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...sunny afternoon in central Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave on the Baltic, two private security guards and a trading-company executive strolled along a quiet street. They were expecting to meet a middle-aged man from St. Petersburg. In exchange for $1 million, they would hand over an 8-in. by 8-in. metal container holding highly radioactive material. But as the traders and their client were about to make their open-air swap in mid-August, 15 police officers rushed out to grab them. The police seized the 130-lb. case emitting gamma radiation. Until a specialized laboratory can examine...
Russia, facing a mounting outcry to keep its weapons-grade plutonium under tighter control, said it had arrested smugglers on its own soil. Police said they had detained three men Aug.12 in Kaliningrad, a western outpost on the Polish border, after they tried to sell a 132-pound container of the radioactive material for $1 million. The would-be buyers included Poles, Germans and Russians. The disclosure of the six-day-old arrests gave Moscow brief cover as officials from Germany, the U.S. and other Western countries demanded cooperation on tracking smugglers and securing nuclear power plants. Meanwhile, persistent Russian...
Some of those falling through, like Pronin, do not even figure in official statistics. The Kaliningrad native moved to Moscow in 1989 after a dispute with management at the factory where he worked. He slept on the streets and at railway stations, and lived for a while in a tent city that was pitched outside the walls of the Kremlin for six months in 1990. "It's so hard to live these days. I am an invalid, and I have almost no means of survival," says Pronin, whose hollow-cheeked face and legs twisted by an accident he refuses...
Born in the East Prussian capital of Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad in the Soviet Union), Prager went to the U.S. as a student before embarking on a journalistic career that included long stints in Southeast Asia, where he covered the Vietnam War, and in the Middle East, where he was one of the first Western journalists, in 1975, to interview Saddam Hussein...
...person in charge of this complex operation is assistant managing editor Karsten Prager. Born in 1936 in the East Prussian capital of Konigsberg (now the Soviet city of Kaliningrad), he finished secondary school in Recklinghausen, West Germany. He made his first visit to the U.S. in 1952 as an exchange student in Bronson, Mich., and later graduated from the University of Michigan. Prager joined TIME in 1965 as a correspondent in the Hong Kong bureau and has worked in Vietnam, New York City, San Francisco, Beirut and Madrid. He oversaw the Germany issue and, in a story based on conversations...