Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aware that the salvage operation would also raise the bodies of the dead Russian officers and men, the CIA had made what it felt was the proper arrangements. The Glomar Explorer was equipped with special cooling facilities that could accommodate up to 100 corpses. In the forward section of the submarine were a number of bodies. While a loudspeaker played a recording of the Soviet national anthem, a funeral service was read in Russian and English. As a CIA cameraman filmed the proceedings in color and sound, the bodies were buried at sea from the Glomar Explorer, each neatly shrouded...
...retrospect, many intelligence experts now play down the potential value of obtaining a code machine and possibly a legible code book. They point out that code machines, Western and Russian models alike, are constructed in a manner that enables the operator to reset circuits and insert new encoding or decoding disks at random so that yesterday's code may give scant clue to today's. Even so, influential U.S. cryptologists at the time believed that an examination of the Russian equipment would increase the possibility that the U.S. might finally succeed in breaking Soviet codes, a feat that...
Stavisky remains a relatively opaque character. His facade is everything. He was born a Russian Jew; his family fled from the pogroms, and his respectable father, a dentist, committed suicide when he learned of Stavisky's first arrest some years before the action of the film takes place. Despite his own doctor's diagnosis of megalomania and schizophrenia, Belmondo's Stavisky is relatively attractive, down to the last minutes when he is trapped like an animal in a Swiss chalet, with stubble growing on his chin like a cheap American gangster, a ruined man awaiting the machine guns...
...Adam Ulam, director of the Russian Research Center and professor of Government, the problems are similar to those at many centers at Harvard and elsewhere. The Russian Research Center receives almost all of its aid exclusively from the Ford Foundation, and he says the foundation has already told him, "It is time for someone else to take over." But as for solutions, Ulam explains, "It would be most unlikely that we could get money from Russia." And although Ulam has not gone to U.S. corporations dealing with Russia for help. Goldman explains that few corporations would want to pump money...
...Stillman's story on the Russian Research Center printed in your issue of Friday, March 14 contains at least one inaccuracy. I could not have said or implied that there had been at any time any connection between the C.L.A. and our Center, because in fact there never was any. As I said over the telephone, our Center has not had the slightest connection with any intelligence gathering organization, nor has it undertakes any classified project. Since its beginning the Center has been and remains a purely scholarly research institution. Adam B. Ulam Director of the Russian Research Center