Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they were to be flown back to Moscow. The bus and truck convoy that transported the frightened Soviets was guarded by heavily armed Lebanese Communist and Druze militiamen. A well-informed source in Beirut said that the Soviets may have trained some Druze fighters and now have a sizable KGB station in Mukhtara, the mountain home of Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt...
...crossovers that has kept heads spinning in intelligence communities East and West took yet another turn last week. In this round, Washington was the victim. U.S. officials acknowledged that an ex-CIA officer had been fingered as a Soviet spy by Vitaly Yurchenko, a top- ranking official of the KGB, Moscow's intelligence organization, who defected to the West in July. The accused agent was identified as Edward Lee Howard, 33, who worked for the CIA as recently as June 1983, evidently in the agency's clandestine service. As if that were not damaging enough, officials also disclosed that Howard...
After Howard failed a routine lie detector test, the posting was canceled, and he was fired by the agency. Howard returned to his native New Mexico and became a bona fide economic analyst for the state legislative finance committee. After Yurchenko began identifying KGB "assets" in the U.S. during a lengthy debriefing, the FBI started a thorough background check on Howard, including interviews with co-workers and neighbors. Howard was last seen at his office on Sept. 21, a Saturday. The next day his supervisor found a letter announcing his resignation for "personal reasons." It is assumed that Howard fled...
Last month the KGB's senior agent in London, Oleg Gordievsky, defected after years of providing the British with intelligence on Soviet espionage operations. Within a week the British government dismissed 31 Soviet diplomats, trade officials and journalists whom the double agent had identified as spies. Moscow, clearly embarrassed by the incident, retaliated by expelling an equal number of British citizens...
...some Western scientists that the nuclear winter scenario was promoted by Moscow to give antinuclear groups in the U.S. and Europe some fresh ammunition against America's arms buildup. Conspiracy theorists speculate that Alexandrov was planning to renounce the nuclear winter concept and may have been kidnaped by the KGB. According to another theory, the physicist defected to the West. In any case, a delegation of Soviet scientists skipped an annual conference in Sicily this summer, giving neither an explanation nor an advance warning of the boycott...