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KGB by John Barron
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MR BARRON is a senior editor
of Readers Digesc and this
comes our in ? the style and !
arrangement of his book. But !
what at first sight might appear ;
to be a colourful compilation of !
Soviet cloak and dagger stories
is, in fact, the product of a very
serious investigation a sober
and valuable study of the extra-
territorial activities of the larg-
est and nastiest of all secret
services. The sensationalism lies !
in the subject, not in Mr
Barron's treatment of it.
The KGB, lineal successor of
Lenin's Chel:ta and Stalin's CPU,
is the fine flower of a conspira-
torial system of government, the ;
instrument throogh which the. :
Soviet leadership maintains
! itself in power. Its present chief,
Mr .A.ndropov, sits on the Polit-
buro presided over by Mr
Brezhnev. Before he became !
head volice.man Andropnv
secured his niche in the hall of
shame when, as Ambassador to
ITung.ary in 1956, he double-
crossed Imre Nagy and laced
General Maleter with promises ;
of negotiation and assurances of ?
safe conduct to his death.
Mr Barron has performed a !
useful service by surveying in its ;
entirety the huge and costly
apparatus commanded by this ;
disgusting man, thus exposing.'
the organic connection between
the bread and butter activity ?
of his array of domestic opera- ,
rives, which is straightforward
repression, and the high fantasy
which marks so many of the
7.7Z.G3's exploits outside Russia.
Thanks to the courage and per-
sistence of a handful of Soviet
critics of the regime, we have
lately been given more than a I
glimpse of the sheer weight of !
this hidden body as it presses on
the iiyA.fs 01= every So?net
What could he more tellotla
than the abject .so;cta.cle of !
high soutzdino pro:fassional I
orgaaiSatio?os -- from the
derny r-f Sciences to the Union ;
of Writers?instantly, at a ?word !
from the. 7.:1GB, yurning on some ;
of. their most clist.in.?stisheci !
inern'aers. denouncing them in ;
tvrius of The ou:ter,
them- of thair ii!:;:ols
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is applied to the businiSi-iif
espionage.. subversion, sabotage,
disinform-ation, throughout the
globe.
. There are a ,reat many facts
TheKGB aoparatui with its
formidable hierarchy of Chief
Directorate-s divided into inoti-
rne.rable :special departments
covering every correi-rable field.
of destructive activity is laid .
open and exposed in detail.1
Many hundreds, of agents are'
named. The bare-bones of the,
organisation are given flesh by;
vignettes of routine activities;
selected to illustrate the moral.
climate in which it operates.
But this is only a .be-gir-aing.;
Mr . Barron's ,main ?concern is
to illustrate with ?-? carefully
chosen. episodes the whole
gamut of the KGB's compulsiv.e,
sometimes insane industry.
These range from major politi-
cal intervention:: in tune.ttle.d
.tarts of the world to the
'laborious and infinitely patient
:cornororoising, with a view to
blackmail of a senior French
diplomat with a taste for girls;
?from exercises in classical,
? espionage, such os the one which;
resulted in the socce-.s.ful peneo
tration of the strongroom of the
headqoarters of the American
communications system for
Europe, to the inside story of ;
various assassination attempts
some successful, some not.
But Mr Barron brings the :
KGB directly into our own life, ;
too, as he .:holv.1 their ageoes.,..di?;-? ?
guised us diplomats, suparvising.
the systemattc feeclin;,; of false.
?information, the wi,,^ing, of the
confidence of highly piaced
individuals by fiattering their
vanity, the seduction of harmles-s
girl secr:_steries?ali for Lenin
and Mr Brezhnev.
Much of Mr Darron's *infor-
mation has been 2.Yallabie in
bits and pieces before now hut
there is a very creat deal that
is nt.o.4. Ii e hn.: had occess to
KGB defectors Who have tiev?-r
before spoken ro.r.fo:7y, and he
has 1).2en 11.:
the Loiii-
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Powt:rs. tIe k? so acer,rao-
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P_s_ by definition, be prepared
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to act ruthlessly if a need
.re.garded by their bosses as
? critic-ally ? important arises.
,But in democracies the degree
of ruthlessness is restricted
? by what public and Parlia-
mentary opinion will stand
for; and, sooner or later. real
" dirty tricks " are almost
certain to be. brought to light.
