THE KGB LAUNCHES A CHARM OFFENSIVE

The Boston Globe | June 10, 1990| | Copyright

MOSCOW - The green-uniformed guards salute crisply as they open the massive oak doors.

A red carpet leads up two flights of marble stairs, past highly polished wood doors, every one of them closed, some with complex locks visibly on the outside. The host, in his 60s, smartly dressed in a suit, white shirt and tie, smiles warmly, his eyes crinkling behind his horn-rimmed glasses.

"Welcome," says Gen. Alexander Karbayinov. "You have crossed the rather sharp border which is the perimeter of the KGB."

Of all the changes brought by glasnost, perhaps none is as astonishing as this: The ...

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