Word: lefortovo
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...pledge at Helsinki to "increase the opportunities for journalists to communicate personally with their sources." In an action that was unprecedented since the Stalin era, the KGB forced Los Angeles Times Correspondent Robert Toth to undergo long sessions of hostile and often threatening interrogation in Moscow's dread Lefortovo prison...
...Richard Nixon's arrival in Moscow for the summit meeting. "It is time to end the Middle Ages." Last week plainclothes officers of the KGB (secret police) burst into Yakir's apartment, hustled him into a black Volga sedan, and took him to Lefortovo Prison, where he faces charges of passing information to the West about dissent in the Soviet Union...
...Lyubyanka is no longer a really tough prison. Anyone taken there instead of, say, Lefortovo on the outskirts of Moscow considers himself lucky. Citizens of a police state quickly acquire such vital information, as citizens of free countries know about good or bad hotels...