Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought to be Gorbachev's chief rival, had apparently given up on winning the top job for himself. But at the Politburo session called immediately after Chernenko's death, Romanov reportedly tried a stop- Gorbachev maneuver, nominating Moscow Party Boss Viktor Grishin for General Secretary. By some accounts, however, KGB Chief Viktor Chebrikov hinted that his agency had compiled dossiers on corruption in the Moscow party apparatus that could be highly embarrassing to Grishin. (Chebrikov was then a candidate member of the Politburo; he has since moved up to full membership.) Andrei Gromyko, then Foreign Minister, carried the day with...
...KGB was here!" When that cry, or versions of it, echoed through the U.S. embassy in Moscow last March, horrified security officials reacted swiftly. Certain that two Marine guards had let Soviet agents prowl through the building and plant listening devices, authorities closed the electronically shielded meeting-room "bubble," tore out cryptographic and other communications gear and sent messages to Washington by courier through Frankfurt. Those steps, as well as a global investigation of the Marine guard force, have cost U.S. taxpayers more than $100 million. But last week one senior Marine officer concluded that the alleged penetration...
...turnaround was based on several weeks of intensive interrogation of Marine Sergeant Clayton Lonetree, who was convicted of espionage in August. A military jury found that Lonetree disclosed the names of CIA agents in Moscow after being seduced by a woman working for both the embassy and the KGB. Yet Lonetree vigorously denied having allowed spies into the embassy, and agents of the Naval Investigative Service had no strong evidence to the contrary. Their claims were based on a detailed statement by Corporal Arnold Bracy that he and Lonetree allowed the KGB to enter when the two worked the same...
Goldsmith is fiercely anti-Communist, extravagantly so. "Jimmy believes," says an old friend, "that the KGB is using the global media to destabilize public opinion and spread lies." Goldsmith is just as fiercely critical of the business establishment, which he calls corpocracy. Big companies, he says, are in league with big government and big unions to stifle change and progress. "With the return of the Democrats to power over both houses of Congress," he says, "you are once more suffering the outrages of that triangular alliance...
...lost and North America will cease to be a world power and eventually fall under the yoke of Communism." To Hull, Senate Subcommittee Chairman John Kerry and his colleagues are Communist dupes. "When you castrate our own intelligence service," he says, "politicians such as Kerry are helping the KGB...