Volume 24, Number 5 · March 31, 1977
The KGB in Georgia
By Peter B. Reddaway
On January 9 Zviad Gamsakhurdia avoided death for the third time when he noticed just soon enough that the brake cables on his car had been cut. His house in Tbilisi stands on a hill, and had he driven down it, his chances of survival would have been slim. The best-known dissenter in Soviet Georgia survived two KGB attempts to poison him in 1975, but he had been expecting new trouble since receiving an anonymous New Year greeting by phone a week earlier. The caller had said that his first celebration of 1977 would be to blow up Gamsakhurdia with a concealed bomb placed in his car.
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