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...border posts and invited Western economists to advise them on how to set up their own banks. They are trying to introduce their own systems of insurance and taxation as well as their own postage stamps and passports. Two weeks ago, the three Baltic governments called on the KGB to abolish its branch offices in the republics. Last week the three Presidents announced their intention to sign an international treaty curbing the spread of nuclear weapons. They were putting the Soviet Union on notice that it must someday remove its nukes from their territory...
...policies but whose privileges are sewn into the Communist Party patronage quilt. "The party should work outside the workplace, that's plain," Yeltsin told 4,000 workers at a jet-engine factory in Perm as local big shots listened glumly. "I am for the departification of the army, the KGB and the factory." In Tula this message was so badly received that officials cut off power to Yeltsin's microphones for an outdoor speech, then smirked as the candidate struggled with a bullhorn. In Chelyabinsk last week, security agents were so irritated by the ecstatic welcome offered by a crowd...
...government sources say Polish President LECH WALESA may have been forced to dismiss a trusted aide because of accusations that he was a KGB spy. Jacek Merkel, who quietly resigned in March as Minister of State in charge of defense and security, had worked closely with Walesa as a shipyard engineer and Solidarity leader. Merkel privately maintains that political enemies fabricated evidence against him, and is fighting to clear his name. The Interior Ministry has refused to release its police collaborator lists, compiled in the communist era, because the files may contain disinformation about people who had no relationship with...
Traces of that attitude linger. During the parliamentary debate, Deputy Leonid Sukhov, a taxi driver from the Ukraine, warned that free movement of citizens in and out would open the Soviet borders to AIDS. Officers of the KGB border guards mounted an exhibit of guns and drugs seized by customs agents as a warning of what could be expected if the frontiers are opened. Nonetheless, the law stoutly declares that "each citizen of the U.S.S.R. has the right to exit and enter the Soviet Union" and that this right "cannot be arbitrarily denied." Full implementation was put off supposedly...
Gates also takes pride in having helped to establish a day-care center for employees' children, complete with jungle gyms and little CIA T shirts. He delighted in imagining what KGB analysts would conclude from their satellite photos of the facility: perhaps that the CIA was training midgets for some covert mission...