? In dictatorships no such
? sanction exists, and horrible
acts have bean perpetrated
on the orders of tiny, all-
powerful caucuses.
In Tile Nazi Secret Service
(to he published on Thursday)
Andr?rissaud. a French journ-
alist of long experience in this
field and equipped with remark-
able per-sistence. recounts in full
about a dozen of the most
horrille incidents in the story of
the rise of Reinhard Fleydrich
to the command of Hitler's
directorate. of State Security
(R.S.11.A.) in October 1939 and
that of his close associate Walter
Schelleaberg to an extremely
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influentird positioa in the S.S.
Secret Service.
- M.'Brissand had an astonish-
stroke. of luck when, in
1952, a car breakdown in North
Italy led to his meeting Schelien-
berg, with whom he had long.-
ititervie.ws soon after he had
been released front prison as a
" war criminal" and shortly be-
fore he died of cancer. Schi????.11en-
berg evidently then spoke of his
past activities with unique
frankness, and M. Brissaud has
mode good use of what.he learnt
front him. '? '
? The book is neither a history
of the S.S. Secret Service nor a
bioraphy of irs 'chief characters
----thourrh their personalities
come through clearly er.ough. It
Is episodic, telliag or re-tellinz
storie.s such as that of " the night
of the long knives" (June 50.
,195-1) tvlo,a the S.S. slaughtered
about 500 of Hitler's possible
rivals, the Tilltrder of the anti-
Nazi radio operator Midolf
Forrnis in C7e.r.hc.slivakia Ia 1035.
the notorious Munich: Beer
Cellar booth attempt on Hitler in
1930 and the kid-
nappiTuz of the British az:ents
iet and Steven:, at Venfo Ia
(a. ter tite.y had acted
astouisliinLily ..na'f.?:-..,1y) in the
seine month.
Ttiough I dislike tit.s style of
such chaptee opc:nions as:
"ti.1ia hoot to boot. Scio?dleit-
hfs.rg and Caaaris (the hearl of
the Aly.vehr to? Militar.v Jotelli;
gence) brought their no.v.int5; to
ao.d ;;1 .'rut a hank
in which 1:-.)ng conversations
which ci-mnot has e been rerordc.ni
verl,atim at the time are repro-
duced in quol.ntiar. 1:e3::?%3. M.
i5 a comp.a!ent guide
?tlz:?ou.:,,h the nrar,lerons junle of
the viidOis.5 Gei'Matt
And tic acco;.:ots of the, 1.1.3r-
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methods and personadas of
Sovit!t Secret Service men are
remur Nazis.kahly s.intilar to those othe Nazis..
? Furthermore. Mr. Barra:: isalsofo
'a journalist and he has coiiecte.1
his evidence and told his t;:le. in
a manner very like that of M.
Brissaud.
In spite of the "thaw" which
followed 1:hrtischev's fatnons
expc,:;j of Stalin's wetitods at
the 20th ratty Congress: in _
February. 195(, the author is .
undoubtedly right to declare that
:he 1:.G.B. is still the very ,
foundation or Soviet societY:' -
and to claim that: little or
nothing has changed since tha 7
Stalin era. The. e:It:xis em-
ployed to find and ;rain agents; -
the inidtration into any area
where trotzble can he stirrer; it-,)
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(fro Mexico to Ulster), and
ruthless use of 1:lad:mail au:I -
physical threats azains: riny
person ut:wis,_. elintigit to hir..z.
r,ympromict:dhimself, still. go
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to story---oarnely -
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KGB: THE SECRET WORK OF SOVI-
ET SECRET AGENTS. By. John Bar-
ron. 462 pages. Reader's Digest Press.
$10.95. As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has so
vividly shown, one cannot begin to un-
.1derstand the Soviet Unicin without an
j intimate knowledge of its mammoth se-
cret-police system?the KGB and its nu-
' merous espionage branches (one was
newly formed in 1971 to infiltrate and
.; stifle internal Jewish dissent). John Bar-
ron, h former Naval intelligence officer
and award-winning journalist, demon-
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4 tr. s ates that the KGB's pervasive power
. touches not only the lives of Soviet citi-
zens?and leaders?but American lives as
well. A 1973 study showed a marked in-
? crease in the number of Russian agents
'in Western Europe over the last decade;
three out of every four accredited Soviet
' "diplomats" in NATO countries are re-
puted to be KGB operatives.
