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)

From: Nieman Reports | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: Seeger, Murray | Copyright information

The KGB File of Andrei Sakharov Edited by Joshua Rubenstein and Alexander Gribanov Yale University Press. 448 Pages. $45.

During the decades of covering the Communist states of Europe, foreign correspondents were challenged to draw conclusions, make educated guesses, and deliver informed conjectures on the basis of modest hard evidence.

If correspondents in Washington deliver a story on 75 percent solid information and 25 percent on lesser evidence, that's nor...

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