Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week reports were circulating in Russia that Roy Medvedev had left his job at the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences in Moscow after the KGB (the Soviet secret police) had searched his apartment, confiscated his private papers, and issued a summons for him to appear for questioning-which he refused to obey. The police raid had the unintended effect of focusing public attention in the West on a major new work by Medvedev. Among the papers that were seized by the KGB agents was a 1,500-page typescript of the first comprehensive study of the Stalin era ever...
...rate KGB agents are flowing back to the motherland, Moscow's perennial housing shortage may soon become critical. Last month Oleg Lyalin, a member of the Soviet trade mission in London, exposed the espionage activities that sent 105 Russian officials scurrying home from Britain. Last week Anatole Chebotarev, a reputed friend of Lyalin's and a member of the Soviet trade mission in Brussels, who had been missing for five days, surfaced in England. He gave Western intelligence services a complete list of KGB and GRU (special military espionage) agents operating out of Brussels. NATO circles have reportedly...
Rousing Fiddler. In addition to the 70 accused KGB agents on board the Baltika were 50 non-Russians who had previously booked passage to Leningrad. But there were also 177 empty berths-reserved by the Soviet embassy in London at an average cost of $108 to make sure that no enterprising journalists suddenly decided to make the trip. As the spy ship slipped away, loaded with last-minute purchases of cigarettes, sweaters and Scotch, its loudspeaker burst forth with the rousing number If I Were a Rich Man from Fiddler on the Roof...
...York Times quoted U.S. "security experts" as saying that Vladimir P. Pavlichenko, 48, director of external relations in the United Nations Office of Public Information, was a veteran KGB man whose special assignment is to cultivate U.S. scientists. Pavlichenko called the story "slanderous and false." Though his $27,000-a-year job was renewed last week, there was speculation that he would eventually return to Moscow on one pretext or another...
Western journalists on assignment to Eastern Europe often operate under a double handicap. Because they are inquisitive by trade, they are usually assumed to be agents working for the CIA. Or, equally bothersome, they are harassed by KGB agents who try to pump them for information. Two years ago, TIME Washington Correspondent William Mader came across an unusually inept operative while he was in Prague. As Mader recounts...