Letters: Mar. 7, 1983

KGB Net

To the Editors:

We have good reason to fear the KGB [Feb. 14]. As your story points out, the KGB manages to sustain the illusion of being all-powerful "largely because Soviet citizens police one another." A society that reveres a child who turned in his father to the authorities is right out of George Orwell's 1984.

Susan J. Uttendorfsky

New York City

Although an open society is part of the American tradition, we should close our doors a little more for our own safety.

Gerald S. Kupkowski

Cheektowaga, N. Y.

Having Yuri Andropov in...

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