Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lonetree, authorities said, had an affair with a female KGB agent who was reportedly working as a translator at the embassy. The woman took him home a number of times, introducing him to her "Uncle Sasha," who was actually a KGB agent. The translator had been among 260 Soviets employed by the U.S. embassy in Moscow and the consulate in Leningrad until the Kremlin pulled them out last October to protest Washington's expulsion of 80 Soviet diplomats...
...security guard at the U.S. embassy in Moscow that in November 1985 he was detached for special duty at the Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Geneva. Last week Lonetree sat in a brig at the Marine base at Quantico, Va., suspected by his superiors of helping the Soviet KGB filch classified U.S. documents from diplomatic offices in Moscow and Vienna...
Last week the case came to a startling and unprecedented conclusion. The KGB official who had engineered Berkhin's arrest was fired, and there were warnings that more dismissals were in the offing. Even more surprising was the way the firing was announced: on the front page of Pravda. In a statement signed by KGB Chief Viktor Chebrikov, the offending officer was castigated as a discredit to his profession. Chebrikov pledged to take measures to "ensure the strict observance of law" by state security forces...
Both the admission of misconduct and the public disclosure of punitive action against a ranking KGB officer were virtually unheard-of events. They seemed to indicate that even the elite secret police will not be immune to Mikhail Gorbachev's calls for glasnost, a program of openness aimed at exposing shortcomings and abuses of power in Soviet life. Some analysts speculate that the Kremlin is determined to bring the KGB under control. It will undoubtedly take time, and more disciplinary actions, before KGB agents lose their enthusiasm for trampling on the civil rights of Soviet citizens. But the incident...
...fairest of them all? Knightley's candidate is Kim Philby, the KGB's mole in British intelligence who set up the SIS's anti-Soviet division, coordinated activities with the CIA and so could convey details of the West's counterspy activity to the Kremlin. Philby, exposed by a KGB blunder, was able to escape to Moscow but not before he came within a hair of becoming "C," the chief of the SIS and, according to Knightley, "the most accomplished spy ever...