Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sentencing hearing, prosecutors made public two affidavits containing new details of what the Soviet Union got for the $332,000 apiece that it paid Whitworth and his former Navy cohort, Spymaster John Walker, from 1975 to 1985. One affidavit was based on the debriefing of Vitaly Yurchenko, the KGB officer who defected to the U.S. and then returned to the Soviet Union last year. Yurchenko, according to the affidavit, learned from his superiors "that the KGB regarded the Walker-Whitworth operation to be the most important . . . in the KGB's history." The Kremlin apparently agreed: one KGB officer was decorated...
...providing information, John is due to get life (parole eligibility: ten years), and Michael 25 years (parole eligibility: eight years and four months). The Government justified the severity of Whitworth's punishment by contending that he was the "principal agent of collection" for the secrets relayed to the KGB...
Many, including Goodman, are certain that Daniloff was framed by the KGB, possibly in retaliation for the U.S. arrest of Zakharov. Daniloff was arrested after a Soviet acquaintance gave him a packet that was later found to include maps marked "top secret...
When Muslim fundamentalists disable a crucial Soviet oil refinery, Moscow works out a cold-blooded scheme to prevent the country's economy from collapsing: KGB agents blow up a group of Soviet schoolchildren visiting the Kremlin; the U.S.S.R. then blames the attack on West German terrorists, launches an invasion of Central Europe, captures Iceland and rushes the navy into action in an attempt to control the North Atlantic sea-lanes--all as a ruse for grabbing Persian Gulf oil facilities. The pretext serves Clancy better than it does the Soviets: it provides a fine backdrop for his account of strategies...
Last year, a U.S. official in Washington said Howard may have been identified as a Soviet agent by Vitaly Yurchenko, a former high-ranking KGB official who defected in Rome but later returned to the Soviet Union...