KGB OFFICER WHO HELPED DISSIDENTS SENT TO PRISON.

ViktorOrekhov, a KGB captain who was sentenced to jail in 1978 for providinginformation to dissidents on KGB plans to arrest them, has beensentenced by a Russian court for possessing an unregistered pistol,Moscow’s Echo radio reported July 30. Orekhov’s real crime undoubtedlywas his continuing efforts to expose the methods of the Russiansecret services.

Yeltsin Names Barsukov to Security Council.