in the crowd who shouted out to these clearly kgb people saying "shut up we came here to hear these guides not you, we hear you every day" so let's not white wash america and say that all the misunderstanding was on the part of russians not knowing american life. >> didn't you write they knew more about mark twain? >> russians read more about our supposed most seminal american author. this is no longer true now in russia but was true during the communist period. >> i think you may be right about reading literature and novels, i think the russian culture is steeped on it. their news was totally censored. >> they were restricted. >> the u.s. had freedom of information and we had that. >> things like voa, voice of america, they loved that and the jazz program that we pushed through on voa, it was very tough for them. we had much more access to information than they did. >> did any of you get to know i think we had three black guides? >> sure. >> one was a great buddy of mine, yes. >> they would come up and that is where they didn't want to go to the exhibition, they would ask them aren

now, there were among the crowds kgb agitators there, you could pick them out, who when somebody asked me why was my sister named lila, how much did a kilo of bread cost. i didn't know what a kilo was. i had to learn. there were kgb agitators who would ask these questions about lynching blacks, about unemployment, about surrounding them with military bases was the standard thing you could get. on the other hand, there were russians who hid themselves in the crowd who shouted out to these clearly kgb agitators saying shut up. we came to hear these guides, not you. we hear you every day. so let's not whitewash america and say that all the misunderstanding was on the part of russians not knowing american life. >> didn't you write they knew more about mark twain? >> russians read a great deal more about our most supposed most seminal american author. this is no longer true now in russia but was true during the communist period. >> i think you may be right about reading literature and novels, i think the russian culture is steeped on it. their news was totally censored. it was the way the c

kgb stayed up in the front of the airplane with the vice president and with their key people that were with him and so i'm back there with the doctor. and so when he had's see something he wanted to take a picture of, i'd stand in the aisle and see where the kgb was an see if they were in the front so he could take pictures. he got a lot of photos out of that, right behind the kgb. >> i want to ask you, you raised some questions about rosemary wilson. give me some examples. >> in 1960, she -- we'd have a scheduling committee which include don hughes, bob finch, rosemary wood and myself. and she was very key figure in all that. she also -- she didn't try to come up with new policy but she could influence nixon's view on it because she was always very frank with him. never any conversation rosemary wood had, wasn't very direct one. so sometimes we'd have a problem and she'd be our go-between. but she was a very smart woman, totally dedicated to him. but said he had a great sense of humor, loved to dance and things like that. but her whole life was really completely devoted to richard nix

when you say samizdat and kgb, i mean, these are heavy things.u were an enemy of these totalitarian states. you were like one of the early christians trying to get in and spread the word and plant a ferment, a seed. how close did you ever come to being either arrested or tortured? - well, i was arrested a couple of times, but certainly never tortured, and, just in all honesty, the risk was not really on me; the risk was on the people i was working with. they were the ones who risked arrest, imprisonment, beatings, internal exile. in my case, generally the worst thing that was going to happen was that i would be expelled from the country, so there was very little risk, really, personally for me. but for the people with whom i worked, it was a really different story. - and if only to protect these people, as you point out, you must have learned some of the black arts. i mean, you knew that they couldn't tap a fax line, and you must have used codenames on phone lines, and you must have met in cafés behind newspapers. i mean, how did it happen? - all

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. >> it remind me of the days of kgb.his is secret policing. >> the department will not reveal what led it to do that. but in a statement the department argues some of the most dangerous western al qaeda linked or inspired terrorists since 9/11 were radicalized and or recruited at muslim student associations. commissioner ray kelly said the department stritly obeys the constitution. >> we live in the most litigious environment anywhere. we have to be cognizant of what we do. we have to check. we have to make sure that what we're doing is within constitutional bounds. that's what we're doing. >> the documents in this case contain names of the students being watched and the undercover cops doing the watching. a strong indication they were leaked by someone high in the intelligence department of the nypd. suggesting serious doubts about the monitoring program. tony guida, cbs news, new york. >>> rupert murdoch isn't letting the phone hacking scandal stop him from publishing the paper. he plans to publish it next sunday. it w

. >> it reminded me of those days of kgb.his is secret police right here. >> reporter: the department will not reveal what lead it to put an undercover on a muslim camping trip. but in a statement the department argues some of the post dangerous western al qaeda linked or inspired terrorists since 9/11 were radicallized and or recruited at muslim student associations. police commissioner ray kelly says the department strictly obeys the constitution. >> we live in the most let i believe us environment anywhere. -- so we have to be cognizant of what we do. we have to check. we have to make certain that what we are doing is within constitutional bounds, and that's precisely what we're doing. >> reporter: the documents in this case contain names of the students being watched and the undercover cops doing the watching. a strong indication they were leaked by someone high in the intelligence department of the nypd. suggesting serious doubts about the monitoring program. tony guida, cbs news, new york. >> jeff: in a private ceremony

