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30/92; Vietnam Admits K.G.B. Interrogated Ameri- of Bavarian Broadcasting and the Defa-Studio for Docu- (FBIS-EER, 8/23/91.)
can, NYT, 1/22/92; KGB Plan `Flopped, Ex-Official mentary Films aired on the German television show The government Commission of Inquiry Into
Says, WP, 1/22/92; Soviets Questioned 3 U.S. POWs Report on 3/2/91.] Police Files is working on a white paper on the
in Vietnam in 78, KGB Ex-Officer Says, WP, 1/3/92.) Newly available East German documents shed wrongful acts of the state security apparatus prior to
For a review of reports of U.S. soldiers who allegedly light on the fusion of SPD and KPD in the Soviet zone November 1989. Research continues despite the de-
disappeared on Soviet territory: Vladimir Abarinov, of Germany in 1946; article by Wolfgang Malanowski struction of 1,500 of the 1,700 archive units of the
The Sad Tale of American Captives, Independent details postwar pressures on East German Social Demo- former political police. Newspaper report alleges that
Newspaper, 4/10/92. crats to cooperate with Communists. Includes excerpts the Soviet KGB signed an agreement with its Bulgarian
Kalugin is also reported to be involved in starting from Harold Hurwitz s Fuehrungsanspruch und Isola- counterpart to gain access to all spheres of Bulgarian
a new Russian magazine, The Red Archives, that will tion der Sozialdemokraten and Zwischen Selbstta life, and includes information on the murder of Georgi
publish political commentary, fiction and previously uschung und Zivilcourage: der Fusionskampf (Co- Markov, the 1981 papal assassination attempt, and
secret government documents. ( K.G.B. Telltale Is logne: Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik). (Der Spiegel, other events. (FBIS-EER, 9/5/91.)
Tattling, But Is He Telling U.S. All? NYT, 1/20/92.) 9/24/90, 116, and 10/1/90, 127.) Reporter 7 quotes an unidentified ex-colonel of
Soviet diplomat recounts background to 1981 Former SED Central Committee member s diary the former state security forces as saying that journalist
incident in which Soviet submarine was discovered published, containing details of maneuvering inside Vladimir Kostov and emigre writer Georgi Markov
intruding in Swedish waters, triggering international East Germany party after Stalin's death. (Rudolf were wasted to teach the rest a lesson, and that
incident. (E. Rymko, Submarine 137, Herrnstadt, Das Herrnstadt Dokument (Reinbek: operations to kill them must have involved the Soviet
Mezhdunarodnaya Zhizn, Nov. 1991, 123-27.) Rohwolt Taschenbuch Verlag, 1990); see also Der KGB. (FBIS-EER, 9/6/91.)
New details on the 1983 Soviet downing of Ko- Spiegel, Walter, du hast Schuld, 6/11/90, 126, and The umbrella murder trial of former intelli-
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gence chief Gen. Vladimir Todorov begins. Todorov is NYT, 12/22/91.) Two Soviet accounts detail the inva- Opfer der Mauer: Die geheimen Protokolle des Todes
accused of destroying the police file of emigre writer sion plans: Leonid Kornilov, According to General (Munich: C. Bertelsmann Verlag, 1991); see also Der
Georgi Markov, murdered in London in 1978. Charges Dubynin, General Jaruzelski prevented the intervention Spiegel, 8/12/91, 102.
against former deputy interior minister Stoyan Savov of Soviet troops planned for December 14, 1981, Interviews with Soviet officials indicate October
were dropped after Savov was found shot dead. Former Izvestia, 3/16/92, 4; Maj.-Gen. (res.) Vladimir Dudnik, 1961 U.S.-Soviet tank standoff in Berlin was more
KGB officer Oleg Kalugin is expected to testify that Dark Room Secrets, Moskovski Novisti 14 (4/5/92), dangerous than previously believed. (Raymond L.
ten KGB agents carried out the murder. (FBIS-EER, 1/ 17; reprinted in Moscow News, English edition, 15 Garthoff, Berlin 1961: The Record Corrected, For-
9/92.) (3522), 12-19 April 1992, 13. eign Policy 84 (Fall 1991), 142-56.)
Jan Rokita, chairman of the Sejm s Commission
Czech and Slovak Federal Republic for Studying the Activities of the Internal Affairs Min- Cuban Missile Crisis
istry, MSW, 1981-1988, presents a report which ac-
Foreign Minister Jiri Dienstbier sees Soviet offi- cuses the ministry of improperly investigating 98 cases Former KGB agent in Washington Alexander
cials to arrange joint investigation of Moscow s inva- of mysterious deaths and holds the ministry responsible Feklisov recounts meeting with ABC correspondent
sion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, using CPSU Central for numerous unlawful acts, including murder and falsi- John Scali during crisis to pass message to U.S. admin-
Committee, Foreign Ministry, and KGB archives. fication of documents. (FBIS-EER, 10/10/91.) istration. (V.P. Krikunov, The Unknown Facts About
(FBIS-EER, 9/17/91.) the Outcome of the Caribbean Crisis, Voyenno-
Visiting Soviet foreign and interior ministers United States Istorichesky Zhurnal 10 (1990), 33-38.)
promise Czech officials that Moscow would intensify Khrushchev s correspondence with Castro dur-
efforts to locate documents in Soviet archives relevant President Bush signs legislation aimed at requir- ing the crisis. (Vestnik MID SSSR 24 (Dec. 1990).)
to the 1968 invasion. (FBIS-SOV-91-221, 11/15/91). ing declassification and publication of key State Depart- Ex-Soviet envoy analyzes crisis. (G.M. Kornienko,
President Vaclav Havel signs controversial ment documents no more than 30 years after date of New Facts about the Caribbean Crisis, Novaya i
screening ( lustrace ) law banning former communist creation and giving outside historical advisory panel Noveyshaya Istoria 3 (May-June 1991), 77-92.)
officials, secret police collaborators and former mem- more power to ensure integrity of declassification pro- State Department releases previously classified
bers of the People s Militia from top state posts for the cedures. ( Documents Law: 30 Years and Out, WP, 10/ Kennedy-Khrushchev correspondence from Oct.-Dec.
next five years. Federal Assembly chairman Alexander 31/91; Warren F. Kimball, letter, NYT, 10/9/91.) 1962. ( The Cuba Missile Crisis: Kennedy Left a
Dubcek refuses to sign the law. (FBIS-EER, 10/22/91.) Chairman of historians watchdog panel urges Loophole, NYT, 1/7/92.) Columnists report that still-
In December 1991, the head of the Czech govern- passage of new law on declassification, explains politi- classified documents show that only in 1983 did the
ment commission to analyze the years 1967-1970 cal obstacles. (Warren Kimball, Re: the State Depart- State Department close a loophole in the U.S. pledge
received archival documents, mainly coded diplomatic ment Historical Advisory Committee, The Society for not to invade Cuba. ( Secrets of the Cuban Missile
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