Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...counter the attacks on his loyalty and integrity by revealing details of official harassment, including secret police threats to murder him and his family. In another statement issued to Western newsmen last week, he disclosed that a Leningrad woman had hanged herself after five days of interrogation by the KGB had forced her to reveal the whereabouts of a hidden Solzhenitsyn manuscript. Police seizure of this unpublished work-a documentary record of Stalinist concentration camps-has greatly alarmed the author because 200 of the prisoners he interviewed for the book are still alive. They are now subject to reprisal...
...Accident." Solzhenitsyn's fear, he made plain in an interview with the Associated Press and Le Monde, is neither metaphorical nor paranoid. "During the winter of 1971-72," he said, "I was warned through several channels that they [the KGB, the Russian secret police] were preparing to kill me in a 'car accident.' But here we have a peculiarity, I would almost say an advantage of our social structure: not a single hair falls or will fall from my head or from the head of members of my family without the knowledge or approval of the KGB...
...declared killed or suddenly mysteriously dead, you can infallibly conclude, with 100% certainty, that I have been killed with the approval of the KGB...
Thus the long-distance teaching began. At least once a week the three have been on the phone to Tel Aviv. The physicists come in loud and clear, with no interruptions from the KGB, which is presumably listening. For this reason, discussions are wholly on science with no politics mixed in. One disadvantage of the strange system, says Israeli Physicist Yosef Imry, is that students will not be able to ask questions of the scientists, "but our staff members will be able to field them." Imry says the scientists are "bursting with thoughts they want to communicate. Sometimes, when they...
...Moscow bureau chief is rarely an easy one. Bureaucracy and secretiveness often combine to make the Soviet Union a journalist's despair. But for John Shaw, Russia simply presents the best sort of reportorial challenge: "The KGB agents who sometimes follow you, the Soviet officials who often want your opinions, the visiting scholars who call with questions, all symbolize in their way the unique position of the foreign correspondent in Moscow," he says...