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...Communist Party youth daily, Komsomolskaya Pravda, disclosed last week that two senior colonels, both veterans of the nine-year war in Afghanistan, sent a telegram to Gorbachev and Defense Minister Yazov two weeks ago urging them not to use force in Azerbaijan. Military intervention, they warned, would lead to a "complete disruption in relations" with the local people and "trigger the growth of anti-Russian feeling...
...York Times. Never short on chutzpah, he even transmitted radio messages to the U.S. embassy in Moscow from a passing trolley bus. Though Soviet agents reportedly suspected his disloyalty for years, he repeatedly managed to wriggle out of trouble. Until just recently, that is. Last week Pravda revealed that Donald F. had at last been snared and sentenced...
...affair seemed both a throwback to the cold war and an illustration of growing openness in the Soviet Union. Rarely have the Soviets acknowledged that a secret agent has so seriously compromised their security. Pravda disclosed that Donald F. -- code-named "Top Hat" by his American patrons, who say he worked for Soviet military intelligence -- passed on diplomatic codes, nuclear-weapons doctrine, civil-defense blueprints and plans for coping with chemical and biological warfare. It was not clear when Top Hat was apprehended or whether he has been executed...
...some time; his cover may have been blown by several references to his existence that have appeared in the U.S. press over the years. Soviet officials may have decided to expose the affair now in an effort to rehabilitate the reputation of KGB Colonel Alexander Dukhanin, whom Pravda credited with breaking the case. Last year Dukhanin was implicated in a corruption investigation of Politburo member Yegor Ligachev and KGB officers...
...Pravda's account, Donald F. was the real thing, motivated by ideology, vaulting ambition and derring-do. Upon arrest, the paper said, he showed no fear, telling his captors, "I was used to walking the knife's edge and could not imagine any other life for myself...