Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...KGB Chief Viktor Chebrikov: My dear Comrade General Secretary. I regret to inform you of a most serious intelligence lapse...
...that psychological insight and moral judgment are mutually exclusive. John le Carre is extraordinarily skillful at showing the psychological affinity between the British master spy Smiley and his KGB nemesis Karla. But in the end, there is no mistaking Le Carre's view of the worthiness of their respective enterprises. One can understand and still judge, so long as one is not tempted to understand everything...
...from photos of Sakharov and his wife Yelena Bonner that appeared in the West German tabloid Bild Zeitung on the eve of Mitterrand's visit. The newspaper explained that the pictures had been provided by Victor Louis, an English-speaking Soviet journalist who is widely believed to have KGB connections. One photo purports to show Sakharov strolling through a park in Gorky, the city 250 miles east of Moscow to which he has been exiled, on June 15. "Photos don't prove anything," Sakharov's stepdaughter Tatyana Yankelevich declared after she saw the picture in Paris...
...Gunman Mehmet Ali Agca spun for Italian investigators a web of contradictions, phony confessions and outright lies. But one of his revelations has continued to gain ground as an explanation of the assassination attempt: Agca was hired to kill the Pope by the Bulgarian secret service and, implicitly, the KGB, the Soviet secret police...
...docudrama's portrayal of Soviet life is unconvincing, especially after the flavorful re-creations in such recent films as Gorky Park and Moscow on the Hudson. Its aspirations to realism are frequently betrayed by melodramatics. KGB agents seem to lurk behind every door, like B-movie heavies. But when a witness at a political trial surreptitiously slips a sheaf of documents to Sakharov just before taking the stand, the action is miraculously unseen by any of the guards in the crowded courtroom...