Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...embassy found NPPD again. Also, some embassy employees developed skin rashes, the possible result of contact with heavier-than-usual concentrations of the chemical. Intensified searches pointed to more widespread Soviet use of NPPD, and in larger quantities than ever before. At one point, in fact, careless KGB operatives seem to have sprinkled it so heavily in the embassy that the chemical for once turned visible, leaving a telltale yellow splotch. Two weeks ago the Administration made a detailed report to President Reagan, who approved a formal protest to Moscow and a public statement. U.S. officials admit that...
William O'Hara, an American steel executive in Moscow, noted that any risks to health would be shared by "some very high-level Russians" who come in contact with embassy personnel. Officials in Washington speculated that the KGB might simply not have given any thought to health hazards...
...Pentagon is concerned about Moscow's acquiring American technology that could have military applications. The two sides have been dickering for years over opening new consulates, but the recent wave of spy scandals in the U.S. has increased FBI concerns about Soviet diplomatic offices' providing cover for KGB agents. Also, Soviet and American diplomats have been discussing cooperation in regions where the superpowers support opposing forces: Afghanistan, the Middle East and southern Africa. But these talks are a long way from producing any agreements...
Immigrants reweave bits and pieces of native culture, and counterculture, into the New York fabric. On Manhattan's Second Avenue are the offices of the Ukrainian National Liberation Front. In Brighton Beach, the best seller at the Black Sea bookstore is a Russian translation of The kgb Today. The pastor of a church in Queens says he figured that one new congregant, a woman who constantly glanced over her shoulder, was deranged. "It turns out she is a Soviet refugee terrified of the secret police," says the minister...
Treholt, then head of the Foreign Ministry's press office, was arrested in 1984 in Oslo just before boarding a plane for Vienna and an alleged meeting with a KGB general. He was carrying a briefcase crammed with 65 classified documents. "I wanted to arrange better relations betweeen East and West," he said, "but that does not make me a spy." The Norwegian court disagreed and sentenced him to a maximum 20 years in prison...