Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...straight swap of Zakharov for Daniloff. Washington appeared to be conceding that the cases should be treated as equivalent, despite its repeated thunders that Zakharov is a real spy arrested in the act of trying to buy classified documents while Daniloff is the innocent victim of a crude KGB frame-up that began when a Soviet acquaintance thrust a package of documents into his hands in Moscow...
Daniloff was ending a five-year stint as Moscow bureau chief for U.S. News & World Report when KGB agents arrested him on August 30, after he allegedly received an envelope containing Soviet secrets...
...unwritten rules of espionage. Zakharov was an irritant to U.S. counterintelligence agents because current spying etiquette decrees that operatives who are not accredited as diplomats can perform "spotting" and "assessment" functions for the spy masters but only those with diplomatic status can handle informants. "We couldn't let the KGB get away with this," said an intelligence official. The timing of the collar was not a mistake by overeager agents. Said FBI Assistant Director William Baker: "The final decision on an arrest was fully cleared in interagency channels right...
...arrest of Daniloff, says Washington Kremlinologist Dimitri Simes, was a "considered judgment and decison by an irritated Soviet leadership." Whether Gorbachev fully concurred is a much debated question. He, Foreign Policy Adviser Anatoli Dobrynin and Shevardnadze were all on vacation at the time, raising the possibility that the KGB staged the Lenin Hills charade without consulting the top political leadership. Most U.S. analysts were incredulous that such an important arrest could have been made without Gorbachev's knowledge. Says former CIA Director William Colby: "The most interesting thing about this is how it shows the power of the KGB...
After the U. S. arrests an alleged KGB agent, the Soviets threaten Correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with espionage charges. For Western reporters in Moscow, harassment is an occupational hazard. -- The crash of a small plane and a jetliner over...