the KGB, were blazing at hours when their offices were often mostly dark. Like every foreign correspondent in the city, Mr. Doder heard rumors that Soviet leader Yuri Andropov was severely ill.

the KGB, were blazing at hours when their offices were often mostly dark. Like every foreign correspondent in the city, Mr. Doder heard rumors that Soviet leader Yuri Andropov was severely ill.

(READ MORE: The Kremlin’s Dupe: Ted Kennedy’s Russia Romance) Kengor revealed to Levin a secret letter by Kennedy to then-Russian KGB leader Andropov, looking for ways to “counter the ...

Pacepa (2006) stated that the KGB drafted the Palestinian National Charter and handpicked the 422 members of the PLO council that approved it. Andropov told Pacepa, “We needed to instill a Nazi ...

Under the likes of Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev and Yuri Andropov, the Soviet Union was ... was an agent of the KGB, an argument Sosonko believes is an oversimplification.

They later studied together at the Andropov Institute. Zhirnov is a former commander at the KGB, the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until December 1991. He has lived in France ...

Sometimes, they are as much about practicalities, even expedience. There was Yuri Andropov the KGB chief who succeeded Brezhnev in November 1982 instead of Konstantin Chernenko. Andropov realized ...

Stepan Chervonenko] told Andropov [then chairman of the KGB] in July 1981 that the leadership of the French Communist Party [PCF] had repeatedly and insistently proposed inviting the French ...