Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...luck, although it came too late for inclusion in this book, would be that the Falkland Islands war gave he British an opportunity to sort out their modern weapons and bucked up their national courage.) Had the Soviets delayed their attack for a year or two, as KGB intelligence reports recommended, the activities of European disarmers, and the foreign policy blunders of the "abrasive" Republican Administration in the U.S., might have wrecked the unity of NATO. Had the last-toss nuclear gamble of the Politburo struck at New York and London instead of a single English manufacturing city, worldwide incineration...
...some private experts now view Soviet and Eastern bloc industrial spies as alarming threats, particularly so in California, the nerve center of U.S. defense, aerospace and electronics research. Intelligence sources estimate that more than 30 of the 52 diplomats in the San Francisco Soviet consulate are members of the KGB, the Soviet espionage agency. Says Senator William Roth of Delaware: "There is no doubt that the Soviets have undertaken a massive, well-financed, expertly coordinated program to systematically acquire as much of our high technology as they can steal, purchase through middlemen, or otherwise appropriate." Declares Los Angeles FBI Chief...
...Force Base near Gweru and destroyed or severely damaged 13 aircraft, about 25% of Zimbabwe's combat force. The government has detained six whites and five blacks who were linked to Nkomo for questioning about the incident. Last March, two former officers in Nkomo's Zipra forces-KGB-trained Dumiso Dubengwa, who served as intelligence chief, and ex-Deputy Commander Lookout Masuku-were arrested after Mugabe's men discovered large caches of arms and ammunition on property owned by Nkomo's ZAPU. About 1,200 onetime Zipra soldiers have deserted the nation's army, undermining...
...State Department offered a backhanded compliment of sorts to agents of the KGB last week. "The Soviets are becoming more sophisticated," said an official commenting on the State Department's release of six documents that it claimed were Soviet forgeries. The department offered no proof, only the observation that the fakes fit a pattern of Soviet mischief-making in the past. The documents, which included letters that were purportedly signed by President Reagan and other high Administration officials, seemed designed to embarrass the U.S. and create friction with its allies. As it turned out, the forgeries were not very...
...Spain's King Juan Carlos last Oct. 23 and ostensibly signed by Reagan; it urged Juan Carlos to crack down on leftists and join NATO (which Spain did in May 1982). The letter was not sent to the King but to Spanish journalists, who ignored it. The KGB allegedly circulated the letter again in November. This time several Spanish newspapers exposed it as a fake...