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...photo of the unmarked wooden crosses in the northern tundra reminded me of my youth. In 1945, my physician father and I were taken by the Soviet NKVD (more recently the KGB) from our home in Budapest, Hungary, and, though innocent, accused of espionage. (After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the charges were dropped.) We were shipped to the labor camps (Gulag) of the dreaded Kolyma region of northeastern Siberia, where I spent eight years between life and death. At one point, I weighed 85 lbs., and only a miracle saved me from joining those wooden crosses. My father...
...Humphrey declined the offer). How Soviet Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev got drunk while visiting Nixon at San Clemente and vilified Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny and Premier Alexei Kosygin. Hours later, a sleepwalking First Lady Pat Nixon appeared in a nightgown and was carried back to her bed by a kgb agent. How Brezhnev collapsed with seizures just before and after his 1975 summit in Vladivostok with Gerald Ford-and, while summiting with Jimmy Carter in Vienna in 1980, was so out of touch that his interpreters ad-libbed his drooling replies. How Ronald Reagan, when told Dobrynin was returning...
Frightened by the fatal poisoning of influential banker Ivan Kivelidi earlier this month, Russia's nouveaux riche businessmen held a protest in front of the former KGB headquarters in Moscow to protest the slayings of nearly 50 of their contemporaries in the past year. Arriving in chauffeured armored limousines and surrounded by burly bodyguards, the businessmen demanded a government crackdown on crime...
...KGB spy code, the U.S. was "Country," the atomic bomb project was "Enormoz," and Franklin Roosevelt was "Kapitan." That's according to newly released CIA documents that showthe KGBhad a sense of history as well as a rather heavy-handed sense of humor. The U.S. intelligence agency released four dozen intercepted messages from the pre-Cold War days during the mid-1940's, when the Soviets were scrambling to develop their own atom bomb. "Much to my astonishment, one finds evidence of KGB humor," said CIA Director John Deutch. "Washington is referred to as Carthage, San Francisco is Babylon...
...flying ("I shouldn't say"), whether he saw the missile ("No comment, Larry"), whether Serbs were shooting at him as he parachuted down ("Can't talk about that") and even his feelings about returning to his fighter wing ("Can't answer"). "What is this," King asked in frustration, "a KGB hearing...