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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Disinformation, KGB and CIA, the vie - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 6-Dec-83 12:57:24 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  6 12:57:24 1983
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 >> Now that you mention it, whatever peace movements there  are
 >> in  Eastern  Europe do exist by the KGB's discretion, if not
 >> direction.  If the KGB  didn't  want  a  peace  movement  in
 >> Eastern  Europe,  there  wouldn't be one.  Likewise, if they
 >> did want one, there would be one.  This isn't  to  say  that
 >> just  because  there  is  one,  the  KGB is behind it.  It's
 >> possible the KGB just doesn't care (Ha!), or is  willing  to
 >> let  it  exist, or support something that was already there,
 >> for their own ends.
 >> 				Carl
 >> 				..!ctvax!uokvax!rigney

So, does Solidarity operate in Poland "by the KGB's discretion"?  While I'm
sure that the KGB's influence is not small and that those who participate
in proscribed movements do so at considerable risk of reprisals from the
KGB and many other authorities (both Soviet and, say, Polish or East German),
I'm under the impression that it it is a mistake to assume that Moscow has
every last detail of life in the Warsaw Pact completely under its thumb.
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Prentiss Riddle
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