. >> thanks to kgb for hosting this evening. and i just wanted to say a little bit about the first experience that we had when we were putting this book together. and i suppose really we had the idea for doing the book a couple of weeks after occupy wall street started. and we thought well, we better try and get some kind of commission for doing the book, because we wanted to write an instant history. but the difficulty was that getting permission from a movement without any identifiable leadership was actually quite difficult. so we talked to a few of the facilitators in zuccotti park, and they said that they thought the best thing to do would be to go to a general assembly in the park, and in the announcements of the general assembly just announced we were doing the book, and asked for volunteers. so around about the beginning of october, a few of us went down and i was scheduled to speak. i was feeling a little nervous about it. first of all, because i had never spoken to the people's microphone before, and it's a particular

one student who was targeted said it is like the kgb.ohn mill soldier here to address the question of whether the intel gathering has gone too far. we'll see you at 7:00. >>> thank you, carley, wii we will be watching. as you remember cbs this morning, now police actions from those reports. >>> the owner of a liquor store accused of selling booze to teenagers. he was shown on our 9 wants to know series. jessica doyle is live with that story. good morning jess. >> reporter: good morning to both of you. that's right a major development after that 9news now investigation. what happened is on saturday night, richard kim is the owner of town square market here, behind me. he was arrested, handcuffed and detained, charged with selling alcohol to a minor. a 17-year-old was also arrested and detained for buying alcohol. one young man went inside and bought the alcohol and came out, police asked to see id, it turned out it belonged to someone else. checking id simply is not enough. >> these are 15-year-olds who lack like 15-year-olds. so it's bee

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you look at those, they are the categories that the cia carries out back in the '50s based off the kgb manuals predefined torture to allow what is called mental torture that does not leave a mark a been waterboarding in the case of bradley manning and is considered torture read not by u.s. law that was signed into legislation. what is called torture here is a very narrow category and a good deal that the torture the u.s. carries out his legal by specialists of constitutional law and others settle most nobody knows about. >> 18 to ask about two implications our suggestions the first is merely the unthinkable conclusion the officials of judges our politicians hold powerful criminal behavior accountable in the most egregious examples such as torture and the possibility of a cognizance disses since not with a constant awareness of filling their role may be driving that need to scapegoat that foldable the lead powerful for the most trivial offenses accountable to demonstrate to redo hold a lot of people accountable but just not us with the charade that passes behind it without the knowledge

his opponents see him as a warmed over kgb operative over a new and improved soviet state.is entirely accurate. the real hero of russia's rescue was oil. the dramatic rise in the average russian's income has been a consequence not of putin's policies but of oil prices. the price of oil when putin came to office was $27 a barrel. from that point it began an almost unbroken rise and is now at $116 a barrel. oil is the lifeblood of the economy that provides two-thirds of its exports, half of the federal government's revenues. they used these revenues to dole out patronage across the country. it is widely believed in the west that putin stays in power through repression. he does so in larger measure through bribery. in the short run putin will be able to win the march election and consolidate power through a mixture of repression and patronage. his problems are more long-term. his government has ramped up its revenues to the point that it now needs oil to approach $125 a barrel simply to balance the budget. russia's demographics are terrible. it has a population that's age and

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kgb files became open after the fall of the soviet union revealed russia's real fear was not of the united states but of the rearmed germany. there was no attempt to negotiate anything with russia. as stalin pointed out in 1946 the americans, negotiation meant capitulation. the cold war that the u.s. busy for decades and the so-called perimeter defense withheld any disturbance in the world was cause for u.s. military action led to the disastrous of iran, vietnam and so on. it is a long list, well-documented by the new york times reporter and overthrow, and killing hope. the psychological structure of-identity lead to a crisis when the soviet union collapsed. we had no one to define ourselves against. the gulf war of 1991 helped fill the gap for a time but the clinton years were largely meaningless without an enemy. we had no idea who we were so we filled the space with o.j. simpson and monica lewinsky. the islamic world did as the greatest favor of vegetable. attacked us. overnight terrorism replaced communism and george bush jr. like reagan in characterizing the soviet union did not hesit

