Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over the next year they sold thousands of messages, diagrams and computer codes to the resident Soviet agents, including a KGB colonel with steel teeth. The Soviets wound up unwittingly bankrolling Daulton's drug operation, and the pair came to grief only after an unannounced delivery to the embassy to raise cash for a big drug deal. The friends turned against each other at their trials, Christopher saying he had been blackmailed into stealing the secrets by his former friend, Daulton insisting that all along he had been told they were working for the U.S., spreading false information. Judge...
...existence of CIA officers in the embassy would be no surprise. Indeed, intelligence experts were puzzled that the U.S. apparently had so few. The Soviet embassy in Tehran has a far larger complement of KGB operatives. The U.S. reduced its CIA staff in Tehran after the revolution to lessen the chances of antagonizing the new government. In any event, the accepted practice is to expel foreign diplomats suspected of being spies, not put them on trial...
...regulations, you will get either ten strokes of the whip or five electric shocks." Said Curator Ing Pech, 52, an electrical engineer who is one of only four known survivors of the death camp: "Everyone here was accused of working for either the CIA or the Soviet KGB. After I received 50 blows to the head, I confessed. But after eight months, I was freed to work in the prison because I was the only one who could operate the electrical system." Those less fortunate ended up in mass graves. We were taken to one such site on the edge...
...shock to the author of this Essay. He was recruited into the M16 branch of British intelligence during World War II, and operated for 18 months as a spy at Lourengo Marques in Mozambique. His boss at M16 headquarters was Kim Philby-as it turned out-of the KGB. "Intelligence gathering, "the author later observed, "is even more fantasy-prone than news gathering. In the latter, you are often expected to make bricks without straw, but in the former, to grow lemons without a tree. "He thus retired from spying with some relief...
...that in the '30s he was drawn to Marxism and the U.S.S.R. in the light of Chamberlain's appeasement policy, but went on to admit that it was the influence of Burgess that led him to translate this vague sympathy into active service on behalf of the KGB. I cannot, in any case, see Das Kapital as his bedside book...