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...head of all KGB activities in France; Oleg Shirokov, bureau chief of the official press agency TASS; and Vladimir Kulikovskikh, a TASS reporter. Forty of the group held diplomatic passports. Said a member of France's counterespionage agency, the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST): "Ten or 15 years ago, the Soviets instructed their young agents that France was no problem. Well, all that has changed. Now they'll have to send their best recruits...
Over the past decade, the KGB presence in France has mushroomed. Between 1971 and 1981, the number of Soviet citizens residing in France rose from 1,000 to 2,406, while the count of official Soviet functionaries more than tripled from 200 to 700. DST officials estimate that about one-third of the total number are full-time agents of the KGB or the GRU, the military intelligence service. Says a former French counterintelligence officer...
According to U.S. officials, Soviet intelligence has given France priority because of the country's advanced aeronautical and nuclear weapons technology, as well as its "pivotal political role" in Western Europe. Mitterrand last month was shown a report prepared by the DST that claimed that the KGB has penetrated an estimated 30% of classified French military and industrial technology. Among prime espionage targets: advanced French aircraft carriers and the Exocet air-to-surface missile. Soviet agents have been prowling naval bases like Toulon, on the Mediterranean, which houses two carriers and the nuclear submarine Rubis...
...industrial data, turned himself in to French authorities. The agent, Matei Haiducu, 45, told officials of the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (the French secret service) that he had been ordered by Ceauşescu to kill Tanase and a second dissident writer, Paul Goma, 45. If the DST would protect his cover long enough for him to bring family members out of Rumania, Haiducu promised, he would tell all about his checkered past...
...with the East German Ministry for Security, which in 1972 successfully planted an agent, Günter Guillaume, as a close aide to West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. Guillaume spirited NATO defense and other secrets out of West Germany until his arrest in 1974. Last year French counterintelligence (the DST) broke up a spy ring that gave the Soviets information about the advanced Mirage-2000 fighter plane and NATO defenses. Israeli officials were shocked in 1972 when they deciphered the code used for radio transmissions between Cyprus, the KGB's Middle East headquarters, and Moscow, and discovered the Soviets...