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Among the Soviets sent packing were Nikolai Chetverikov, the third-ranking diplomat at the Soviet embassy, who was considered to be the head of all KGB activities in France; Oleg Shirokov, bureau chief of the official press agency TASS; and Vladimir Kulikovskikh, a TASS reporter. Forty of the group held diplomatic passports. Said a member of France's counterespionage agency, the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST): "Ten or 15 years ago, the Soviets instructed their young agents that France was no problem. Well, all that has changed. Now they'll have to send their best recruits...
...nature of this espionage network." At the center of the network in France is the Soviet embassy, a neo-Stalinist white marble bunker located near the Bois de Boulogne. The KGB also operates out of the ambassador's downtown residence, the trade mission, the consulate, Aeroflot offices, the TASS news agency and through Soviet delegations to international organizations like UNESCO...
...Brezhnev, the Moscow rumor mill last week was once again grinding away. The first major items of interest concerned the state of health and whereabouts of Communist Party Leader Yuri Andropov, 68. Then, as if tales of an Andropov illness were not intriguing enough, the official Soviet news agency TASS set off a new round of speculation with a terse two-line communique announcing the promotion of Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 73, to the post of First Deputy Premier...
...amiss with Andropov. During his first four months in office, the onetime KGB chief has lost weight. He has kept to a rigorous daily schedule, but after meeting with a delegation from Mozambique on March 2, he seemed to adopt an even lower profile than usual. Curiosity grew when TASS failed to print a summary of the weekly meeting of the ruling Politburo, as has been the custom recently, a possible indication that the gathering had been called off. But it was only after Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov returned to Moscow after an unusually short, 24-hour visit to Budapest...
...glossy 107-page Soviet Military Power, which is filled with photographs and artistic renderings of the latest Kremlin hardware, met with mixed reviews. The Soviet news agency TASS, which called the 1981 report "a barrage of irresponsible verbiage," predictably dismissed it as "the second edition of a lie." Some Administration critics on Capitol Hill, including Democratic Senators Edward Kennedy and Gary Hart, accused the Pentagon of "scaremongering" to defend its budget. But the public release of the comprehensive survey of Moscow's military might is a compelling reminder of the very real threat facing the West. It sets...