Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that in the Soviet Union, abuses of human rights are not isolated incidents. There are day-to-day harassment, searches, interrogations, interference with phones, psychological confinement, separation of families, inhuman treatment of prisoners. Often the regime is purposely inconsistent creating an atmosphere of suspicion and paranoia as the KGB arrests those not directly involved the movement as well as the leaders to keep all off balance...
...State Edmund Muskie who advised against resumption of support after the murder of the nuns--makes all too possible this dangerous level of ignorance. But when members of Congress, including Massachussetts' Barney Frank, and vocal solidarity organizations were calling for change in policy toward El Salvador, would it take KGB agents to articulate it? More likely than ignorance, the government's choreography was carefully planned. In its farewell ballet, however, the Carter administration left hanging questions that will, no doubt, haunt the Reagan administration...
...enough spy satellites. Its analysis has often proved faulty, most notably in Iran. Once grandiose covert operations are now run on a shoestring. Counterintelligence has been reduced to the point where many U.S. experts fear it is not adequate to cope with the CIA's principal adversary, the KGB, which is more active than ever...
Although Kameny dismisses the idea that homosexuals are especially susceptible to blackmail, many intelligence experts disagree. Says Cord Meyer, former CIA assistant deputy director for operations: "The Soviets specialize in homosexual cases. They assign KGB agents who are homosexuals themselves to entrap our agents." Another U.S. expert cites the case of a homosexual British clerk with the naval attaché's office in Moscow in the mid '50s, William Vassall, who passed Admiralty secrets to the Soviets...
...dictionary eventually led to Uspensky's flight from Russia. His involvement in the dissident movement was accompanied by an ever-increasing danger--to both himself and his work. The KGB summoned Uspensky as an eyewitness when his friends were arrested, bugged his flat and searched his apartment, going through his card file and scattering his notes. A month before Uspensky left the Soviet Union, a group of thugs attacked him. "They were apparently drunk hoodlums, but I could tell they were working for the KGB," Uspensky says, explaining, "They were too well informed, They called me an anti-Soviet...