Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After weeks of sensational revelations about U.S. guards sneaking Soviet spies into the American embassy in Moscow, the Marine spy case appears to be stalled. As a postponement was announced last week in a pretrial hearing for Corporal Arnold Bracy, who had confessed to helping Sergeant Clayton Lonetree allow KGB agents into the embassy, defense lawyers were crowing that the Navy has no case against the two Marines...
...Gulags are still full and dissidents who are Soviet Jews have a hard time emigrating. Then came the op-ed page experts, asserting that change in the Evil Empire is only a mirage and warning against gullibility, as if the Moscow press corps -- its movements constantly circumscribed by the KGB -- does not know there is a cold...
When Secretary of State George Shultz phoned President Reagan from Moscow last week, he was forced to make his call from a special communications van flown over from the U.S. In the wake of the charges that Marine guards had allowed KGB agents into the embassy, his cables to Washington were dispatched through a communications system that had been elaborately reworked to safeguard their encryption. American security experts took exceptional pains to ensure that the Secretary's sensitive communications were not intercepted by hidden Soviet listening and decoding devices. Although arms-control issues dominated the Secretary's visit...
...their families in a building at 51 Arbat Street, near the center of Moscow. The main character is Sasha Pankratov, a Young Communist League leader at an engineering institute. He is arrested on an obviously false political charge, interrogated by the secret police of the NKVD (predecessor of the KGB) and sentenced to Siberian exile. Some of his friends try to organize a protest petition. A few people sign it, but most find excuses not to. One of them becomes an informer for the NKVD and finally a full-fledged agent. Some of the most vivid scenes in the novel...
...Bears--Toxic Reasons, KGB...