Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kalb, who once served as an NBC correspondentin Moscow, said the unrest in East Germany "isanother indication that the Soviet control of EastEurope as we know it is in the process of profoundchange...
...other professors said the turmoil in EastGermany may instead lead to fundamental changes inthe Soviet Union's policies toward the Easternbloc, as its allies accelerate the reform processstarted in Moscow...
Documents released this Saturday by the National Security Archive show that the FBI began to check librarians to discover "whether a Soviet active-measures campaign had been initiated to discredit the Library Awareness Program." Implicit in this request is the FBI's belief that any criticism of its programs is downright un-American...
Concerned about increasing criticism of the surveillance program, the FBI sent agents to library associations urging them to be aware of manipulative counter-intelligence agencies. The supposed Soviet campaign, the FBI wrote in an in-house memo, could not go "unchallenged...
...average citizen can't understand the necessity of these seemingly trivial investigations. The motive for beginning this long and costly investigation, however, was not a legitimate security concern, but J. Edgar Hoover's paranoia. The FBI had no probable cause and no evidence that librarians were tools of a Soviet conspiracy. Even more disturbing, Sessions still doesn't believe that FBI was doing anything out of the ordinary...