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- WORLD, Page 49World NotesSOVIET UNIONMission: Improbable
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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