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...KGB's agents are everywhere. They're with me when I go for a walk, they follow me home after work, and if I wake up in the middle of the night, they're just a phone call away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Answers for 50 Cents: Testing the New KGB | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

...text-message-based information service that, for 50 cents a text, will answer any question you have as accurately as possible. The New York City-based company has been a major player in the directory assistance market for years; when you dial 411, chances are good that KGB will answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Answers for 50 Cents: Testing the New KGB | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

...bargain-basement price is arguably the least startling aspect of a transaction that if confirmed next month following a staff consultation process - and barring any intervention by the British government - will open a new and bizarre chapter in Anglo-Russian relations. Lebedev, after all, is a former KGB operative, who spied on Britain under diplomatic cover during the Cold War, by his own account scouring news sources such as the Standard for tidbits to feed to his handlers back home. His exotic pedigree has caused a few splutters. Richard Ottway, a Conservative MP, said he felt that "the fact that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Soviet Agent to London Newspaper Proprietor | 1/23/2009 | See Source »

Alexander Solzhenitsyn was so elderly and melancholy that in 2008 he died. In the final years of his life, back in the homeland he had fought so hard to free from the oppression of the KGB, he came to a disappointing rapprochement with the new ruler of Russia, a former KGB agent. Having for years been tarred with the accusation of anti-Semitism, he devoted his final energies to a two-volume book about the Jews which would, among other things, demonstrate that he was not anti-Semitic. It mostly did the opposite. When, in the wake of his death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CELEBRITY LIST: Five Melancholy Elderly Literary Men | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...pays a visit to the couple. Florence’s missing father vacillates between supposedly being alive and being presumed dead faster than you can say, “World Communist Conspiracy.” At one point, it is even implied that he may actually work for the KGB...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Chess' Just Isn't Fun Anymore | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

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