. Barron's coolly comprehensive, author-
itatively researched book is strongly per-
suasive. He reveals (often in the best
spy-novel prose) numerous cloak-and- .
dagger intrigues, many garnered from
notable defectors. He unveils bold KGB
? moves to "destroy" Mexico, subvert Gha-
na, and cripple the U.S. by recruit-
ing vast networks of spies. One of these
was Robert Lee Johnson, a disgruntled
Army sergeant who stumbled onto a
clutch of military secrets so juicy that
they were rushed directly to Premier
? Nikita Kbrushchev. In hard, geopoliti-
cal importance, this book outranks and
helps illuminate Solzbenitsyn's "The Gu-
lag Archipelago."
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KGB: THE SECRET WORK
OF SOVIET SECRET
AGENTS. By John Barron.
I Reader's Digest Press/Dut-
ton. 462 pp. $10.95.
? By 'JOSEPH C. GOULDEN
Kissinger and Brezhnev are
, locked in embrace on the
front page, and President
. Nixon lauds U. S.-Soviet de-
tente as a personal gem-
stone. But let us pause be-
fore we cheer: John Barron's
"KGB" is a chilling reminder
of the character of the peo-
ple who run the Soviet state,
enough to make one queasy
at the ascendancy of diplo-
matic pragmatism over com-
mon decency in our cew-
found friendship.
The KGB is the police-in-
? telligence agency conceived
by Lenin as the "sword and
? shield" of the - Communist
; Party, an apparat without
parallel elsewhere in the
world.
At home, it is the "basic
means of regulating Soviet
thought, speech and behavior,
of controlling the arts, sci-
ence, religions, education, and
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the press, police and mili-
tary." Through the KGB,
Soviet rulers tell citizens
where they may live, work,
study and travel.
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THE KGB RUNS the prison
camps Alexander Solzhenit-
syn described in "The Gulag
Archipelago" (and sent him
into exile for so doing). The
KGB has a special "Jewish
Department" (a charmingly
reminiscent title) to curtail
emigration to Israel. The
KGB, writes Barron,.is the
"principal force" through
which Soviet rulers "sustain .
rheir dictatorship over the :
Soviet people and try to pro- -,
ject it into other societies."
.Abroad, the KGB is a spy
agency that uses murder,
disinformation. and entrap-
ment to further Soviet aims.
My sole quibble is that Bar-?
ron at times gives the KGB
more credit than it deserves.
One episode of which 1 hap- ?
pen to have first-hand knowl- -
edge is the student disturb-
ances in Mexico ? ,events
With more deep-rooted causes .
than the machinations of Oleg
the KGB's
xi/an in Mexico in the 1960's.
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NO. MATTER. Barron, an
editor of Reader's Digest, had
the help of the CIA and other
secret servicosterview-
ing defectors who give an '
insider's-look at the KGB. ?
The result is a combination of
? fast-paced journalism and
? meticulous. schalarship.
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We have the minutiae of !
training; the tedium. of a
rezident posing as a na-
tive-born American as he .
spies in the U. S.:. the
-strains (reflected in adultery
and drunkenness) in a Soviet
embassy where as many as
75 percent of the "diplomats"
and wives Are KGB agents.
as bent upon spying upon one
another as the host Country.
Barron's breign spy ac-
counts, for all their fresh, au-
thentic detail, had less im-
pact upon me than his de?
scription of what the KGB -
does to its own people. And
the bosses of the KGB. let it
be remembered, are our new
partners in detente..
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Joseph G. Goulden is a
Washington-based writer
whose next booh will be a
study of the American judici-
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The real rulers of Russia
C. KGB
? The Secret Work of Soviet
Secret Agents.
By John Barron.
Illustrated. 462 pp. New York:
Readers Digest Press.
