Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of the same name (meaning openness or public disclosure), has survived and expanded. Two weeks ago, the second edition of the magazine, now up to 184 pages, was distributed. Among the articles: details of new emigration rules and recent actions by the KGB -- subjects barely covered by the official press. Whether the Vechernaya Moskva article was intended as an official warning is unknown. What is certain is that only two years ago Grigoryants would have been bundled off to a labor camp. Instead, like the editors of the country's 8,500 approved...
...Soviets, and disputed the validity of the two sworn confessions he had given investigators last December. Defense Lawyer William Kunstler argued that the Marine guard was guilty of nothing more than falling in love with a Soviet translator at the embassy. Lonetree, said Kunstler, had given the KGB useless documents in a fumbled attempt to be a free-lance double agent. Retorted Prosecuting Attorney Major David Beck: "To become a double agent, you must first become...
Lonetree's conviction was the first in the shrinking Marine spy scandal; despite earlier claims, the military never produced evidence that Lonetree or other Marine guards allowed KGB agents inside the Moscow embassy. The Navy had earlier dropped similar accusations of espionage against Lonetree's fellow guard, Corporal Arnold Bracy. Two other Marines await courts-martial on lesser charges...
...smoldering ashes of two-decades-old news in David Quammen's The Soul of Viktor Tronko (Doubleday; 350 pages; $17.95). The story is built on three staples of spy fiction: the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald spent time in the Soviet Union and must have had contact with the KGB; the inability of the CIA, whenever confronted with a Soviet defector, to know whether he is a font of information or a plant aimed at disinformation; and the too often paralyzing fear among senior spooks that a highly placed "mole" has compromised everything. Quammen traverses this established terrain with skill...
Demjanjuk's defense has not been helped by constant squabbling among his U.S. and Israeli lawyers. Nor have their tactics impressed the court. When Israeli Defense Attorney Yoram Sheftel argued that his client was the victim of a KGB conspiracy, he was interrupted by Judge Dalia Dorner. Said she: "All that I can say to you is that if this is your line of defense, then you really have a very, very severe problem...