Word: kgb
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...equal opportunity employer, the KGB used attractive women to seduce some targets. These so-called honeypots would use lipstick tubes--actually one-shot pistols--to finish...
...friend, who would not let me print his name but volunteered he studied spying with ?Volodya? Putin (an affectionate nickname for the Russian President who earned his stripes in the KGB) and Sasha Lebed (another prominent Russian politician) in the old Soviet days, leaned over to give me the plot. Ostravak is a drinking buddy of his from another bar, a real writer who pens the diary based on stories he hears in pubs. "I promised not to tell his name. I give you some hints, or even better I'll arrange for you to meet...
...report said Columbia envisions an espionage thriller "exploring the collision between the deep rooted Russian power structure enforced by the KGB ... and the new wave of wild west capitalism" that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union...
...Litvinenko was an agent in the Russian Federal Security Service, the agency that replaced the KGB. After breaking with the agency he was granted asylum in Britain, where he became a fierce Kremlin critic and wrote a book claiming that the FSB had bombed apartment buildings in 1999 to blame the blasts on Chechen separatists and create a pretext for resuming the war in Chechnya...
...nuclear plant. His job is to shoot first. His friends Hotdog and Pepsi, parking-lot attendants, make their living stealing gas from cars. Natasha has slept with two of the three and now runs an international Internet mail-order bride service called Amour Transit, patronized by the fsb (former kgb) and foreign-intelligence services. It's an empty existence of anger and boredom punctuated only by what's on television that night. "Those who created the dumbest of the comic books," says the nameless sniper, "created our present." One day, the friends are watching the World Cup on TV together...