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Chapter Twenty
Silver Spring, Maryland/November 28
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The KGB, once thirty-five thousand strong, has been disbanded and replaced with the Intelligence Directorate, a small research group, and five thousand security forces, the manageable number needed to guard the borders of the Russian republic.
THE NATIONAL VIEW
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Construction workers have unearthed human bones in central Moscow, and the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets said that they may be the remains of victims of Stalin's secret police. The bones were found by workers installing streetlights near the former home of Stalin's secret police chief, Lavrenti Beria.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Marina Suslova drove west through the noonday traffic to Falls Church, then onto the Beltway, circling halfway around the city and suburbs to Silver Spring. To any casual observer,

 
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