Word: mgb
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Armand Maloumian, then 20 years old, was visiting Moscow in 1948 when he was suddenly arrested by agents of the MGB (now the KGB). A French citizen of Armenian descent whose father was a physical education instructor temporarily teaching in the Soviet Union, Maloumian was accused of spying for the French secret service. He was first condemned to death, but was later convicted of treason, despite his foreign nationality, and sentenced to 25 years at hard labor. In early 1956, when Soviet authorities were cutting down the Gulag population as part of the destalinization drive, Maloumian was informed...
...Russian abbreviation for Committee for State Security) is a descendant of secret police agencies maintained over the centuries by anxious Russian czars; after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the Communists called their secret police, successively, the CHEKA, GPU, OGPU, GUCB/NKVD and MGB, the KGB'S forerunner. Today the agency has a force of 300,000 men under arms to guard Soviet borders, as well as a corps of customs agents. Intourist too works closely with the KGB; tourist guides can steer chosen visitors to restaurants that have hidden microphones...
...work week, she jumps into her MGB and roars off to Devon, 225 miles away, where she and her husband, a local auto-parts dealer, have a cottage. Rippon, who has no children, spends her up-country time cooking, riding and bird watching. It is a long commute but, says Rippon, "I've worked all my life in a male-dominated society, and I couldn't pass up an opportunity like this." Nor does word about the salaries they are paying in the former colonies disturb her. Says she: "I'm delighted for Barbara Walters. But things...
...year-old American file clerk from the U.S. embassy in Moscow named Alexander Dolgun strolled down Gorky Street on his way to lunch. Suddenly a tall, good-looking stranger hailed him like a long-lost friend. Alex's purported kiryukha (old buddy) was a major in the MGB, the Ministry of State Security, who promptly took him to jail. What began as a delayed luncheon lasted seven years and eight months. For the first 18 months the MGB tried unsuccessfully to force their prisoner to confess that he was a spy, than sentenced him to 25 years of hard...
...Russo, a Los Angeles architect who drives a 1964 MGB, agrees. "I've learned all I know about cars here at the center," he says. "I got a manual, read it, and started doing a little bit at a time." As his confidence grew, he went into more complex tasks, such as rebuilding his engine. Says Russo: "The mystery of mechanics isn't so mysterious any more." Working near by on his wife's old Buick, Law Student Ernest Burger remarks: "I'm actually acting out a childhood fantasy." Many people have always itched to play...