? zhinsky. Now tne
stronger than ever,
of its members sit
the Politburo; If it
seems as terrible
Stalin, that is largely because es which it invests in these ? lute control over rewards and
it has so grown into Soviet foreign adventures. Rather, it punishments. In no country
society that it can afford to is its even greater investment dries such a class rise naturally:
"the wasteful in re session at home. Foreign- in Russia it was created by
K.ti.B. is a certain conventional= legal-. ?bourgeoisie, workers, peas-
and three macy. No doubt similar stories ants?But a "New Class" of
openly in could, be told of the C.I.A. , bureaucrats and party workers
no longer What *makes the K.G.B. so- which, havins, once installed it-
as under sinister is not the huge resourc- self in power, exercises .7177,50-
. dispense withp
: mass murder of former times." hers observe, and resent,- the revolution, in Eastern Europe
Its new sophistication is a sign K.G.B.'s palpable interference it . was iriiposed by conciuest.
By HUGH TREVOR-ROPER
of new strength. , in their affairs, the grotesque But once in power, by bureau-
' How the K.G.B. functions, over-staffing of Russian embas-
- cratic centralism, the abolition.
how it uses its unchallenged, sies and delegations abroad. of legal guarantees, and 1:I/-
arbitrary ?power, is the subject But. as Mr. Conquest points qualified "reason of state," it.
of Mr. Barron's book. He has out in his' Introduction, "the can perpetuate itself against all
produced a remarkable work of major part of the K.G.B.'s ef- comers. With time, and in a
synthesis. In spite of a some.- fort, the greater number of its rigorously controlled society,
what diffuse and journalistic employes, are used in the mas- the rewards and punishments
style and a love . of dramatic sive and continuous work themselves can be reduce-Jr
reconstruction (always suspect against its own populations." bribery becomes trivial, black-
h 1 th Moreoi,?er, it is there, naturally mail is expressed in mere hints,
What is the basic strength,
of Soviet Communism, the pow-
er which animates and sustains
that huge fabric? It is not what
we once thought it to be. The
original appeal of Communism
was material, moral and ideo-
logical. It claimed to improve
the welfare of the workers,
to restore their self-respect,
and to do so in tune with his-
torical necessity. In fact, 50
years after the Revolution, real
wages had hardly regained the
level of 1913; rural serfdom,
abolished by the Czars, has
been reimposed; and the ideolo-
gy convinces no one. What the
Bolsheviks have created is a
. : new system of power: Pinver
that has no basis in society, no
reference to consent, no moral
? justification. We used. to think
that Lenin gave to Marxism a
temporary political form; now
we recognize that he used
Marxism as the temporary ideo-
logical justification of a new
structure of naked political
power.
The 'essential motor of that
structure is now the Secret
Police. Lenin's Cheka, Brezh-
nev's K.G.B., is the .effective
sovereign in the Russian state.
It is stronger than the party,
it controls the organs of state.
It is above the law. Account-
able to no one, it can destroy
anyone. Even Stalin only ruled
by dividing it and murdering its
successive heads. Yagoda and
book inspires confidence. It is enough, that it is most success-
based on evidence supplied by ful. Abroad, its failures have
several non-Communist security been more conspicuous than its
services and "all post-war
K.G.B. defectors except two."
It is authenticated by Mr.
Robert Conquest, one of the
greatest authorities on Russian
affairs. I have no doubt that it
is as accurate -a 'general study
of the K.G.B.'s secret activities
as we are likely to get. It is
also the work of a highly in-
telligent man who can analyze
and explain as well as gather
and narrate. ?
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Many of Mr. Barron's chap-
ters describe individual espion-
age operations .carried out by
the K.G.B. abroad, .as related
by its defectors. We can read
of the subversive activities of
Vladimir Sakha.rov in the Mid-
dlee East, the penetration of the 'engine of repression against its
secrets of N.A.T.O. by means of own people; and no people in
the American traitor Robert Lee the world has tolerated such a
Johnson, the quest of Amen- tyranny..
can secrets through the Finn- How is it done? By what
ish-American Kaarlo Tuorni, mechanism does "a tiny
the successful extension of di- oligarchy," whosc leadership is
rect Soviet power over ? Cas- at the mercy of internal -gang
tro's Cuba, the unsuccessful ef- warfare, so cow a whole
forts to subvert governments in people? This is the most Im-
portant political question raised
by the existence of the K.G.B.
