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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Western intelligence authorities fear that the KGB believes the same rules that lead to success at home will also work abroad. During the Andropov era, the KGB's foreign directorate moved out of the Dzerzhinsky Square headquarters to a large, modern, half-moon-shaped office building on the Moscow Ring Road. It expanded overseas operations, though it still shares assignments with the GRU (Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravleniye), the Chief Intelligence Directorate of the Soviet military. Many experts consider the KGB to be the world's most effective information-gathering organization. Says a senior intelligence staff member in Congress: "It used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The KGB: Eyes of the Kremlin | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

Counterintelligence analysts estimate there are at least 350 KGB and GRU agents in the U.S. In Soviet embassies and consulates around the globe, at least a third of the resident diplomatic staff are estimated to work for the KGB. These "legals," who operate under diplomatic cover, receive support from other agents scattered through the Soviet press corps or the staff of Soviet agencies with overseas offices, such as Aeroflot and Intourist. The largest concentration of agents in the U.S. is in New York City, where special United Nations conferences can swell the size of the Soviet delegation to more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The KGB: Eyes of the Kremlin | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

...KGB runs a parallel espionage operation using "illegals." Such agents assume a false identity, complete with a false personal history, or "legend," so they can penetrate deeply into a foreign setting. They often remain inactive for years before receiving an assignment from Moscow. Illegal Agent Rudolph Herrmann slipped into the U.S. by way of Canada in 1969 and, while posing as a freelance photographer, arranged information drops for other spies. FBI agents caught up with Herrmann because of a blunder by his KGB contact and turned him into a double agent. Herrmann "officially defected" in 1980, after receiving orders from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The KGB: Eyes of the Kremlin | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

Under Andropov's direction, the KGB has made a concerted effort to catch up with Western intelligence services in the technology of espionage. The Soviets are still lagging behind the U.S. in developing spy satellites. Only two weeks ago, a runaway Cosmos 1402 Soviet spy-in-the-sky plummeted to earth, the second such event in five years. But Moscow has made significant advances in electronic eavesdropping. Operatives from the KGB routinely monitor Western communications from embassy outposts bristling with antennas or from offshore spy trawlers. Ironically, the Soviets have benefited from the telecommunications revolution in the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The KGB: Eyes of the Kremlin | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

...KGB lags behind in technical spycraft, it is second to none in human intelligence "assets." KGB Defector Aleksei Myagkov says that between 1969 and 1974, 1,500 West Germans were recruited by the Soviets as spies. No one knows how many Americans have been enlisted, but FBI officials are sure of one thing: KGB activity in the U.S. is on the rise. Says the FBI's O'Malley: "It is evident in the ever increasing resources deployed against us, in the unrelenting effort by the KGB to recruit agents from Government, business and science, and the growing voraciousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The KGB: Eyes of the Kremlin | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

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