Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!cbnews!lvc
From: lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Soviet Access to Usenet
Keywords: Espionage arpanet
Message-ID: <2409@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 30 Nov 88 22:08:05 GMT
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In article <274@lloyd.camex.uucp> kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg) writes:
>[Legend (heard it on NPR once) has it that an orientation film for new
>GRU recrewts (sic) shows captured GRU defectors being burned alive for
>their sins ...

Since this came up I want to mention that this is documented in a book by
former GRU agent Viktor Suvorov.  The title is something like "The Aquarium -
My life in Soviet Military Intelligence".  After I read the intro to the
book, where this cremation is described, I was literally shaking.  The film
is shown to recruits before they join so they are aware that the only way
out of the GRU is through a chimney.  Suvorov (a pseudonym really) managed
to escape; he supposedly has been sentenced to death for doing so.

Reading all of Suvorovs books changed my opinion of the USSR from what
most people seem to have to what my opinion is now.  Changing it back to
something less extreme will require some fundamental changes in the USSR.
Also, I don't think the US gov't is so great, but at least I could leave
if I wanted to.

-- 
Larry Cipriani, AT&T Network Systems, Columbus OH,
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