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When the last chief of the Soviet Union's KGB published his memoirs last year, David Remnick went to see him in Moscow. He found that while Vladimir Kryuchkov had turned pallid and squinty, he was still a man with ambitions. "I think I have real potential," the spymaster said, urging Remnick to give his book a plug in print. Now there's a tidy tombstone for the cold war: the former jailer of the old "evil empire" scrounging for free publicity in the West...
...unhonored prophet Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the offices of the new business czars, and the salons of Moscow's intelligentsia. He likes to put you in a room where important people carry on thought-provoking discussions. In one intense conversation, satirical novelist Vladimir Voinovich laments that the party big shots and KGB bosses quickly betrayed the ideology they had imposed on hundreds of millions of people, while democrats, including Yeltsin, still walk, talk and "act like the old Soviet leaders...
...Russia from 1987-92 for more than $224,000. Only the second FBI agent ever charged with spying, Pitts could spend the rest of his life in prison. At the time he was accused of being in league with the Russians, Pitts was assigned to hunt and recruit Soviet KGB agents, and later worked on top secret documents and personnel security at FBI headquarters. He was arrested after an 18-month investigation, in which agents posed as Russian spies to gather evidence on him. Pitts' wife Mary, herself an FBI agent, played a role in the investigation, searching his home...
...serves as chief of staff. Korzhakov contends that Chubais and Yeltsin's daughter and influential aide, Tatiana Dyachenko, have since siphoned power away from the President and are running the country through him. While Korzhakov says he feels sorry for Yeltsin, don't look for the granite-faced former KGB employee to go easy on the President who is now a bitter enemy. Yeltsin, in any case, is ill equipped to stand up to public scandal. For the first time since the President's disappearance from public view, a Kremlin official conceded Tuesday that Yeltsin's recovery is going slower...
...freakiest mysteries in the history of celebrity stalking may have been solved. Back in 1986, DAN RATHER told of an attack by a man who kept asking, "Kenneth, what's the frequency?" Some doubted it. Others thought his stalker was a KGB agent. Still others, notably the band R.E.M., which had a hit with What's the Frequency, Kenneth?, saw the incident as a cry of alienation. The New York Daily News, working on a tip from a psychiatrist, suggested that the assailant was William Tager, a disturbed man who believed the media were beaming messages...