Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only a few hours earlier, Soviet Charge d'Affaires Lev Parshin had been summoned to the Foreign Office. There, Deputy Under Secretary David Goodall told him that Oleg Gordievsky, officially an embassy counselor but now also identified as a senior operative of the KGB, the Soviet intelligence agency, had defected to Britain. With that, Goodall handed Parshin a list naming 25 Soviet diplomats, trade officials and journalists whom Gordievsky had identified as spies. Parshin was told that all would have to leave Britain within three weeks...
...that twists from Siberia to the Bronx. Perhaps the most odious individual is the exiled dissident poet Evgeny Shar. To him crime is just "politics without the excuses." His nemesis, Writer David Aronow, scrapes by translating "the endless memoirs of people from countries where nothing ever worked out well." KGB Colonel Anton Vinias, responsible for instigating Western soccer riots, believes reality is simply "documentary footage, crying out for montage." In the end there is nothing to cheer for; avaricious superpowers widen the cold war gulf. Lourie, a professional translator from Russian and Polish into English, knows his turf well...
...regional administrator, Gorbachev caught the eye of two powerful patrons: Mikhail Suslov, who was for many years the Soviet Union's chief ideologist, and Yuri Andropov, longtime head of the KGB secret police. Suslov, who commanded partisan forces in the Stavropol area during World War II, kept tabs on promising young apparatchiks in the region. Andropov often vacationed at hot-springs resorts near Stavropol. Gorbachev in effect served as his host. Suslov and Andropov engineered Gorbachev's appointment to higher and higher posts in the regional party and, in 1978, his sudden call to Moscow as a member...
...some officials in Washington, the episode indicated blundering by an overzealous KGB. Wide use of the spy dust would seem to be self-defeating, since the number of people spreading it would increase exponentially, from 500-odd Americans (180 of whom work at the embassy) to countless Soviet citizens with whom they have routine dealings. The Soviet government officially dismissed the U.S. charges as "absurd" and "outrageous." At a White House briefing in Los Angeles, Spokesman Larry Speakes suggested that the Kremlin's leaders, including Gorbachev, may not have known about the spy dust. There was more than a hint...
Washington charges the kgb with using "spy dust" and decides to test a new antisatellite weapon, as superpower relations grow chillier. Reagan rests up + at the ranch and braces for a taxing...