Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaves the hospital, she may be sent home to Siberia, to a psychiatric hospital for observation and questioning, or possibly to jail. "I don't think that I want to disgrace our friends," she wrote in a letter. "I believe that soon I will stand before the KGB. Then [my fate] will be their business...
DIED. Semyon Tsvigun, 64, first deputy chairman of the KGB and its highest ranking career officer. In 42 years with the Soviet security and intelligence forces, Tsvigun rose from provincial postings to the capital, where he was promoted to full general in 1978, and full member of the Central Committee in 1981. Tsvigun occasionally wrote for ideological journals, reflecting the official view that all dissents from official dogma were threats to state security and were "intrigues of imperialist intelligence...
Finally, for no good reason at all, Fromson tacks on a little adventure involving KGB spies and American counter-intelligence. Again, the episode may be grounded in truth, but the amateurish way in which the author presents it only distracts the reader from the more sober, believable sections of the book...
...threat of Soviet force. The leaders and citizens of other lands would not feel quite so haunted by the specter of Communism if they were not concerned about Soviet troops over the border, or missiles over the horizon, or secret stockpiles of Kalashnikov automatic rifles and cadres of KGB agents...
...KGB that passed word of the Kremlin's decision to Alexeyeva that she could go to the U.S., thus halting Sakharov's fast. Alexeyeva, who married Semyonov by proxy last June, had been previously denied a visa to leave for the U.S. On Saturday, Alexeyeva boarded a train to visit the Sakharovs in the industrial city of Gorky, where the couple has been living in exile for the past 23 months...