Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MOSCOW--Mikhail Gorbachev pulled off a major shake-up of the Communist Party Politburo yesterday, retiring a quarter of the ruling elite in one stroke and promoting his KGB chief and his top economic planner...
Dropped from power was the Ukrainian party chief, Vladimir V. Shcherbitsky, 71; former KGB chief Viktor M. Chebrikov, 66; and Viktor P. Nikonov, 60. Only one pre-Gorbachev appointee is left on the 11 member Politburo...
Promoted were KGB Gen. Vladimir A. Kryuchkov, who presided over a partial opening up of his secrecy bound agency, and economic planning chief Yuri D. Maslyukov...
...course, was rewarded with a knighthood from a grateful Queen. Call that just vacation fun compared with what Clancy pulled off in The Cardinal of the Kremlin. Not only did he virtually save the job of a reform-minded Soviet leader but he also spirited a defecting KGB chief onto Air Force One to fly to the land of freedom, opportunity and new Tom Clancy novels...
Bloch, on Bush's orders, gave the suitcase to an agent of the CIA, not the KGB. That agent, in turn, brought the case to the youth group with which Ollie North is performing his court-ordered community service. Imitating "Uncle Ollie," the kids immediately shredded the bag's contents...