Israeli Trade Minister Natan Sharansky got a look at his KGB file dating back to when he was a leading campaigner for Jewish emigration rights in the Soviet Union during the 1970s. Sharansky, who is heading his third trade mission to Moscow, was given some of the documents from his file during a meeting with the head of Russia’s security service.
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