Word: kuzichkin
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...NATO military positions in northeastern Italy. The Rome manager of a Soviet petrochemical company was also seized, as paymaster of the operation. In Madrid, a member of the trade delegation at the Soviet embassy was expelled three weeks ago. Was there a connection, perhaps through revelations by Vladimir Kuzichkin, the 35-year-old senior KGB operative in Iran, who defected to Britain last fall? As a former agent in the Middle East and the Orient, Kuzichkin certainly would have had wide knowledge of Soviet espionage activities...
French, British and U.S. intelligence sources were quick to dismiss the possibility of any link between the French crackdown and expulsions elsewhere in Western Europe. French officials pointed out that the expelled Soviets had been under investigation long before Kuzichkin came in from the cold. Another hypothesis to help explain Mitterrand's move was the unresolved murder in mid-February of Lieut. Colonel Bernard Nut, a top French agent, although officials in Paris insisted that the incident was not "decisive" (see box). Analysts also rejected the theory that Mitterrand had been angered by the arrest a week earlier...
...leader, Yuri Andropov, TIME correspondents employed their own resourceful information-gathering techniques. In a dozen capitals, they pieced together anecdotes and insights from intelligence agents, diplomats, academic specialists and members of the Russian émigré community. In London, TIME'S Frank Melville met with Defector Vladimir Kuzichkin, a former KGB major. Washington Correspondent Christopher Redman talked with past and present members of U.S. intelligence and found them wary about revealing too much knowledge of KGB operations, lest it tip off Soviet spies to U.S. capabilities. Moscow Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof probably had the most delicate assignment. "Soviet citizens...
...down to its own five-year plan. Because the KGB is organized in a rigid, vertical chain of command, cronyism is widespread. Many of its officers are not above currying favor with their superiors and sometimes compound their mistakes by trying to cover them up. According to Defector Vladimir Kuzichkin, this most secretive of organizations has had its share of minor security lapses. An angry old woman searching for a toy store located across the street was once discovered roaming through the ground floor of the KGB building. In an incident that must have left Andropov red-faced, a distinguished...
...analysts speculate that Andropov's election as party chief reflects the gradual gravitation of political power in Communist countries toward the military and security sectors. Andropov's first round of appointments certainly suggests that he wants to use KGB men and methods to run the Soviet Union. But Vladimir Kuzichkin, a former KGB agent in Iran who defected to the British last June, insists that Andropov has been and remains a loyal party man. As Kuzichkin told TIME: "In the West people talk about the KGB as if it were an independent body. It is an instrument in the hands...