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Politics of Eastern and Central Europe, and Restructured the Rela- Tionship Between Europe and the United States POPULAR CULTURE STATISTICS JAMES MADISON THE FLUORIDATION WARS Periodicals t Books WILSON QUARTERLY 0 Bv William R. Corson and ~bbertT. Crowley This heavily documented expose provides a fresh way of look- ing at the current operations and global strategies of the new KGB. It is the first time that professional American intelligence agents have publicly analyzed sixty-eight years of Soviet intelligence background, and linked this background to current operations against America and other Western nations. Their devastating conclusion is that the KGB has forsaken its traditional role as the "sword and shield of the party" to actively become master of the Soviet Communist party and the dominant force in the govern- ment of the USSR. 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