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...surprising show of glasnost, General Vladimir Kryuchkov, head of the KGB, hurried to correct that impression. Yes, he told reporters in Moscow, Orlov was Souther, who first surfaced in the Soviet Union last July claiming that the FBI had been harassing him. "I lost my future," he said. But Souther acquired his Russian name only after he was granted asylum last year. What was news was that Souther, as Izvestia reported last week, had been spying for the Soviets "for a long time" and had acquired the rank of KGB major...
...report Souther as a spy. Souther had too much extra money, she claimed, and took Government documents home in violation of regulations. Authorities initially dismissed her accusations as an ex- wife's spite, but now suspect that Souther was recruited by the KGB during that tour in Italy. Kryuchkov refused to confirm that but said more details of Souther's career in espionage would be published. "We can be quite open about this," he said. "We have our spies, and you have yours...
...Russian and the birth of their daughter, he was not happy in Moscow. "I haven't found my niche exactly," Souther told Soviet television viewers last year, but he had decided "to live here or not to live." He apparently decided on the latter course: according to Kryuchkov, Souther had committed suicide "in a nervous state of mind...
That speech drew a standing ovation from virtually the entire assemblage. Even President Mikhail Gorbachev applauded briefly. More significantly, the new KGB boss, Vladimir Kryuchkov, told reporters after Vlasov's moving outburst that the new Soviet legislature would consider following the U.S. fashion and naming a committee to oversee intelligence operations...
...prison, where Natan Sharansky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and many lesser-known dissidents have been detained. What Syrokomsky and Akhlomov saw, of course, was carefully screened; they were not allowed into the KGB communications center, laboratories and interrogation rooms. And conspicuously absent from Nedelya's pages was any insight into Vladimir Kryuchkov, the new chief...