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...U.S.S.R. is itself a Third World country, appealing for American largesse. The new chief of the foreign branch of the KGB, Yevgeni Primakov, even offered last week to engage in joint ventures with...
Last week President Mikhail Gorbachev took yet another chop at the monster. He appointed his close adviser Yevgeni Primakov to head the foreign intelligence division, which will become a separate organization...
...Primakov, an Arabist and a member of the Academy of Sciences, is the first civilian to head the KGB's spy network. He vows to civilize intelligence gathering and make it "scientific." The days of "people in gray coats standing on corners," he says, will be replaced by a focus on fighting terrorism, the drug traffic and the proliferation of nuclear weapons...
...Call them in now," said M.S. A couple of minutes later we joined them in the dining room. I will remember all my life the scene that followed. Silayev and Rutskoi ran up to Gorbachev and embraced him. Exclamations, some words spoken loudly. People interrupting each other. Bakatin and Primakov were also there. Those were all the guys who had cussed M.S. more than once in parliament and in the press, argued, expressed indignation and protested...
Then came the flight. M.S., together with his family, occupied a small compartment in the plane and called me in. Everyone laughed with relief. We were joined by Silayev, Rutskoi, Primakov, Bakatin and Dr. Igor Borisov ((Gorbachev's personal physician)). The talk centered on people, on their behavior in extreme situations, on immorality as a source of all ills. Toasts were proposed to ongoing life. It was then that Gorbachev spoke for the first time the words "We are flying into...