Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parliamentary pyrotechnics, a well-muscled representative from Moscow stepped onto the podium. For days, the Palace of Congresses had echoed with a litany of the sins of past regimes. But here was a man, apparently in full possession of his senses, delivering a passionate condemnation of the once unassailable KGB...
Deputy Uri Vlasov, a 1960 Olympics gold-medal weight lifter, blistered the KGB as "that most secret and conspiratorial of all state institutions." Vlasov should know: in 1953 the Committee for State Security hauled off his father, a diplomat, and the man was never seen again. Make the KGB's budget public and give the Congress the right to appoint its head, urged Vlasov. Move the agency to modest offices in Moscow's suburbs. Turn its forbidding headquarters at Dzerzhinsky Square into a library. "The bloody history of the main building is too unforgettable," he said. "This is where...
...extensive postwar literature of espionage and double agentry, fact and fiction tend to blur. Was Magnus Pym the name of John le Carre's perfect spy? Or was it Guy Burgess? Pym and Burgess, Donald Maclean and Toby Esterhase -- characters from the shadow world of MI6 and the KGB -- seem equally real, equally fanciful...
...Soviets amply rewarded Philby for his services: a lavish apartment (by Moscow standards), chauffeurs, a plummy desk job at KGB headquarters. Yet the only perk he really cared for, Knightley notes, was access to artifacts of his homeland: pipes from Jermyn Street, books (he liked Dick Francis' mysteries), magazines, the Times of London (whose daily crossword puzzle he regularly solved in 15 minutes...
Givi G. Gumbaridze, who has been Georgia's KGB chief for two months, was elected to replace Patiashvili. Gumbaridze, 45, previously served as party leader in Tbilisi, Georgia's capital city of 1.2 million people...