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Ex-Olympics head 'worked with KGB'
Paris :: France | 1 day ago
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Antonio Samaranch, the former head of the International Olympic Committee, worked in close association with the KGB, a new book claims. The authors of The KGB Plays Chess even allege Mr Samaranch may owe his election to the top Olympic job to the spy...
Tags: Mr Samaranch, KGB, IOC, Vladimir Popov, Spain, France, Paris, Olympics, International Olympic Committee, Francoist Spain, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish nobility, Entertainment Culture
The accidental uprising: How 'corpse' killed Communism
Prague :: Czech Republic | 4 days ago
Credibility For the past two decades, 17 November has been a national holiday in the Czech Republic. It is the day that marks the beginning of the Velvet Revolution of 1989 that brought down the Communist dictatorship which for 40 years had run Czechoslovakia, the...
Tags: Prague Spring, Martin Smids, Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel, Ludvik Zifcak, KGB, Peter Uhl, Wenceslas Square, velvet revolutions, Czech Republic, Prague, Theatre of the Absurd, Vￃﾡclav Havel, Velvet Revolution, Eastern bloc, Protests, Foreign relations of the Soviet Union
Directory enquiry firm suffers 70pc profit slump
Cardiff :: United Kingdom | 11 days ago
Credibility Profits at Conduit, the Irish company that operates the 11850 directory enquiry service, slumped 70pc to €1.3m last year as revenue fell almost 10pc to just over €51m. Owned by investment group Investcorp and US group KGB , Conduit has its base in Dublin...
Tags: KGB, directory enquiry, United Kingdom, Cardiff, Investcorp, Electrical conduit, Eircom, BT Ireland, Conduit, Web syndication, Widgets, Business Finance
Bulgaria Remembers Dissident Writer Georgi Markov
Sofia :: Bulgaria | 12 days ago
Credibility Bulgaria will mark with an event at the National Theater the 80th anniversary since the birth of Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian émigré broadcaster and a dissident writer, who was poisoned in London in 1978. The jubilee evening is organized by the Association...
Tags: Georgi Markov Those, Association of Bulgarian Writers, Bulgarian Secret Service, Communist Bulgaria, bulgarians secret, KGB, dissident writer, London, remembers dissident, writer georgi, Bulgaria, Sofia, Francesco Gullino, Todor Zhivkov, Ricin, Hristo, Georgi, BBC World Service, Georgi Markov, Eastern bloc
Ex-KGB spy shot dead in Moscow
Moscow :: Russia | 23 days ago
Credibility Shabtai von Kalmanovich, who had been convicted in Israel for being a KGB spy, died at the scene, investigators from the state prosecutor's office said on Monday. Kalmanovich, who was well known in Russia as a concert promoter and basketball sponsor,...
Tags: Moscow Photo, Shabtai Kalmanovich, Israeli, KGB, kgb spy, Shabattai Kalmanovich, Shabbatai Kalmanovich, Russian, shot dead, unidentified gunmen
Canadian court orders ex-KGB officer out
Vancouver :: WA :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Canada's federal court has denied a Russian's appeal to stay in the country because of his background as a Soviet KGB intelligence officer. The court in Vancouver sided Tuesday with Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan to deport Mikhail Lennikov, 48,...
Tags: Mikhail Lennikov, Canada, KGB, kgb officer, Vancouver
Feds dragging feet on Lennikov documents: MP
Vancouver :: Canada | 2 months ago
Credibility Former KGB agent Mikhail Lennikov, left, and MP Peter Julian talk with reporters in a Vancouver church on Tuesday. (CBC) The federal government is stalling when it comes to releasing critical documents about former KGB agent Mikhail Lennikov, a British...
Tags: Mikhail Lennikov, kgb agent, Canada Border Services Agency, KGB
TED KENNEDY; THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY
The Good For a man that was born into wealth, fame & status, Ted Kennedy worked as indefatigably in the Senate to earn his stripes, as he did for the many causes of the poor & downtrodden in this country. He made his mark not by seeking protections...
Tags: Ted Kennedy, Universal Healthcare, Social Class, Senator, Immigrants, Immigration Act of 1965, Citizenship, Abortion, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Catholic League, Soviets, KGB
Anne Applebaum: Russia and Europe in the Obama Era
On Wednesday, July 22nd, Washington Post and Slate columnist and Pulitzer-prize winning author Anne Applebaum came to San Francisco to speak with the World Affairs Council about ‘Russia and Europe in the Obama Era.’ While this topic is not...
Tags: anne applebaum, russia, europe, united states, washington post, council of world affairs, world affairs, world politics, politics, san francisco, putin, bush, obama, iran, iraq, afghanistan, russian politics, sarkozy, kgb, medvedev, kremlin, free speech, riot, jetset extra
Was Hemingway a KGB spy?
Ernest Hemingway, as we all know, won the Nobel Prize in 1954 for his novel ‘the Old Man and the Sea’. Another of his masterpieces is ‘for whom the bell tolls’. It has now been revealed that he was a KGB man in America but could...
Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize in 1954, the Old Man and the Sea, kgb, the argo
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