Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union an estimated $4.7 billion of lost production that will be missed as the bitter winter nears. That some hard-liners would like to crack down on the internal unrest was demonstrated last week, when thousands of people held a candlelight vigil outside the Moscow headquarters of the KGB to mourn the victims of Joseph Stalin. When a few started a march toward Pushkin Square, riot police charged the demonstrators, knocking scores to the ground...
...deceit and deception. In the real world of counterespionage, the FBI is taking a much more candid approach. This month it began running an unusual help-wanted ad in a Russian-language newspaper in New York City to make a very public plea: anyone having "direct knowledge of KGB methods or operations" should call or write the nearest FBI office. The ad provides telephone numbers, including that of a counterintelligence section conveniently manned by Russian-speaking agents...
...Soviet citizens who have immigrated to the U.S. since 1975, many of whom live in the New York area. The purpose of the ads, says FBI spokesman Milt Ahlerich, is the "identification of hostile intelligence activities." That includes the detection of approaches made to Soviet emigres by KGB agents. But couldn't the callers deliberately feed disinformation to the FBI? "That could happen," concedes Ahlerich. "We're prepared to address the problem." Despite the FBI's new glasnost, Ahlerich would not even hint at what respondents to the ad have been telling the bureau...
Gorbachev used the close of the Central Committee plenum to purge one- quarter of the twelve voting members of the Politburo. He ousted three aging conservatives: Ukrainian party chief Vladimir Shcherbitsky, 71; former KGB chairman Viktor Chebrikov, 66; and agriculture specialist Viktor Nikonov, 60. Gorbachev's main nemesis, Yegor Ligachev, 68, stays on, but Western diplomats believe it suits the President to have a significant figure to his right as a counterweight to Boris Yeltsin on his left so he can bill himself as a middle-of-the-roader. Gorbachev promoted new KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov, 65, and chief economic...
...Brits' blase attitude was perhaps understandable. The revelation came after the screening of a KGB film that went to absurd lengths to present its intelligence agents as humane, sensitive blokes with a fondness for cooking and poetry...