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RUSSIA'S YARD SALE Psst! Wanna buy a MiG jet fighter? How about 200 lbs. of uncut emeralds or a little nuclear-reactor fuel? In once secret military-industrial cities, all this and more is for sale. But beware: the mafia, the KGB, old party officials and new Moscow bureaucrats may want a piece of the action...
...four Russians were interested in a joint venture with their guest of honor, a foreign businessman, but had little desire to meet anywhere they could be seen by KGB types. (Russians still call the secret police the KGB, even though the domestic side of the agency has been renamed the Federal Counterintelligence Service.) Nor could they afford to be spotted by anyone from the vast, amorphous gang of criminals and hustlers that make up the Russian mafia. Only a few months ago, one of the Russians explained apologetically, the hotel manager had been killed because he failed to show...
...resolved by paying off both sides, but the foreigner's previous visit had aroused dangerous interest among the locals. A mafia group headed by a fearsome gangster nicknamed the Gorilla had got wind of the deal and was demanding a piece of any sale. The curiosity of the local KGB had also been piqued, and it too had no intention of permitting the emeralds to change hands without taking...
Sunday: In a rambling interview with a 60 Minutes reporter, said that "it's better if Jewish people will live together in Israel" and denied ever having worked for the KGB . . . Monday: Left Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia, after being forced to stay overnight in an airport lounge when officials denied him entry to the country. (In January he had been asked to leave Slovenia after reports that his entourage had damaged property at a resort while drinking.) . . . Friday: Refused to meet with former U.S. President Richard Nixon, saying the U.S. nearly "impeached Nixon and now Russia is impeaching...
...KGB: Business as usual under a new name...