Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could wreck the economies of some republics. And in Moscow, Communist conservatives have seized on the Russians' plight to justify a crackdown on the nationalist movements. News reports in the capital deliver a crude subtext: ethnic Russians are the victims of nationalist extremists. Politburo members like Victor Chebrikov, former KGB chief, thunder that those whipping up ethnic strife "should not go unpunished, no matter what flags they raise and what brightly colored national costumes they wear...
...Union in 1963 is still being retold in books and movies. Three of his fellow spies in England -- Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and Anthony Blunt -- were also unmasked. But there has long been suspicion that there was a fifth man and much speculation about his identity. Last week the KGB offered confirmation of sorts. After a Moscow screening of a propaganda film on the Soviet intelligence service, British correspondent Rupert Cornwell buttonholed Yuri Modin, who had been the KGB's controller for the Philby network, and asked the fifth-man question. "Yes, there was," replied Modin, then declined to provide...
...once, Clancy does not paint the Soviets as the bad guys, except perhaps for one of the drug kingpin's assistants who is also a former KGB agent. And Clancy, who made no bones about his homophobia in an interview last year with Newsweek, at least took a step in the right direction this time, making a gay member of congress--a la Barney Frank--a small but important hero in his story...
Gorbachev continued to fill the ruling body with his own men, elevating the new KGB chief, Vladimir Kryuchkov, and the head of economic planning, Yuri Maslyukov, to full membership...
Chebrikov had moved from KGB chief last September to a new party position overseeing legal affairs. Nikonov had described himself this year as a deputy to Yegor K. Ligachev on party agricultural policy, and appeared to serve no clear function on the Politburo...