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...Every time they can't verify something, they say, 'Let's assume he's telling the truth.' "U.S. military contractors now employ 10,675 émigrés from Communist countries who have been cleared by security agencies or are in the process of being cleared. Among those are 121 Soviet émigrés with top-secret clearance, giving them access to information that the Pentagon says can cause "exceptionally grave damage to national security...
...microelectronics, computers and signal-processing techniques. "Science and technology is the largest growth industry" in espionage, says Edward O'Malley, an FBI assistant director in charge of the intelligence division. Some recent examples: a Northrop engineer pleaded guilty in March to attempting to transmit Stealth technology to the Soviets for $55,000; the husband of a worker at a Silicon Valley defense firm used his wife's access to sell high-tech documents on ballistic-missile research to Polish intelligence for some $250,000; and in a trial that began last Friday in Los Angeles, Svetlana and Nikolai Ogorodnikov...
...superpower leader with an eye for a photo opportunity and a knack for communicating with the folks out there? A surprising answer could be found last week on Vremya, the Soviet nightly news program, when photographs of Mikhail Gorbachev suddenly filled the screen. There was the 54-year-old General Secretary of the Communist Party, strolling around Moscow, laughing heartily with workers, shaking hands. Now he was sharing a cup of tea in a young couple's apartment, now vigorously pressing the flesh in a factory, now touring a hospital, a classroom, even a supermarket. In all, Gorbachev spent about...
...social ease made a great impression on the four Congressmen, including Speaker of the House Thomas (Tip) O'Neill Jr., who were invited to a meeting with Gorbachev in the Kremlin two weeks ago. One of the visitors, Republican Congressman Silvio Conte of Massachusetts, made detailed notes about the Soviet leader that make him sound remarkably like Washington's own Great Communicator. Gorbachev's greeting to his visitors, noted Conte, was almost fulsome. He had been well briefed by aides, and spoke through an interpreter from color-coded typed notes. He made his points firmly, often with emotion...
...Soviet leader appeared to Conte to have an impressive familiarity with things American. Gorbachev said that he had studied U.S. law, and he claimed to have read a 600-page Hoover Institute book, adding, "I noticed many ideas that this Administration is taking." He was not impressed, he said, with the men surrounding the President, calling them "narrow-minded" and benefiting "them selves and not the national interest...