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...also extremely bold. At a time when he knew the FBI had compromised three KGB agents, he was writing letters to two more - people he had never met before - and offering information for money. And he wrote at length - when you're doing something like this, trying to keep your identity a secret from both sides, you communicate tersely. You don't prattle on and on and on. That's how they caught the Unabomber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spy Who Went in for the Bold | 2/20/2001 | See Source »

...Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), formerly the KGB, have joined forces to try to corral terrorist OSAMA BIN LADEN. FSB Chief NIKOLAI PATRUSHEV has offered to mine his agency's sources inside Afghanistan for information. "The Russians have unmatched capabilities there as far as human intelligence goes," says a terrorism specialist. U.S. officials hope to use the pooled data to track and extradite bin Laden lieutenants who venture abroad. But the fledgling U.S.-Russian partnership is fragile, since cold war suspicions die hard. Washington balks at Moscow's efforts to blame bin Laden for the Chechnya uprising. And, says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: U.S. And Russia Team Up To Hunt Down Bin Laden | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

Vladimir Putin, a former KGB agent and Russia's President, is a St. Petersburg native. He made his name as one of the energetic reformers who gave the city a rolling start as communism collapsed. But these days that momentum is gone, replaced by the languid inertia of drink, drugs and sex. Putin is desperate to change his country. The kids in these photos are desperate to change their lives. That should be a recipe for hope, but in this lawless, rotting city, it has become a prescription for despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: St. Petersburg, Russia: Young & Lost | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...Russia's President last March, Vladimir Putin remained a riddle. Was he really, as his own staff members whispered, a cautious reformer who had learned his stuff in St. Petersburg during the early years of perestroika? Or was he the product of his training and times--a middle-level KGB officer whose views had been formed during a period when the Soviet Union seemed, on the surface at least, a mighty power? Thanks to the Kursk submarine debacle, which cost 118 lives, the guessing game is over. Putin is a gosudarstvennik--a believer in a strong state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter From Moscow: The Needs of the Many | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

...need to protect its prestige. He trusts and supports the men--especially in uniform--who serve it. He accepts that they have a right to juggle with the truth if necessary, and is willing to do it himself if the need arises. He also believes, as do many KGB men of his generation, that any criticism of the state is by definition the product of base, perhaps even sinister motives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter From Moscow: The Needs of the Many | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

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