Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...went off all over Washington last March when former Marine guards at the U.S. embassy in Moscow were charged with espionage. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger proclaimed the case "quite comparable to Iran's actions in seizing our embassy in Tehran." The Reagan Administration, believing that the Marines had allowed KGB agents to plant miniaturized listening devices in the embassy, cut off electronic communications with it and undertook a $100 million program to replace security and communications equipment in Moscow and elsewhere. It seemed that the two key defendants, Sergeant Clayton Lonetree and Corporal Arnold Bracy, who were said to have...
...evidence. Indeed, no Soviet bug has yet been found anywhere in the current embassy, and there is growing concern that the military may have either blown the investigation or blown it out of proportion or both. Says a ranking U.S. diplomat familiar with the case: "The charge that KGB agents were being led around the embassy has never been proved. There's never been any evidence that the embassy was compromised in any way, at least in connection with Bracy's and Lonetree's associations with Soviet women...
Helms and the others on the Laird commission did their investigation of what went wrong with security in the old embassy. Then Helms indulged himself just a bit: he made his way to the old KGB building where the enemy had plotted against him. He stood out front, unknown, unchallenged...
...wanted a picture of himself below the giant statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the man who started the Cheka, progenitor of the KGB. The statue stands in a circle in front of the building. Helms tried to make his way across the congested street but could not. The policeman refused to halt the rushing traffic. Helms stopped, chuckled and went off -- just as George Smiley would have done...
...acquittal raises questions about an individual' s right to self- defense, about street crime and racism. -- The President prepares for battle as Congress moves toward a tax increase. -- A retired CIA director stops by KGB headquarters on a trip to Moscow. -- Once again Oliver North refuses to testify. -- The Administration is accused of using the Saudis to fund Angolan rebels...