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Poppy will bring up marijuana, draft-dodging and the KGB. Elvis will try to rise above it all. Big Ears will say that's what's wrong with politics today. The audience will clap politely...
Coming in from the cold got too hot for Edward Lee Howard, the CIA's only known cold-war defector to the KGB. After a short interlude in Stockholm, during which Swedish authorities considered whether he had spied against their government, Howard scurried back to Russia. "He's safe in Moscow," said Howard's lawyer. U.S. Department of Justice officials, frustrated because espionage is not included in the U.S.-Swedish extradition treaty, vowed in a statement "to bring Howard to trial no matter how long it may take...
Unlike in the U.S., preparations for nuclear conflict during the cold war remain tightly held secrets in Russia, a reflection of the military's continued suspicion of the West. But some information can be pieced together. According to several sources, including former KGB officers, the Kremlin and other key buildings in Moscow are still linked by underground rail tunnels to an area about six miles outside the city center called Ramenki, site of a vast subterranean bunker designed for the country's leaders and their families. ( Responsibility for protection of top Kremlin officials rested with the KGB's Ninth Directorate...
...much did Moscow know about U.S. plans to survive a nuclear attack? A former KGB official says spies watched for signs that the U.S. was preparing a nuclear attack by monitoring late-night activity at the Pentagon and keeping track of troop movements. The KGB and GRU, the Soviet military intelligence agency, also used agents to try to discover the location of the bunkers set aside for U.S. leaders. "We did find out some of the operation code names and hiding places," claims the official. Sometimes the U.S.'s own planning methods tipped off the Soviets. Says the official...
...Barcelona, by contrast, life continued as usual. It flows and crests from dawn to dawn here: sunny Sunday mornings watching the albino gorilla in the zoo; early evenings in the stained-glass quiet of Santa Maria del Mar; late, late evenings with thrashing guitars at the penumbral nightclub KGB. Old women dance stately sardanes in front of the cathedral, and men in silk ties ride scooters to the office. Smiling pickpockets filch bank notes from the wallets of sightseers while placing roses in their hair...