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…usly sought my advice on the Mandela matter. He suggested that we inquire whether there were any South African spies in Soviet Block prisons, and whether South Africa might be willing to release Mandela as part of a prisoner exchange among several countries. In the end, Sharansk...

…tor of the NSA and deputy director of the CIA, argued that the “vastness of the [American] intelligence ‘take’ from the Soviet Union, and the pattern of continuity going back years, | | Epst_9780451494566_2p_all_r1.indd 200 ® 9/30/16 8:13AM | | HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019688

… yeled chutz schoolmate from the kibbutz. We trained in the whole range of commando skills. We used not only Uzis, but Soviet-made Kalashnikovs and Gurionov machine guns. We worked with detonators and explosives. We staged raids on Israeli airfields. We conducted exercises using...

…out Russia and Boris Yeltsin, since President Clinton would not want to see a nuclear power like Russia slide back into Soviet rule, or anarchy (that view turned out to be wrong). Anyone market-weight European risk out of the expectation that “Trichet and Merkel will fix surely i...

…t (and enhance) the reputations of the incumbent officials. In this regard, I recall a joke that made the rounds of the Soviet dissident community when I represented several of them in the 1970s. It is set during the period of the Stalin Show trials, when a dissident is arrested...

…rial history. During its first 50 years, Israel plays a pivotal role in the confrontation of the United States and the Soviet Union and, in some senses, is hostage to the dynamics of these two countries. In other words, like the first two manifestations of Israel, the third find...

The Rise of the NSA | 201 even decades,” greatly diminished the possibility of Soviet deception so long as the NSA kept secret its sources. The NSA did not rely entirely on its own sensors for this global surveillance. It also formed intelligence-sharing alliances with key alli...

…orld free of nuclear weapons,” a movement whose momentum is reminiscent of the 1980s movement for a “nuclear freeze” —a Soviet-manipulated protest aimed at halting Ronald Reagan’s modernization of the American nuclear deterrent. Shultz, Kissinger, Perry, and Nunn should have fore...

…utions had to be carried through with violence. This led to the mass murders in the Nazi concentration camps and 1n the Soviet Gulags. In the mid war periods, the “Litfass columns” that were originally designed to carry advertising, became the outdoor galleries for the war of id...

…et our fire eat half of Israel” in a future war. And we could not assume this was mere rhetoric. Iraq had an arsenal of Soviet-made ballistic missiles. Called Scuds, they were not always accurate at long range. But they could reach Israeli towns and cities, and could carry not ju...

… As of this writing, I’m cautiously optimistic that the Al-risk message can save humanity from extinction, just as the Soviet-occupation message ended up liberating hundreds of millions of people. As of 2015, it had reached and converted 40 percent of AI researchers. It wouldn’t...

…000-page novel was first published and became an instant hit. HOUSE OVERSIGHT 030235 Rand, who had come to America from Soviet Russia with striking insights into totalitarianism and the destructiveness of socialism, was already a celebrity. The left, naturally, hated her. But as...

…sweater and a fully engaging smile. As [had learned from his entry in Wikipedia, he was born in a small village in the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldavia in 1960, and he had obtained his law degree from the All-Union Correspondence Law Institute in 1991. He opened his own law...