Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Painful Death. By way of background, Colby revealed that the agency in 1952 began a supersecret research program, code-named M.K. Naomi, partly to find countermeasures to chemical and biological weapons that might be used by the Russian KGB. Former CIA Director Richard Helms reported that a KGB agent used poison darts and poison spray to assassinate two Ukrainian liberation leaders in West Germany. The CIA also wanted to find a substitute for the cyanide L-pill, the suicide capsule used in World War II. Cyanide takes up to 15 minutes to work and causes an agonizingly painful death...
...Henke, and Henke's true political allegiance, become matters of increasingly risky perplexity. A hit man (nicely played by Richard Romanus) shows up from Detroit and makes the first of many at tempts on Shaver's life. Before things settle down, the KGB, the CIA and the Mafia all get involved, and all, for their respective reasons, get sore at Shaver. Even his girl friend (Cristina Raines) grows testy. Shaver deals with all the vexations as best he can, with bluff and a little muscle, looking the while as if he just wants to get away on vacation...
...Since his arrest, more than 100 persons are believed to have been interrogated in connection with the case. He is variously rumored to have been involved with a smuggling ring, planned to defect to the West, or to have spied for the French secret service, the CIA or the KGB. Similar tales have reached Polish-born academicians and authors in the U.S. None could be confirmed...
Some friends of mine lost Faith when they found out that the FBI, CIA, IRS, and U.S. Army had more files on people than the KGB. But that's probably because they were on file...
...affair was discovered in 1968 when a CIA source in Moscow reported that KGB officials were jubilant about getting one of their operatives in bed with an FBI agent. To check out the CIA'S report, the FBI broke into the apartment of the woman, a middle-aged waitress, and discovered bureau manuals, documents and reports. Some FBI officials urged prosecution, but J. Edgar Hoover's palace guard of deputies stopped the inquiry to avoid embarrassing the bureau and its boss. The agent was simply allowed to resign. The KGB also appears to have penetrated...