Word: soviet
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...ambassador of the Soviet Union to the United States from 1962 to 1986, Anatoly Dobrynin was the key link between Washington and Moscow under six American presidents. With power and sincerity, Dobrynin tells the story of the Cold War from this unique perspective in his autobiographical book In Confidence...
...striking characteristic of the book is the confidence with which Dobrynin writes it. He offers a first-hand account of the pitfalls and the triumphs of U.S.-Soviet relations in the course of three decades. As Russian ambassador, he had the opportunity to work with and probe the minds of both Soviet and American leaders...
Working at the highest levels of the Soviet government before his appointment as ambassador, Dobrynin had exposure to many of the Kremlin's murkier minds, like Khrushchev and Brezhev. His clear discussion of their decisions and their ways of handling power yields an insight that could only have come from experience...
...Appropriations Committee will miss them. Senators Daniel Inouye and Robert Byrd, intrigued by stories of psychic successes, pushed hard during many years to keep Star Gate going. Tales of the effectiveness of psychics as spies have long been circulated. dia credited psychics with creating accurate pictures of Soviet submarine construction hidden from U.S. spy satellites, and a 1993 Pentagon report said psychics had correctly drawn 20 tunnels being built in North Korea near the demilitarized zone. "I'd close my eyes and clear everything from my mind," explains Joe McMoneagle, a Pentagon psychic from 1978 to 1984 who claims...
...supplied with older U.S. Army gear, General John Shalikashvili, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, notes that this could cause problems. "The training is not that easy if you give them U.S. or Western arms," he says. "They are now trained on and employ mostly former Soviet equipment." It may be smarter, defense officials say, to equip the Muslims with Soviet weaponry. (In the cold war's wake, Europe is awash in it.) Finally, the effort is likely to cost several hundred million dollars...