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Most of the wire services are available on-line. A variety of services, from the Associated Press to ITAR-TASS, are available at http://www.trib.com...
...Academie Francaise, famous for trying to purge the French language of creeping Americanisms such as "le weekend," has now been upstaged by Russia. In the southern city of Belgorod, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported today, authorities have imposed a tax on foreign letters used in advertisements and company names. Writing with non-Russian letters will cost owners 500 times the minimum monthly salary -- about...
Varenik was a KGB brat--the son of a KGB colonel--and a graduate of the Andropov Red Banner Institute, which trains intelligence agents. He spent a year working at the TASS offices in Moscow preparing for his cover job. His first contact with the cia came a year after his arrival in Germany in 1981. A colleague introduced him to a CIA officer, and for more than a year, each believed he was cultivating the other as a possible double agent. Varenik abruptly broke off discussions in 1983, but the cia had passed him a secret telephone number...
...ensuing months, Varenik talked with CIA agents at hotels and later at a CIA safe house. If he wanted to meet, he would make a chalk mark on a utility pole that was on his route home from the TASS office. The CIA paid him $3,000 a month. He also received small gifts-a German encyclopedia, for example. He was prolific: his reports fill four drawers in a CIA safe. He described "false flag" operations in which KGB agents recruited Germans while pretending to be South Africans or Israelis...
Boris Yuzhin: A KGB officer working under cover as a San Francisco correspondent of the Soviet news agency TASS, Yuzhin began providing valuable information to American intelligence in 1978. He revealed the existence of the KGB's Group North, an alite unit of senior Soviet intelligence officers who specialized in recruiting American and Canadian targets worldwide...