Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...transaction and usually only $40. Sometimes payment was just a few bottles of Scotch. Said a dismayed senior official: "It seems the nation's top secrets were sold for a song." The identities of Narain's foreign contacts have not been disclosed, but the CIA, the KGB and Pakistan, all implicated in previous Indian espionage cases, were mentioned...
...West. She declared that she had come back to the Soviet Union to rejoin the two children she had left behind in 1967. But her earlier denunciations of the Bolshevik revolution ("a fatal, tragic mistake"), her father ("a moral and spiritual monster"), the Soviet system ("profoundly corrupt") and the KGB (like "the German Gestapo") suggested that her return may have been a desperate, in a sense almost a suicidal...
...much as Stalin had done in his time. "Something is around me, a 'bad aura,' fears, gossip, talk, two governments plotting to get rid of me simultaneously," she complained in the same letter. She stunned an elderly Russian woman, an emigre, by writing to her, "You are a KGB agent. You are a double and triple agent." As Svetlana well knew, it was the kind of denunciation that was made against tens of thousands of innocent people during Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s. Says the recipient of the letter: "She would have executed me had she possessed...
...Soviet military's growing clout cast Ustinov in the role of a Kremlin kingmaker: his support was apparently critical in giving the edge to former KGB Chief Andropov in the race to succeed Brezhnev. Ustinov emerged as a decisive player in the Chernenko regime, making up for the new leader's limited experience in military affairs. At one point this year, when Chernenko's health appeared to falter, the Defense Minister was viewed as a possible interim leader who could oversee the transfer of power to a younger generation...
...State Department aide characterized the exchange somewhat differently. Said the official: "There was a lot of shouting." Some Western diplomats in Moscow speculated that the Soviet charges were meant to deflect attention from Italian Judge Ilario Martella's report indicting three Bulgarians (and by implication the Soviet KGB) for conspiring to murder Pope John Paul...