Word: russianness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wave of terrorist bomb attacks on apartment buildings throughout Russia, and has accused the Chechen government of aiding the rebels. But despite the air campaign, Moscow is reluctant to resume the 1994-96 conflict that claimed at least 80,000 lives and muddied the reputation of the once-mighty Russian military. And with good reason: Russia failed to subdue the Chechens last time around, and there's no reason to believe they'd succeed now. But, says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge, "there's tremendous pressure on the government to do something about the 'bandits' who are blamed...
...information the spies produced, the more their bosses wanted. "Demand just kept growing," Sichel said. One of the early CIA exploits was Operation Gold, an ingenious tunnel under East Berlin that was used to tap Soviet telephone lines. Unknown to the CIA at the time, however, George Blake, a Russian mole in the British secret service, revealed plans for the tunnel to Moscow Center even before it was built. Blithely, the Soviets waited a year to fill it in, to help protect Blake's identity...
...Americans emphasized the superiority of their technical-intelligence gathering, from both U-2 overflights of the Soviet Union and early satellite surveillance disguised as a weather-monitoring program. The Russians asserted a huge advantage in human intelligence, with Kalugin claiming that 200 Russian agents had penetrated virtually all branches of the U.S. government by 1948. As one ex-CIA agent joked, all those conspiracy theories of the 1950s turned out to be true after...
...GWYNNE usually operates from Texas as TIME's Austin bureau chief, but for the past few weeks he's been stationed in New York City reporting on laundered Russian money and its alleged appearance at the Bank of New York. An international banker before joining the magazine in 1988, Gwynne brings rare insight into the world of global finance. And he needs it to follow the tangled trail of tainted cash as it trundles through the world's banks. Of the current situation he says, "I think we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg of how much illegal...
DONALD TRUMP High-haired huckster pens book, may try for presidency. "Boris, baby, some Russian roulette...