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Article: Secrets and terror as KGB files are ripped open; Letter from Estonia.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
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- March 19, 1999
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In one file is the deportation order for an entire family, including an eight-year-old boy. In another is a death sentence handed down to a businessman for joking about the demise of communism.
These old files from the Soviet secret police, the KGB, among 30,000 in a city-centre archive, are the focus of a campaign to root out Stalinist-era agents and convict them.
"This isn't just history," said archive researcher Indrek Urjo, waving a set of wispy, peppermint-green papers, each stamped with a faded red hammer-and-sickle.
"This is evidence of a ...