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* KGB stands for Komitat Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security). It is one arm of the
Soviet espionage apparatus, the other being the GRU, or Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie, the Soviet
Military Intelligence. The KGB is the successor to the Cheka, OGPU, NKVD, MVD and other initials used over
the years to designate the often reorganized, purged and renamed Soviet secret police and espionage network.
* As recently as April 15, 1962, while he was still the CIA station chief in Bonn, Pleasants had a byline article in
the New York Herald Tribune, filed from Zurich. It told of the state theater's production of Meyerbeer's Le
Prophete.
* Literally, Federal news service.
* John returned to West Berlin on December 13, 1955. He was tried, convicted of treasonable conspiracy and
served nineteen months of his four-year sentence.
