Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...farmers in war zones have caused $ 1 billion worth of cattle to perish. Yet the regime seems scarcely interested in attending to such problems. For the fiscal year ending in March 1983, the Islamic Revolution Records, ostensibly a record-keeping body but believed to be a front for KGB-trained secret police, was budgeted to receive 60 times as much money as dam construction and harbor repair combined. This year at least one-third of Iran's oil revenues (which account for 95% of its national income) will be used...
...time of Andropov's election, Chernenko had been passed over because of his close ties to the Brezhnev bureaucracy. According to this theory, the party apparatus, and hence Chernenko, had lost out when Defense Minister Ustinov tipped the balance in support of Andropov, who had been head of the KGB for 15 years and shared the military's concern for discipline and efficiency. The actual explanation may have been far simpler. Andropov's colleagues on the Politburo apparently considered him to be the more qualified of the two. But once Andropov's health began to fail, Ustinov, Tikhonov and Gromyko...
...brushed clean of ice and snow. A burial plot had been marked off for Andropov in the special cemetery along the Kremlin wall reserved for prominent Communist leaders. Appropriately, Andropov was buried alongside Felix Dzerzhinsky, the man who in 1917 had founded the security agency that grew into the KGB empire that Andropov ran before becoming party leader...
...political. At the Black Sea camp of Artek last summer, Pioneers wrote postcards to President Reagan urging him to accept Soviet peace proposals; during a broadcast of the TV show I Serve the Soviet Union, Pioneers ran obstacle courses and assembled machine guns, all under the watchful eyes of KGB border guards...
...only had Andropov gained influence during his years at KGB headquarters in Dzerzhinsky Square, but he appeared to be relatively untainted by the job. Some foreign observers even considered him to be a closet reformer. Word was spread around Moscow and Western capitals that he was really a secret liberal who read trashy American novels and listened to Chubby Checker albums. A rare Andropov interview published in the West German magazine Der Spiegel brought the rumor mill grinding to a halt. Andropov acknowledged that he had traditional tastes. He said that he did not play tennis but did enjoy Beethoven...