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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
and all-seeing, has acquired a new image in the West since the August
coup -- defanged, dismembered and demoralized, leaking secret files
and shyly selling tours of its headquarters to Americans for $30 a
pop.
Think again. The KGB, now renamed the Agency for Federal
Security, is quietly rebuilding its strength. Its role in the coup
was detailed yesterday during a parliamentary hearing, underscoring
concerns about what...
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KGB Targeted for Major Reform; New Leaders Face Problem of How Much Truth Should Be Told
The Washington Post
; The new leadership of the KGB will begin a major structural reform of the vast secret police apparatus that has for decades been the main organ of state control, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said today. With former KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov in jail and under interrogation for what appears
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After the fall, KGB getting strength back
The Boston Globe
; MOSCOW -- The KGB, once viewed as grim and impenetrable, sinister and all-seeing, has acquired a new image in the West since the August coup -- defanged, dismembered and demoralized, leaking secret files and shyly selling tours of its headquarters to Americans for $30 a pop. Think again. The KGB,
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The KGB: "they still need us." (Russia's Ministry of Security)
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
; ... impossible several years ago. For instance, two years ago Moscow News published an interview with Gen. Oleg Kalugin, whose revelations ... they did not put him in prison. In autumn 1992, the same Moscow News published an article by a chemist, Vil Mirsayanov, who revealed ...
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New chief talks tough on overhauling KGB
Chicago Sun-Times
; MOSCOW Can the man ousted as the Soviet interior minister by conservatives for being "too soft" hope to run the KGB? Vadim V. Bakatin, the new chief of the Soviet intelligence and security agency, sought Friday to show that he could be tough in putting what had been a "state within a state" onto
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KGB's chief begins drastic cuts Bakatin's goal: agency mainly for intelligence
The Boston Globe
; ... border guards, the KGB would amount to about 400,000 staff members, the head of the Russian KGB, Gen. Viktor Ivanenko, said at a news conference. They are well-trained and often well-armed. The agency's budget this year is around 5 billion rubles, he asserted ...
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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.
U.S. News & World Report
; ... KGB officials field tough questions on TV talk shows, in printed interviews and in frank meetings with factory workers. Pro-KGB news is salted throughout the media. In the city of Perm last autumn, goes one report, 15 local counterintelligence agents volunteered ...
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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)
U.S. News & World Report
; ... KGB, The Inside Story (HarperCollins). Gordievsky recently discussed the KGB's relationship with Mikhail Gorbachev with U.S. News European Senior Editor Robin Knight. Excerpts: Does the KGB still support Gorbachev? The KGB is a conservative force. It wanted ...
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The KGB: still a potent force.
U.S. News & World Report
; Two long shadows disappeared from Lubyanka Square in central Moscow last week. One was the shaft of darkness cast by a 14-ton statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Soviet secret police, which was hauled away by jubilant demonstrators after the coup collapsed. The other was the shadow of fear
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The secrets in the basement. (KGB records) (Special Report)
U.S. News & World Report
; For more than 70 years, the trail of some of the most enduring mysteries of the 20th century - from the fate of Raoul Wallenberg to the plot to kill Pope John Paul II - stopped cold at the front door of Lubyanka, the KGB's yellow-and-gray stone headquarters on Moscow's Dzerzhinsky Square. But now,
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