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...think in order for a law to be valid people have to believe it's [right]," said Daryn David '99. "[The 'Cops in Shops' program] is kind of KGB-esque...
...meantime, he isn't worrying about his paycheck. He's considering doing what so many retired Politburo and KGB bigwigs have done: writing his memoirs. Maybe with the royalties, he'd be able to move his wife Lyudmilla and daughters Natasha, 13, and Yevgeniya, 8, out of the apartment he's lived in since...
...money that fuels that access. Most of the oligarchs got started in the late '80s with money whose origins remain murky. There have been repeated allegations--and repeated denials--that the new millionaires received their start-up capital from the Communist Party, the KGB or other giants of the old system. In any event their companies did well during the privatization of the Russian economy in the early '90s. Perhaps their biggest break came in 1995. Nearly bankrupt, the government offered shares in some of the country's biggest concerns, like oil and mineral resources. The oligarchs gained control...
...whole thing was a set-up, Einhorn assured followers. Through his antiwar research and with contacts that extended beyond the Iron Curtain, he simply knew too much about weapons development, psychic research and global conspiracies. Maddux was murdered to discredit him. The CIA, the KGB, who knew? The most damning evidence against him was also the most obvious proof of his innocence: Would a man as smart as he murder his girlfriend and keep the evidence at his bedside...
MOSCOW: The old KGB is back with an offer many Russians can't refuse. Just pick up the phone, dial 224-3500, and confess you're a spy. Agree to become a double agent, and Mother Russia will pay you twice what you were getting before (a bold claim in a country where even the soldiers haven't been paid in months). The plan is to get a little back from the foreign spy agencies who have swooped into Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union, scooping up precious military secrets from Russians for a song...