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...Haig set the tone shortly after Reagan's Inauguration by vowing to "draw the line" against Soviet expansionism at El Salvador. Since then, Administration officials have periodically flogged the Red Menace, sometimes with unhappy results. The most notable diplomatic debacle occurred when the Administration promised to produce a Nicaraguan defector who would reveal evidence of outside control of the Salvadoran rebellion; the young soldier dutifully appeared before a group of American reporters and then denied the entire scenario...
According to a Sandinista military defector interviewed by TIME, the building of a Nicaraguan arms link to El Salvador began almost as soon as the victorious revolutionaries took power in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua in July 1979. Says the defector: "It took nine months to plan the operation. The arms that eventually went to El Salvador were first taken from our forces who fought against [Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle]. After the triumph, they were instructed to turn in their weapons, which were put in warehouses and held for shipment to El Salvador. Then it was discussed who would...
...mass expulsions than speculation began to mount that Mitterrand's decision was part of a concerted Western counterespionage effort made possible by the defection of a well-placed Soviet agent. Diplomats recalled that Britain's 1971 ouster of 105 Soviet personnel was triggered by a KGB defector who fingered his former colleagues. Moreover, the French acted a week after Britain threw out two Soviet diplomats and a journalist. In Rome a month earlier, Italian police had arrested the deputy director of the Rome Aeroflot office as he was obtaining microfilmed plans of NATO military positions in northeastern Italy...
...defector points the finger toward Moscow...
...lags behind in technical spycraft, it is second to none in human intelligence "assets." KGB Defector Aleksei Myagkov says that between 1969 and 1974, 1,500 West Germans were recruited by the Soviets as spies. No one knows how many Americans have been enlisted, but FBI officials are sure of one thing: KGB activity in the U.S. is on the rise. Says the FBI's O'Malley: "It is evident in the ever increasing resources deployed against us, in the unrelenting effort by the KGB to recruit agents from Government, business and science, and the growing voraciousness of the Soviet...