Mr. Barron is well aware of it,
and touches on it, if too lightly,
It deserves to be brought out
and emphasized: for it is the
central mystery of totalitarian
successes. It has failed in Mexi-
co, in Egypt, throughout Black
Africa. Its agents desert in a
continuous-stream, and are ex-
pelled in periodic shoals. But
at home it'is irresistible. W,ith
70,000 full-time censors it
stamps on literature. Even bus
tickets must be passed by the
censor. With an army of in-
former, it inhibits conversa-
tion; By means of internal pass-
ports it controls movement. It
has turned the Russian Ortho-
dox Church hierarchy into its
agents to peevert religion. With
concentration camps and "psy-
chiatric institutes" it stifles
thought. No government in his-
tory has used so monstrous an
Yezhov. His successors similar- Mexico and Africa, the arrest
ly murdered Berle. Khrushchev in Russia of Professor
tried, but failed, to escape from Barghoorn, the attempts to
dependence on it. He abolished compromise, and so afterward
its Special Bureau for Asses- to use, a British member of
sination, but had to revive it Parliament and a French am-
three months later, and ended hassador. These are readeble.
? ? by setting up a public statue of
spy stories, and others could be power..
its founder, the terrible Deer- added to them. However. it is - Mr.' Barron agrees with the
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But whether the system is op-
erated crudely, as under Stalin,
or more subtly, as now, the
background of terror -is essen-
tial. Without terror,. the system
could not be installed: without
the long shadow of terror, it
could not be Continued. For
this reason, our hope must be
that peagressive sophistication
will wear out the practice of
terror and destroy the cohesion
of the New Class. The heroes
of this book are the defectors
whO have begun that process:.
the men who, in the end, could
not endure "the daily squalor"
of a system by which they
have profited but which- has
ultimately repelled them be-
cause it has no moral base.ri
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By JERRY GREENE
Washi?gt on, March 23?Secretary of State
Kissinger's long arm of detente, wh:.ch he will
be stretching again in Moscow rext -week,
hasn't yet reached far enough to encompass
the subject of espionage and subversion?the
one danger area that could do with a lot of
cooling.
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There are responsible officials here who are con.
vinced that a substantial cutback in Russian espion-
age operations would do more to safeguard world
peace than a massive reduction in nuclear missiles.-
. However, since the world's governments do not-
noi-mally admit publicly that they maintain extensive
spy organizations. much less sabotage networks, it
can be understood that Kissinger will never have ? in the American intelligence commnnity. With this
mentioned the matter to Leonid Brezhnev, the Com- unofficial stamp of approval, the book thus becomes
munist Party boss. He won't be bringing up a frightening. compilation of horeor writing, a grim
this question as an item for the agenda on Presi- warning to those who might think it can't happen
dent Nixon's next Moscow junket. here. It is happening here. Today.
? Barron N.:rote?and it is olv.ious that he had
? . An Inside Look ? . wholesale cooperation from American agencies--
This is a pity, for-in their own peculiar way that while Soviet bosses seek detente, they expand
of blowing hot and cold in the same breath, the "clandestine KGB agg-ressions that make a mockery
Russian intelligence people are as busilv. engaged of normal, stable, mutually beneficial international
in undermining detente today as their bosses are raiatiaas,"
in promoting "peaceful coexistence" at the White He laid out names, dates and places to show
Hyuse level.- thow the Soviets have set machinery in motion to
? Kisseager, of course, knows the dirty facts, yet use expanded trade relations for promotion of
(Reader's Digest/E.P. Dalton & Co., New York:
$10.95). ?
This is a definitive study, remarkably up to date,
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a 462-page warning against the furtive, creeping
and crawling Soviet netherworld built to keep the
Kremlin bosses in power aad to direct the Russian
imperial drive for world domination.
With due apologies to the author, we did a little
personal checking on ins work and found that it
is given highest marks fpr accuracy and authenticity
must keop moving toward global liar:wiry anyhow. ulterior practices.
Now the rest of the public has ft chaace for a "While the Soviet leadership tries to negotiate
deep, inside-view of :hat goes on heneath the sur- ? a relaxation of tensions with the West," Barron
f?Eice .in a fascinating new_booli, "KGB: the Secret wrote, "the KGB plans to sabotage Western cities;
Work of 'Soviet Secret -.Agents," by Jo in Barron" encourages civil strife in -.-kraerica.? ?lots? to. incite.
