Word: sovietizers
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...prop from the Get Smart set but rather a covert Soviet listening device that dates to the 1960s. Planted in the heel of a target's shoe, it could monitor conversations...
...friend, who would not let me print his name but volunteered he studied spying with ?Volodya? Putin (an affectionate nickname for the Russian President who earned his stripes in the KGB) and Sasha Lebed (another prominent Russian politician) in the old Soviet days, leaned over to give me the plot. Ostravak is a drinking buddy of his from another bar, a real writer who pens the diary based on stories he hears in pubs. "I promised not to tell his name. I give you some hints, or even better I'll arrange for you to meet...
...report said Columbia envisions an espionage thriller "exploring the collision between the deep rooted Russian power structure enforced by the KGB ... and the new wave of wild west capitalism" that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union...
...Yeah. Been doing it for a while. The one thing that I see that I do see and that it goes back to the question, people say why do you talk to the Soviet Union is that what we were able to establish with the Soviet Union was a strong position of leverage over time. Whether it was sanctions that not only were aimed at Soviet military power, but at Soviet hi-tech. I remember once saying to someone, (inaudible) doesn't have a lot of phones. You go into an office in the Kremlin, there are 10 phones...
...strongest military alliance in history. And we talked not just with the Soviet Union but to people in Srebrenica and the dissidents and made it possible for people who wanted to challenge the system, to challenge it. I think Iran will be different. The formula for dealing with Iran, it will be different. But I do know that if Iraq emerges as a stable Shi'a-led, non-theocratic democracy, but that's a real problem for Iran. It's a real problem for its legitimacy, with Najaf being in Iraq and it's a real problem for its narrative...