Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quick succession of the 75-year-old Soviet leader last week caught even the most seasoned Kremlin watchers off guard United States analysts differed considerably in interpreting the effects on Soviet behavior of the unexpectedly rapid ascension to power of Yuri Andropov, the former head of the KGB...
Sketchy accounts of the new leader indicate that, to a greater degree than Brezhnev. Andropov is familiar with Western culture, a fact which could make him more receptive to detente Should the U.S. fail to encourage reasoned negotiation, the former KGB head's apparent hostility towards human rights at home could well become a fixture of his regime. Initial U.S. gestures towards the U.S.S.R. may prove critical in helping Andropov's diplomatic posture take shape...
WHEN FORMER KGB CHIEF Yuri Andropov was named Thursday to head the organizing committee for Leonid Brezhnev's funeral, no serious Kremlinologist was surprised. The signs had been pointing that way for three years, ever since a loan Andropov had applied for to buy the apartment next to Brezhnev's had been approved Since then, Andropov's bosses had granted his request for a brand new Volga sedan. And they had even given him a full extra week's paid vacation that his hadn't asked...
...from the annals of contemporary Russian letters. The reasons were not hard to find. In addition to his writing, he had been attempting to challenge Soviet censorship. His anthology of unorthodox Russian writing, Metropol, was denounced in the Soviet press as salacious and subversive. The Soviet secret police, the KGB, began to hound him in an effort to drive him into exile. In 1980, Aksyonov and his wife Maya succumbed to pressure and left the Soviet Union. His citizenship was then taken away by the Supreme Soviet, and the Literary Gazette announced that he had chosen "the path of betrayal...
...been among the principal organizers of the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain. Pro-Western Arab intelligence organizations believe that Modaresi is also head of a so-called Gulf Affairs Section of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and that he has had connections with the Soviet KGB...