Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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REZIDENT: Soviet term for a chief KGB officer, the equivalent of a CIA station chief, in a Soviet embassy abroad. His headquarters is the rezidentura...
...KGB exploits are so successful. There was, for example, the case last March involving Mexican students sent through Moscow to North Korea for guerrilla training. But the war goes on in every part of the globe. Items...
...September 1969, KGB agents in Beirut tried to steal a French-built Mirage 111-E fighter from the Lebanese air force to test against Soviet MIGs. They offered a young Lebanese fighter pilot $2,000,000 to fly his plane to Baku in the Soviet Union. The officer reported the offer to his superiors, and the two Russians, caught red-handed with a $200,000 down-payment check, were wounded in a shootout with Lebanese police and were quickly deported...
...scathingly described a prison research institute run by Soviet intelligence where American magazines that were sold to anyone in the U.S. "were here numbered, bound with string, classified and sealed up in fireproof safes, out of reach of American spies." The result, for the CIA as well as the KGB, is an astonishing amount of make-work and the accumulation of vast amounts of material that simply cannot be digested?even with computers reminiscent of Len Deighton's The Billion Dollar Brain constantly whirring...
FLAPS WELL DOWN: An old phrase still used in Britain, describing an agent who is worried about his future and lying low. Applicable to KGB agents in Britain today...