Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...master of the diplomatic arts. Another is a former shipyard engineer with a reputation for rudeness and arrogance. A third is a tough fighter against corruption who once reportedly fell into disfavor and was sent packing to Cuba as Ambassador. And the fourth is a former KGB chief from the Muslim south. This is the quartet of crucial players who will determine how smoothly and how quickly Mikhail Gorbachev will be able to accumulate power...
Speaking at Harvard's Russian Research Center. Alburt said Soviet grandmasters of the game are often "used as KGB infiltrators...
...armed himself with a strong pair of Soviet-made binoculars to monitor Andropov's expression as he greeted such disparate visitors as George Bush and Fidel Castro. "The binoculars were large and conspicuous," recalls Amfitheatrof, "and as I watched the face of Andropov, the man who had led the KGB for 15 years, I felt the occasional chill of having my rude stare returned...
During his nearly four years as TIME's Moscow bureau chief, Erik Amfitheatrof has reported in depth on the KGB, the changing life-styles of Soviet youth, Soviet military strength and scores of other stories. But no subject has preoccupied him more deeply than the waning lives and deaths of the Soviet Union's superannuated rulers. Since November 1982, Amfitheatrof has attended the obsequies for three top Soviet leaders, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, as well as those for the powerful Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov...
Immediately after his arrest, security officials say, Treholt offered to become a double agent, a gesture they refused. Treholt, who faces a jail , sentence of up to 20 years if found guilty, admits that he passed minor classified documents to KGB agents. But, he declared from the dock, "I have never on any occasion betrayed information concerning the nation's security or military secrets...