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WORLD, Page 49World NotesSOVIET UNIONMission: Improbable
Perestroika has made little headway at the KGB, but the
Soviet spies are taking a stab at glasnost. Even though KGB chief
Vladimir Kryuchkov still delivers speeches with Stalinist
overtones, his year-old public relations department is busy
polishing the agency's image. It has opened a museum at
headquarters in Moscow's Dzerzhinsky Square, allows some
officers to give interviews and recently ran a Miss KGB contest
in which women in bulletproof vests competed in skills like
cooking, shooting, dancing, karate and applying makeup.
The KGB now thinks it is ready for prime time. Its p.r.
director, Major General Alexander Karbainov, was in Rome last
week to announce a joint Soviet-Italian production -- a
13-episode TV series to be called The KGB Tells All. It will
cover such famous cases as the assassination of Leon Trotsky by
one of Stalin's hit men and the defections of Kim Philby and
other Britons who spied for Moscow. Preparations will take about
a year, the producers say, and scriptwriters will be able to
consult some secret material. The 90-minute docudramas will be
filmed in Europe and the U.S.
The implication that the KGB is really about to "tell all"
is, of course, just show business. When correspondents in
Moscow asked the p.r. department for details on the TV series,
they were told to put their questions in writing and wait.