Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...branch of the Soviet government has been so secretive -- and so dreaded -- as the Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security), better known as the KGB. The world's largest spy and state-security machine, the KGB employs more than 500,000 people, including thousands of agents abroad. The agency has long been the stuff of shadowy legend, its name synonymous with terror and its doors shut tightly to the public...
...they have been opened a crack, as attested by the photos on these pages, obtained by TIME. In a remarkable display of glasnost, the Moscow newspaper Nedelya last week published the pictures in a three-page report that gave many Soviet citizens their first look inside the forbidding KGB building on Moscow's Dzerzhinsky Square. Nedelya Editor in Chief Vitali Syrokomsky and photographer Viktor Akhlomov toured the KGB's headquarters, a KGB officers' academy and the notorious Lefortovo prison, where Natan Sharansky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and many lesser-known dissidents have been detained. What Syrokomsky and Akhlomov saw, of course...
Once unequal partners, then fierce and feuding competitors, the leviathans of the Communist world have finally attained a measure of mutual respect. -- How the U.S. can profit from the new detente. -- In Paraguay, longtime dictator Alfredo Stroessner is toppled. -- Inside the KGB: rare photos of the supersecretive Soviet security agency at work...
...sloppy. In deference to U. S.-Soviet glasnost relations, the writers have deftly swayed away from any direct attacks on the Russian government. Porizkova's Nina does not come from the Soviet Union, but is rather supposed to be a native of Romania. But the temptation of using the KGB as an obvious foil to the good American guys seems to have been irresistible, and so we see it re-enacted again. Once more, in the spirit of James Bond and other spy thrillers, we see a plot that rests on the virtues of an East-West conflict...
...warheads. They gave their regards to Broadway and Bloomingdale's and proved that all it takes to keep traffic moving in New York is the near imposition of martial law: 6,600 of the city's finest, plus the peacekeeping forces of the U.N., the FBI, the FAA, the KGB, the Secret Service and the Coast Guard. Like tourists in for the holidays, the Soviet Union's First Couple took in all the right places, both high (the World Trade Center's 107th-floor observation deck) and low (Times Square's movie district...