KGB
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
KGB see secret police .
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... literature at Leningrad University. He volunteered for the KGB-a natural gesture, he said, for an ideologically committed ... journalism department, but he now says it was part of his KGB training: "Learning American customs and habits and so ... if Yakovlev would approve of his call to dismantle the KGB in ...
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Moscow's big stick: amid the chaos of a disintegrating society, the KGB is amassing new powers and wielding ever greater political and economic influence.
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... safety in Moscow suggests the Soviet leader is heeding the KGB's concerns. Most startling for average Soviet citizens has been the KGB's aggressive public-relations campaign, coordinated by ... around the block to avoid walking past Lubyanka, the KGB's brooding mid-Moscow headquarters, in whose ...
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New KGB Chief Starts Purge of Secret Police;`Vicious State Within State' Denounced
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... of Lubyanka, the KGB headquarters, to select a "Miss KGB 1990." "I guess they think I'll be the new face of the KGB," the winner, Katya Mayorova, said in an interview at ... Yakovlev. He said that perhaps the biggest sin of the KGB was that it constantly created an imaginary, manipulative ... and the ...
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KGB Chief Wins Reappointment From Legislature;Soviet Deputies Pepper Vladimir Kryuchkov With Tough Questions About Security Agency
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KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov won reappointment today from the ... history of the Soviet state security service. The spectacle of a KGB chief enduring what amounted to a Western-style confirmation ... Yeltsin, in full view of the television cameras, charging the KGB with having caused "tremendous moral damage" ...
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'The KGB decided to stop Gorbachev': a high-ranking KGB defector discusses his old agency's role in glasnost and perestroika. (Oleg Gordievsky) (interview)
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A high-ranking KGB defector discusses his old agency's role in glasnost ... perestroika For 23 years, Oleg Gordievsky rose through the KGB to the rank of colonel. But for his last 11 years as ... 1985, a few months after he was promoted to head of the KGB station in London, he defected. Last year, with ...
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KGB Security Apparatus Coming Under Intense Scrutiny
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... Russian legislators kept a careful eye out for the infamous KGB Dzerzhinsky division, the crack military unit that carried ... Popov said. "We need a drastic reorganization of the KGB system. It has to be made truly accountable to the parliament ... prevent "further disaster." Vladimir Kryuchkov, the former ...
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KGB Targeted for Major Reform; New Leaders Face Problem of How Much Truth Should Be Told
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The new leadership of the KGB will begin a major structural reform of ... Mikhail Gorbachev said today. With former KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov in jail and under ... failed military coup, Gorbachev has put the KGB's thousands of crack military troops and ...
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The coverage of Soviet dissidents by Western journalists: KGB memos about Andrei Sakharov reveal the government's increasing fear of him as his ideas received press attention in the West.(The KGB File of Andrei Sakharov)(Book review)
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... record of dry, haunted, bureaucratic memoranda from the KGB chiefs to the Central Committee, Communist Party' of ... assumption most accepted by correspondents was that the KGB could do pretty much what it wanted with the targets ... perfect candidates for the definition of insanity used by KGB boss Yuri ...
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KGB targeted Latin America, book reveals
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KGB Man Turned British Spy Can't Pinpoint His Betrayer
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A former KGB colonel who was a top double agent for British ... May 17, 1985, the day Gordievsky says the KGB suddenly ordered him to return to Moscow from ... someone other than Ames initially made the KGB suspicious of Gordievsky. Gordievsky said ...
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After the fall, KGB getting strength back
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MOSCOW -- The KGB, once viewed as grim and impenetrable, sinister ... Americans for $30 a pop. Think again. The KGB, now renamed the Agency for Federal Security ... hearing, underscoring concerns about what the KGB's successor could be capable of doing without ...
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Gorbachev giving KGB a bigger role
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... has been expanding. Intelligence reports say that the KGB appears to be taking over more responsibility for conducting ... but their authority appears to be declining, with the KGB picking up the slack, according to one foreign expert ... appointment of several additional new deputy chairmen of the KGB, with ...
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KGB Defector Tells of Soviet Bugging Operation in U.S.
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... Moscow. On the Agee affair, the authors quote from a KGB file that said Inside the Company was crafted jointly by the KGB and Cuba's DGI intelligence service. The self-congratulatory KGB file on the [Agee] book claims, doubtless with some exaggeration ... together with the Cubans,' the book says. Service A ...
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