? civil war in Mexico and Ireland; nurtures the Pales-
. tinian guerrillas in their warldwide terrorism;
strives to corrept and subvertWcstern officials and.
politicians; and, through a variety of .cieceits, vilifies
- the same nations whose . economic and political
? favors the leadership courts."
The author accurately called the KGB?the
? initials of the Russian words for Committee for
State Security?"a unique phenomenon of this
-century?' It might be compared ta a combination
of the FBI, the CIA, the Secret Service and all
other U.S. intelligence agencies with their own
private army, given total exemption front all consti-
? tutional restraints, operating at the whim of what-
? ever political group should have momentary domi-
.. Dance. ?
? Almost Caused War
The KGB came close to provoking a eivil war
in Mexico in 197I?the sarse year that Britai.n,
alarmed' at potential dangers. clamped down on the
? Russians and kicked oat 305 Kt; c?ffieers and
agents in one giant -sweep. Bitrron reoites the details.
The U.S.A. was and is the No. 1 tai.get of the
KGB; Western intellzence offiei.ra obtained a top-
- secret training manual spelling oat methods end
.? objectives. And these are by no means immodest.
The manual said: 'The lasic tara-ets of our ae?ent
penetration (opcint;iws) are as l're!?-t-
dent's cat:inc.', the National Security Ciemod.
State Dena:talent . . . th?-: 1)--partnIvIt
? or arc: the ... the
As,:ociat:on af :Innufactarcrs and the most :im-
portant manaaalies and 1.anhine Leeses..."
Nobody has blee.at a w hi5 :le far an armlstioe
"??in th,s i?hadow war. Tile Ameriean public aia;at
to know :Wont it. ' .
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(KGB). With its breedth of U.S. Army counter-intelli-
experience, extensive re- gence. Jehnson was not
.sources, and range of tar- even suspected until years
, gets, the KGB has few ri- later vrhen the FBI ques-
Pi !Vats in history. tioned his wife after he de-
' Organized during the serted. Her incoherent "baa-
chaos that ensued after the bling, about her traitor
November, 1917, Bolshevik husband" and "Russian
Revolution, the Cheka spies" led to Johnson's ar-
(secret police) quickly be- rest, trial, and conviction in
1965. The bizarre case firo.d-
came the most powerful
organization in the Soviet ly ended in 1972, when John-
Union.
son's only son, a Vietnam
.
veteran, visited his father
AUTHOR John Barron at a federal penitentiary.
says that because the pres- Walking up to greet the
l ervation of the Soviets' prisoner, the son plunged a
i I power depends so upon the knife into his chest, killing
'KGB, the Soviet leaders him.
have vested it with re- .
sources, responsibilities, IN A CIULLING analogy
and authority never before that illustrates the rationale
-concentrated in a single for using violence in some
organization. of the KGB operations, a
. ? After four years of re- KGB officer-instructor ex-
? ',search that included high- plained to one of his sne-
'level cooperation from the dents: "You must absolute-
;FBI, CIA, and foreign ly understand the morality
counter-intelligence serv- of stec.s.ialist intelligence. You
. ices, Barron here fccuses on must think of hurna.nity.
the KGB opeations directed All a.:..s that further history
? at influencing and subvert- and socialism are moral
; ing foreign governments. acts."
During his research, Bar-
Barron dces not foresee
ion was able to contact, the Soviets mitigating the
with only two exceptions, KGB's influence or opera-
every KGB defector and tions. In the spirit of detente
.i former agent, and he has that is celebrated in the
re-told their stories in a 'West, the KGB has already
;fast-paced narrative, tightened its grip on the
: Barron describes elabo- domestic society. Barron
? rate operations in the Mid- says that at this time, when
east, Mexico, Latin Amen- the Soviets are desperate
:ca., the U.S., and Europe. for foreign technology and
: One of the most interesting commercial benefits, goy-
' operations involved Sgt. ermnents should not aceorn-
Robert Lee Johnson of the modate the Soviets by keep-
:U.S. Army. Initially con- ing KGB foreign oper-a-
itacted by the KGB in the tions under wraps. The
. early 50s in Germany, John- Russians would probably
? son became one of the call the wholes-,le expulsion
? KGB's best sources for clas- of KGB agents operatinc,
sified documents. After out of ernlets