Word: kgb
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...Hebrew first name and simplified the English spelling of his surname) was also a mathematician, a computer scientist and a chess whiz who had devised a computer program for playing the end game. When he was arrested in 1977, he sought to use the same logic to defeat his KGB opponents, who were preparing to try him as an anti-Soviet agitator...
Sharansky's game plan, which he first sketched out on a piece of prison toilet paper, had three objectives: not to cooperate with the KGB; to penetrate and foil its methods; and to expose its cruelty and lies to the outside world. He never wavered. Armed with his intelligence, his sense of moral rightness and his innocence of the charges, he confounded a team of 17 KGB investigators who had fabricated a case of high treason against him. Conducting his own defense, he turned his trial into a shambles as he demonstrated the falseness of the evidence. When his thundering...
That appeal apparently had little effect, and later in the day Reagan got a lesson in U.S. and Soviet cultural differences. When he and Nancy went for an unscheduled walk around the Arbat, a quaint Moscow shopping mall, the friendly but thrusting crowds alarmed the KGB. Guards appeared out of nowhere to form a flying wedge around the Reagans and roughed up everyone from journalists to children. "It's still a police state," the President was heard to mutter. That night Reagan was expected to visit the Moscow apartment of Yuri and Tanya Zieman, refuseniks who have been denied permission...
Soviet authorities were peeved by Reagan's invitation to the refuseniks. Said Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Petrovsky: "This is hardly aimed at improving mutual understanding between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R." In Leningrad two dissidents who had been invited to Spaso House were questioned by the KGB until their train left for Moscow...
There were some hardships for which the Zeimans could not prepare Vera. A few years ago, Vera was with her parents when they were seized by the KGB and held for questioning about their contacts with foreigners. "I was so scared I couldn't tie my shoelaces," Vera remembers. For weeks afterward, she screamed in her sleep at night...