kgb came on christmas eve and took me to their prison.ommander who interrogated me told me our struggle was pointless. 35,000 lithuanians have already lost their lives, give up this fight. >> on august 27th, 1974, 14 agents forced their way into my apartment. during those times, the number of under ground publications were being produced and i was in the process of typing one of them. i had just finished typing 6 pages, they searched and found them. and i was arrested and incarcerated in a kgb prison. for 9 months they interrogated me. the kgbs worse torture consisted of taking a healthy person and locking them up in a psychiatric hospital and give them electric shock treatments. it didn't take long for these treatments to destroy the body. before my arrest my neighbor a poet was locked up in a psychiatric hospital. all of them were run by the kgb they used e lek tree shock therapy on him and chemical treatments. after four months his wife was allowed to visit him she told me he could no longer speak had put on 90 pounds, and one by one h

the files of the kgb except for a few who bought their way in, they're not open to general people. i mean, if we had hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy it from them they might have -- >> so he had access to those files. >> we'll take one more back here. >> okay. >> i can remember -- when we had the radio. no tv. and i was at home a great deal with a young child. and the radio on all day it seemed because mccarthy was pontiff indicating and he just seemed like a perfectly horrible person but also seemed there was a great hysteria in the country because he was getting people so upset and excited. and my question to you is, were -- do you think that part of the problem of the trials of your parents and so forth had to do with mccarthy era getting everybody so histairic. >> yes but it was some of the cause of it. so what immediately started to happen is every time someone would come before the house un-american activities committee, instead of being asked only are you a communist, the next question was, are you a spy? and, you know, the whole point was, by being a communist, you h

presidential candidates are arrested, 56 people are facing 15 years in jail and we still have kgb. would you come there and cover that? questionset those two answered first. >> i did a story once on have a nice day racism. we were sitting outside the saddam hussein's palace and the producer and i wondered if we could catch the ultra high frequency racism. we did this story and it is still being shown in some places in some universities. i have always felt that their reflexes that i encountered that were not discrimination as such, but were embedded reflexes. you have to steer around them and come back three or four times and prove yourself in other ways. i know, again, it is there in endemic ways and it is part of the job of all the rest of us to make sure that we go out and the the hands that i was talking about, the hands to go out and say we know what you are experiencing, we are here, and we are here 1 billion strong to be on your side. >> ok, yes? >> over the years, you have reported on some much devastation. how have you remained so strong and persistent when reporting such h

we still have kgb. would you would beat -- would you be interested in going there and doing your reportage? >> let's get those two questions answered first. >> yes, it would. i did a story once in what we call it "have a nice day, racism." we were sitting outside of saddam hussein's palace. we always wanted to see if we could capture on camera the ultra high-frequency racism. and we did this story. i believe it is still being shown in some places, at some universities. i always felt that there were reflexes that i encountered that were not dim discrimination as such, but invaded reflexes and you have to sometimes fear around them, come back three times, come back four times, and prove yourself in other ways. but i know that it is there in in demint ways -- in endemic ways and we have to make sure that we go out and be those hands that i was talking about, those hands that go out and say we know what you're experiencing. look, we're here and we are here a billion strong to be on your side. >> ok. yes, th

we still have kgb. would you would beat -- would you be interested in going there and doing your reportage? >> let's get those two questions answered first. >> yes, it would. i did a story once in what we call it "have a nice day, racism." we were sitting outside of saddam hussein's palace. we always wanted to see if we could capture on camera the ultra high-frequency racism. and we did this story. i believe it is still being shown in some places, at some universities. i always felt that there were reflexes that i encountered that were not dim discrimination as such, but invaded reflexes and you have to sometimes fear -- but imbedded reflexes and you have to sometimes fear around them, come back three times, come back four times, and prove yourself in other ways. but i know that it is there in in demint ways -- in endemic ways and we have to make sure that we go out and be those hands that i was talking about, those hands that go out and say we know what you're experiencing. look, we're here and we are