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- GRAPEVINE, Page 18FOR SALE: SOVIET SECRETS
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- By JANICE CASTRO/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- Why were several KGB agents skulking around the Frankfurt
- Book Fair recently? Like everybody else, they were looking for
- deals. The Soviet spymasters are conducting one of the most
- extraordinary auctions in history. To raise hard cash, they
- intend to sell large portions of their secret archives,
- according to the Nov. 4 issue of the weekly New York Observer.
- The files may contain answers to some of the most intriguing
- questions of the cold war era: How close did the U.S. and the
- Soviet Union come to war over Cuba? Were the Rosenbergs really
- Soviet spies? One problem will be to sort the real secrets from
- fabrications. Disinformation, after all, was a high art at the
- KGB.
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