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1971 KGB Memo Alerts CPSU to Planned Western Anti-Soviet Campaign

On 13 January, 1971, KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov issued a memorandum to the Central Committee of the CPSU on the intensification of the activities of Moscow correspondents of foreign media to collect information from “antisocial elements” (Andrei Sakharov, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in particular) during preparations for the 24th Congress of the CPSU. TheContinueContinue reading “1971 KGB Memo Alerts CPSU to Planned Western Anti-Soviet Campaign”