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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (343260)	1/14/2003 9:38:00 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

The New Republic said his role was "ambiguous." thenewrepublic.com It was Human Events who said he was a paid shill for the KGB, although he stopped cooperating after the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968. humanevents.org See also fff.org

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (343260)	1/15/2003 12:13:50 AM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

No smoking gun, but smoke. cjr.org "during an appearance at Exeter University in England on March 11. The speaker was Oleg Kalugin, a former major general in the KGB who had worked as a press officer at the Soviet embassy in Washington (see "The Spy Who Gave Me a Scoop," CJR, November/December 1990). Among other things, Kalugin discussed the problems the KGB had had in recruiting agents during the cold war. Andrew Brown, a reporter for the London Independent, summarized his comments in a ten-paragraph story that included this quotation, which set the whole plot in motion..." "...We had an agent -- a well-known American journalist -- with a good reputation, who severed his ties with us after 1956. I myself convinced him to resume them. But in 1968, after the invasion of Czechoslovakia . . . he said he would never again take any money from us."... "...In early September, Kalugin told several journalists attending a Nation-sponsored conference held in Moscow that, while he had indeed been referring to Stone in his Exeter speech, he had not meant that Stone had been a paid KGB agent -- only that he had sometimes lunched on the Soviet tab. He went on to say that by "agent" he had simply meant a useful contact, not an intelligence tool. After 1968, he said, Stone refused to let the Russians buy him any more lunches..."