily flipped a fat manila envelope, wrapped in a sheet of plastic, into the parking lot of the Soviet embassy's seven-story residence in northwest Washington. The packet was addressed FOR THE RESIDENT-EYES ONLY, meaning, in spook jargon, that it was intended for the KGB spymaster who lived in the apartment building. Suspecting that it was a letter bomb planted by anti-Soviet Jewish activists, a Soviet watchman summoned U.S. officials, who in turn called in U.S. Army demolition experts...
...officials and informants, and the locations of CIA "safe houses" and training sites. An unsigned note described the documents as merely a sampler. For $200,000, the Soviets would get additional secret papers and the names of CIA agents who might be vulnerable to seduction by the KGB. The note instructed the Soviets to make two payoffs-$3,000 to be dropped off at 2 p.m. the next day beside a fire hydrant in an affluent neighborhood of Bethesda, Md., and a second payoff of $197,000 at the same place a few hours later...
...sipping Swiss mineral water, Bukovsky recounted the astonishing tale of his release from jail and his deportation. On a Friday two weeks ago, he had been told by prison authorities in Vladimir to get his things together and prepare to change cells. He was then put in a small KGB (secret police) van and whisked to another jail in Moscow. A ranking official of the KGB personally accompanied the handcuffed prisoner to Zurich on a chartered Aeroflot jet. Once the plane was no longer flying over Soviet territory the official unlocked the cuffs and ex plained that Bukovsky would...
Although Bukovsky himself was never tortured, he told of prisoners being beaten. "The worst thing was boredom," Bukovsky said. In the lunatic asylum run by the KGB, where he was confined from 1963 to 1965, Bukovsky had to endure countless hours of propaganda "reindoctrination," while the police doctors argued about whether his dissident views qualified him as a schizophrenic or a psychopath. In the asylum he found some textbooks for the study of English. "You know," he confided, "English grammar is funny-a bit mad to us Russians-so why not study it in a prison madhouse...