Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Along with Gorbachev, the Politburo members who received the widest support were Nikolai N. Slyunkov, chief of the party's commission on social and economic policy, with 19 votes opposed, and former KGB chief Viktor M. Chebrikov, with 13 opposed...
...German television network reported that authorities believe the West German hackers were recruited by the Soviet KGB in 1985 and "were paid with cash and drugs and were later forced to provide the codes and passwords to the Soviets...
Arriving like an invasion force, foreign media magnates have taken over billions of dollars' worth of U.S. properties ranging from RCA Records to Scientific American magazine. So far, their intentions have appeared to be strictly business. But what if a foreign communications kingpin were secretly working for the KGB as part of a diabolical scheme to influence American public opinion? And what if this media mole were to get his claws on the most ^ powerful U.S. communications company? That is the provocative premise of Agent of Influence (Putnam; 416 pages), an intriguing merger mystery by David Aaron, author...
...saddled with so many embarrassments? Part of the answer is that, ethics aside, friendship and political alliances go a long way with Bush -- and with the rest of Washington. If Tower does not show up in public drunk, with an Iranian arms merchant on one arm and a female KGB officer on the other, he may make...
...Moscow Station, investigative reporter Ronald Kessler depicts an incredible lack of security at the U.S. embassy. Seductive KGB women used their embassy jobs to lure lonely Marines into espionage. But, says Kessler, the Navy bungled its probe, only one Marine was convicted of spying, and embarrassed U.S. agencies tried to play down the damage. In fact, he claims, there is solid evidence that Soviet agents had been admitted to the inner code rooms and stole some of America's most sensitive secrets...