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The following section was taken from "KGB : The Inside Story" [1] page 450 : " Service A (Active Measures) attached extreme importance to countering Carter's human rights campaign by attacking the United States' own record. In 1977, it composed a number of letters to the President's wife, Rosalynn Carter, protesting against 'the infringement of human rights' in the Unites States. While Gordievsky was stationed in Copenhagen, the residency succeeded in persuading a well-known liberal politician to send one of these letters to Mrs Carter. The residency was so excited that it immediatly sent a PR line officer to her home town to obtain a copy of the letter and satisfy himself that it corresponded to the KGB draft. The two texts matched exactly, and a triumphant report was sent to the Centre. {16} The trials of Soviet human rights activists in 1978 brought further official American condemnations. The KGB hit back with a crude attempt to link the Jewish dissident, Anatoli Shcharansky, with the CIA; he was sentenced to ten years in jail on a trumped-up charge by the KGB of passing secret information to an American journalist. {17} Though well aware that it had fabricated this particular plot, the KGB convinced itself that there was nonetheless a real conspiracy by the CIA and the White House to manipulate the human rights campaign in the Soviet Union. Gromyko continued to insist, even in the era of the glasnost, that the campaign was part and parcel of American 'ideological subversion against the USSR ... Carter took a personal hand in the campaign of provocation'. {18} {16} Gordievsky {17} Ulam, Dangerous Relations, pp. 200-2 Shevchenko, Breaking with Moscow, p. 398 {18} Gromyko, Memories, p. 291"
[2] "Dangerous Relations: The Soviet Union in World Politics, 1970-1982"
[3] "Breaking with Moscow"
[4] "Memories"
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