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kgb came open after the fall of the soviet union revealed that russia's real fear was not of the united states, but for germany. there was no attempt to settle anything. negotiation actually meant failure, and in any case, the cold war kept the u.s. busy for decades and the so-called perimeter defense, holding that any disturbance in the world led to disasters, and it's a long list, well documented by the "new york times" reporter and in the book, "overthrow," for example, or in "killing hope." it's well documented. psychological structure of negative io identity led to a crisis when the soviet union collapsed and we had no one to define ourselves against. the gulf war filled the gap for a time, but the clinton years were largely meaningless without an enemy, we had no idea who we were, and we filled the space with monica lieu win ski. the islamic world did the greatest favor and attacked us. communism replaced -- terrorism replaced communism, and framed it as a war between good and evil, a crew -- crusade. there was no possible discussion of american foreign policy in the middle east p

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the cia back in the '50s basing themselves on kgb manuals and so on that redefined torture to allow what's called mental torture, you know, the kind that doesn't leave marks. so, for example, actually even waterboarding. so, you know, take bradley manning in solitary confinement which, of course, is torture by any reasonable means. but not by u.s. law. and that was then signed into legislation under clinton. so what's called torture here is a very narrow category, and a good deal of the torture that the u.s. actually carries out is legal under u.s. law. this is discussed by specialists in constitutional law, levinson and others, but almost nobody knows about it. well, you know, these are things everyone ought to know about. >> okay, yep. >> i wanted to ask you about two implications or suggestions that i drew from you your book. the first is, excuse me, um, there's really the unmistakeable conclusion that our officials, judges, politicians won't or can't -- um, which is more scary -- hold powerful, powerful criminal behavior accountable even in the most egregious examples such as torture.

the cia back in the 50s basing themselves on kgb manuals and so on, redefined torture to allow mental torture, the kind that doesn't leave marks. for example, even water boarding, you know, take bradley manning, solitary confinement, torture by any means, but not by u.s. law. that was then signed into legislation under clinton and what's called torture here is a very narrow category and a great deal of torture the u.s. carried out is legal under u.s. law. this is discussed by specialists and constitutional law and others, but almost nobody knows about it. they are things everybody should know. >> two suggestions i drew from the boom. the first is that i think -- excuse me -- there's really the unmistakable conclusion that our officials, you know, judges, politicians, won't or can't, which is more scary, hold powerful criminal behavior accountable even in the most egregious examples like torture, and the possibility that the dissonance this raises that they are not aware their fulfilling that role as officials may be driving this need to sort of scapegoat, to find the most vulnerable,

>> don't ever bet against a former kgb government. forms of repression in russia are pretty severe. he still controls the institutions of the state. having said that, pretty encouraging. these russians are brilliant physicists, mathematicians, ballet, literature. they're remarkable people. they deserve some freedom to apply their creativity. and putin clearly is moving toward reestablishment of a totally authoritarian government. it's a great comment on the russian people that they're finally reacting to this. >> and if this happens, we've learned this in other places, not in russia, but we've learned in other places, although once upon a time we learned it in the old soviet union toward the end. if putin is losing control, if he is losing control of voters, if he is losing control of citizens, if the demonstrations grow, how much trouble is he going to be? how much will the army support him? how much will the military support him? what the chance of major unrest? >> remember, the army did finally support the people, yeltsin, the last

brought from the solvinski islands and was put in the square as a memorial for the dead in front of kgb headquarters. it was there for fear the former prisoners were dying off and wanted a significant gravestone for those being killed, but it had a perverse effect because it diffused the energy and the drive to establish a real monument, and as the political confrontation intensified, history became more and subordinated to the demands of overthrowing the communist regime. when the communist regime finally was overthrown, it can truly be said that the mass movement behind in support of memorializing the victims of the chair collapsed, and only those morally committed from the beginning remained to continue the work of trying to find the burial sites, to identify the dead, to establish monuments, to correct the history books, and russia was plunged into a horrific depression. during the yelpson years, the gross national product in russia declined by half. that didn't even happen under nazi occupation. there were 5 million to 6 million surplus debts. now by "surplus debts, it's a term use

ussr they couldn't track him down and he was -- he was -- he had gone to oxford to be recruited by the kgb president and to bring down this country. you remember that, as well. >> the passport file thing was all about? >> yes. >> no doubt there's some racial element to this. but i tend to agree with joe on this. i think every president. you look at the great presidential historians, and they'll all tell you every president, jon meacham, every president believes it was unfair, it was vicious. and the fact that we now have an african-american president, it shouldn't be a surprise there's some element of race to it. but at the end of the day, if he were white, barack obama, and was traveling down the path of republicans believe he's traveling down, they'd be criticizing him with the same kind of -- >> not as a closet muslim. that's all i'm saying. that's all i'm saying. >> that element i agree with. >> john, you remember in the '80s, george h.w. bush was accused of running drugs for the cia and some even suggested that -- a congresswoman suggested they were shipping it to south central l.a. t