Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hands like to pass such stories along to newcomers. They complain about Moscow's dilapidated housing, the lack of fresh vegetables, and the sense of isolation. "What can the KGB do to us," they ask, "throw...
...intimidation can cut both ways. One memorable January evening a few years ago, four American correspondents attended a farewell party for a refusenik who had at long last received permission to emigrate to Israel. When they left the celebration, the reporters were surrounded by a gang of men -- obvious KGB agents, judging by their suits, overcoats and good fur hats. The agents cursed and shoved the journalists, sending two of them sprawling into the curbside snow. As the shaken reporters picked themselves up, all but one of the gang disappeared down a side street. The straggler, a tall, beefy young...
Suddenly one of the Westerners mastered his fright and whispered, "Stop, let him pass." The four came to a halt in the middle of the sidewalk. The KGB man, clearly unprepared for the maneuver, walked past them. The hound had become the hare. "Now let's catch up and embarrass him," said the correspondent. The reporters began jogging toward the KGB agent, who looked around, startled, and set off at a dead run. Pedestrians turned to stare at the sight: middle-aged men dressed in suits and overcoats pounding down a snowy sidewalk like bankers after...
After half a block, there was indeed a bus stop. The KGB man leaped aboard a trolley as the door was starting to close. As it pulled away, the journalists caught a glimpse of the agent's face peering through a frost- rimmed window, pop-eyed with terror. He had been as frightened as the reporters...
...Misha was hurrying off, eight KGB agents surrounded Daniloff, grabbed the package he had been given and hauled him away in handcuffs. They drove him to Lefortovo, Moscow's infamous maximum-security prison, where they opened the envelope and announced that it contained photographs and maps marked TOP SECRET. After an interrogation in which the KGB agents demanded to know whom he was "really" working for, Daniloff was stripped of his belt and shoelaces and placed in an 8-ft. by 10-ft. "isolator" cell. Though American reporters in Moscow have been harassed, arrested and expelled in the past...