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<text id=91TT2262>
<title>
Oct. 14, 1991: World Notes:Soviet Union
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Oct. 14, 1991 Jodie Foster:A Director Is Born
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 41
World Notes
SOVIET UNION
Moscow's New Spymaster
</hdr><body>
<p> The most dreaded institution in the country, the KGB security
service, is being whittled down to manageable size. Its former
chairman, coup plotter Vladimir Kryuchkov, is in prison, and its
230,000 uniformed troops have been transferred to the regular
armed forces.
</p>
<p> Last week President Mikhail Gorba chev took yet another
chop at the monster. He appointed his close adviser Yevgeni
Primakov to head the foreign intelligence division, which will
become a separate organization.
</p>
<p> Primakov, an Arabist and a member of the Academy of
Sciences, is the first civilian to head the KGB's spy network.
He vows to civilize intelligence gathering and make it
"scientific." The days of "people in gray coats standing on
corners," he says, will be replaced by a focus on fighting
terrorism, the drug traffic and the proliferation of nuclear
weapons.
</p>
<p> "Where it is possible," says Prima kov, he will try for
glasnost and international cooperation. But spooks will still
be spooks. Primakov does not plan a major purge of his espionage
operatives, and they are likely to keep working secretly out of
Soviet embassies around the world.
</p>
</body></article>
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