KGB election to power. On the same day the KGB decided to imprison Sayed Gulabzoy as well as Muhammad Watanjar and Asadullah Sarwari but while in captivity and under an investigation all three denied the allegation that the current Minister of Defence was an American secret agent. The denial of claims was passed on to Yuri Andropov and Leonid Brezhnev, who as the main chiefs of the KGB proposed operation Raduga to save the life of Gulabzoy and Watanjar and send them to Tashkent from Bagram airbase by giving them fake passports. With that and a sealed container in which an
The KGB and Soviet Disinformation foreword by Roy Godson. A Spanish language edition was released in 1987 by Editorial Juventud. Seth Arenstein analyzed the book for "SAIS Review" and wrote that "Bittman's treatment of disinformation, particularly his meticulous research, makes "The KGB and Soviet Disinformation" fascinating reading". John C. Campbell reviewed the book for the journal "Foreign Affairs" and gave a mixed review, "Going well beyond the author's personal experience–he left Czechoslovakia in 1968–the book ranges over the entire field ... with many illustrative cases and items of interest, but also with a tendency to write the KGB's role as larger than life". "The KGB