Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group was no delegation of politicians from a friendly Muslim country. TIME has learned that it was a team of highly professional, meticulously schooled intelligence agents from the Soviet Union invited to Iran by the ruling Islamic Republic Party (I.R.P.). The agents were the first among several KGB and other Soviet advisory missions that have arrived in Iran since mid-October to help the government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini create an efficient intelligence and security force and strengthen the Islamic Guards, the clergy's private army...
Korchnoi is described even by friends as paranoid. He refuses to drive in his adopted Switzerland because, he says, the KGB would arrange an accident. Since his defection, the Soviets have attempted to boycott every tournament he has entered, except the world championships. Korchnoi's complaint: "Karpov is a little boy. I know of no other player with such poor end-game technique...
Since the last outing, the KGB has seized Sakharov and dispatched him to the city of Gorky, where he has been held incommunicado for the past 20 months. Marchenko has just been sentenced to ten years of hard labor and five of exile for "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." Aksyonov, Voinovich, Kopelev, Orlova and several others have been forced to live abroad. Even the erstwhile hosts have been made unwelcome. Four prominent American publishers were refused visas to the Soviet Union, and Random House Chairman Robert L. Bernstein was the target of an anti-Semitic attack in Literaturnaya Gazeta...
DIED. Yevgeni Kharitonov, 40, Russian poet and playwright; of a heart attack; in Moscow. Last year, with six other Soviet writers, Kharitonov sought to form a literary club and publish an experimental journal; the KGB seized their unpublished manuscripts. Kharitonov once wrote ironically that writers need restrictions because "violating them provides the nerve...
Because of loosely enforced Commerce and State Department regulations, says Young, "only rarely can we catch anyone as calculating as Bell." According to Kenneth Kaiser, an agency counterintelligence supervisor in Chicago, Poland is particularly active in the pirating of corporate data. Says Kaiser: "While the Soviet KGB gets all the press, Polish intelligence is perhaps superior. They, however, could care less about military intelligence; they want economic and scientific secrets. Their objective is to short-circuit development costs and undersell us." And, as the Zacharski case suggests, they are good at finding friends in the right places...