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Even after the last Russian and American intelligence archives are opened, if that ever happens, it may be impossible to prove or disprove Sudoplatov's allegations conclusively. His recounting of his career is, after all, the oral history of an old and hardly admirable man, a product of the intrigues and maneuvers of the Stalinist era. As the eminent historian Robert Conquest says in his introduction to Sudoplatov's book: "Individual reminiscences must, indeed, be treated critically -- but so must most documents. Both are simply historical evidence, none of which is perfect, and none of which is complete. Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Oppenheimer Really Help Moscow? | 5/23/1994 | See Source »

...documentation -- well, says Anatoli Sudoplatov, many of the papers that might substantiate his father's story, including the record of atomic-espionage work in the so-called Enormous File, are missing or have been tampered with or destroyed. So, he says, the elder Sudoplatov's report "is based on oral witnesses . . . reconstructed from memory" of what his father learned from spies he worked with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Oppenheimer Really Help Moscow? | 5/23/1994 | See Source »

...examinations, and feared men with pointy canine teeth -- the kind of teeth that reminded her of her father, whom she had accused of sexually abusing her. She had an aversion to whole bananas, melted cheese and mayonnaise -- items, it was claimed, that reflected her trauma over having to perform oral sex on her father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dubious Memories | 5/23/1994 | See Source »

...becomes sensitive and receptive to suggestions due to the context and to the comments of the interviewers." Dr. Lenore Terr, a prominent defender of recovered memories and a chief witness for the defense, admitted under questioning that at least one of Holly's "flashbacks" -- of being forced to perform oral sex on the family dog -- was dubious. That admission helped cast doubt on all of Holly's sex-abuse memories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dubious Memories | 5/23/1994 | See Source »

Despite the advances, Jones says she didn't leave the room but sat down at the end of a sofa. Clinton's next move, she claims, was to drop his trousers and his underwear, sit down beside her on the sofa and ask her to perform oral sex. At that, she says, she headed for the door. As she departed, she says, Clinton told her, "You are smart. Let's keep this between ourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jones Vs. the President | 5/16/1994 | See Source »

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