According to Suvorov, even the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union couldn't enter GRU headquarters without going through a security screening.

According to Lunev, a probable scenario in the event of war would be poisoning of Potomac River with chemical or biological weapons, " targeting the residents of Washington DC " He also noted that it is " likely " that GRU operatives have placed already " poison supplies near the tributaries to major US reservoirs.

If the battery runs low, the weapon has a transmitter that sends a coded message — either by satellite or directly to a GRU post at a Russian embassy or consulate .” According to Lunev, the number of " missing " nuclear devices ( as found by General Lebed ) " is almost identical to the number of strategic targets upon which those bombs would be used.

' According to Aleksandr Gurov, an expert on the Vory who headed the organized crime units of the Soviet Interior Ministry and the GRU, " unlike the Cosa Nostra the Vory have ' less rules, but more severe rules ' the members must have no ties to the government, meaning they cannot serve in the army or cooperate with officials while in prison.

According to former GRU Colonel Stanislav Lunev, " SVR and GRU ( Russia's external and military intelligence agencies, respectively ) are operating against the U. S. in a much more active manner than they were during even the hottest days of the Cold War " From the end of 1980s, KGB and later SVR began to create " a second echelon " of " auxiliary agents in addition to our main weapons, Illegals and special agents ", according to former SVR officer Kouzminov.

According to defector Hwang Jang-yop, the North Korean government system became even more centralized and autocratic during the 1980s and 1990s under Kim Jong-il than it had been under his father.

According to the KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky in 2008, Zakayev was placed # 2 on the FSB assassination list, between Berezovsky and Litvinenko.

According to Peterson this defector described the American bombardment as very effective, " Kabul city has seen many rockets, but this was a different thing " and " the American bombing of Taliban trenches, cars, and troops caused us to be defeated.

According to the claims of one defector, forgeries are intermingled with real dollars in about a 1 to 1 ratio.

According to the " pentito " ( Mafia defector ) Tommaso Buscetta, Lima ’ s father, Vincenzo Lima, was a " man of honour " of the Palermo Centro Mafia family that was led by Salvatore and Angelo La Barbera of which Buscetta's family – the Porta Nuova Mafia family – was part as well.

According to KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky, Jones provided intelligence to the Soviet Union in return for money.

According to the University, the Latin motto Sidere mens eadem mutato can be translated as " Though the constellations change, the mind is universal ", therefore, conveying the aspiration that " the traditions of the older universities of the Northern Hemisphere are continued here in the Southern.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of, all of it land ( Though small streams exist within the township ).

According to Neil Strauss, " Though he weighs in at over 350 pounds, Mr. Burke carried his bulk as majestically as he used his voice.

According to the Federation of American Scientists: "... Though sometimes compared to the US Defense Intelligence Agency, GRU's activities encompass those performed by nearly all joint US military intelligence agencies as well as other national US organizations.

According to People, " Though Lisa Loeb rose to fame as a singer, she ’ s probably just as well known for her eyeglasses.

According to Paul Oliver in his book Savannah Syncopators, " Though griot has to know many traditional songs without error, he must also have the ability to extemporize on current events, chance incidents and the passing scene.

According to Yves Gautier in the book, “ Michael Jackson, Backdoor to Neverland ”: “ Though few know about it, Michael Jackson is a voracious reader and there is a 10, 000-volume library in the Neverland Ranch, that focuses on art, psychology and poetry .”

According to author Jeff Wilson, " Though Tricycle seeks to represent itself as nonsectarian, in practice there is much more Zen and Tibetan material than other forms of Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism ... Tricycle does not represent the whole of Buddhism or even American Buddhism, but it does offer a consistently interesting perspective on issues and ideas that influence many Buddhists in the United States today.

Though the two relationships function chiefly as a means of demonstrating Bogus Trumper's tendency to repeat his mistakes, Irving is often regarded for his strong, independent female characters, and Tulpen and Biggie can be seen as markers in the development of the strong women in his more popularly successful novels, particularly The World According to Garp ( 1979 ).

According to the RACP working group, " Though not considered a " cause " of CFS, some patients with chronic fatigue report food intolerances that can exacerbate symptoms.

The Soviets began to attack Canadian involvement directly, “ they objected to the use of Canadian peacekeepers because Canada was one of Belgium ’ s NATO allies .” The Soviets even went so far as to demand “ the withdrawal of armed groups from Canada .” According to Scarnecchia, the Soviets “ accused the RCAF of supplying weapons and armoured steel to Tshombe ’ s forces in secessionist Katanga, they believed that this RCAF support was in line with Western Interests .” Though these allegations were never proven in response the secretary-general of the UN transferred the RCAF contingent from performing airlift duties in support of the UN mission to a Pisa-Leopoldville airlift of food and aid.

According to the theory underlying odd-lot indices, the trader who trades odd lots is most likely a small trader, one who can't afford to trade round lots.

According to Viktor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning, when a person is faced with extreme mortal dangers, the most basic of all human wishes is to find a meaning of life to combat the " trauma of nonbeing " as death is near.

According to official data, in 2007, a record-high 500, 000 tourists visited Armenia — most of them ethnic Armenians from Europe, Russia and the United States.

According to fellow folk singer Joan Baez, it was one of the most requested songs from her audiences, but she never realized its origin as a hymn ; by the time she was singing it in the 1960s she said it had " developed a life of its own ".

According to an interview she gave to an Egyptian journalist, her first name was Yvonne, though she is referred to as Yvette in most published references.

According to the Fraser Institute, Alberta has very high levels of economic freedom and rates Alberta as the most free economy in Canada, and second most free economy amongst U. S. states and Canadian provinces.

According to most Muslim scholars, the Ark of the Covenant has a religious basis in Islam, and Islam gives it special significance.

According to a 2008 television programme, presented by Griff Rhys Jones, “ the flame has only been extinguished once, by a drunken Mexican football supporter on the night that France beat Brazil here in Paris ,” most likely referring to the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final.

According to the standard modern text on the work, Lamar Ronald Lacey's The Myth of Aktaion: Literary and Iconographic Studies, the most likely original version of the myth is that Actaeon was the hunting companion of the goddess who, seeing her naked in her sacred spring, attempts to force himself on her.

According to Hippolytus of Rome ( Philosophumena, VII, xxiii ) Theodotus taught that Jesus was a man born of a virgin, according to the Council of Jerusalem, that he lived like other men, and was most pious ; but that at his baptism in the Jordan the " Christ " came down upon the man Jesus in the likeness of a dove.

Meteorologists ( and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere ) use a definition based on months, with autumn being September, October and November in the northern hemisphere, According to United States tradition, autumn runs from the day after Labor Day ( i. e. the Tuesday following the first Monday of September ) through Thanksgiving ( i. e. the fourth Thursday in November ), after which the holiday season that demarcates the unofficial beginning of winter begins.

According to one witness, " the public received the musical hero with the utmost respect and sympathy, listened to his wonderful, gigantic creations with the most absorbed attention and broke out in jubilant applause, often during sections, and repeatedly at the end of them.

According to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, " Problems associated with drug trafficking are potentially the most serious threat to stability in the BVI ".

According to the most recent measurements and observations, the Big Bang occurred approximately 13. 75 billion years ago, which is thus considered the age of the Universe.

According to family tradition, the family had included one of the most prolific Rococo painters of the ancien régime, Fragonard, whose handling of color and expressive, confident brushwork influenced later painters.

According to a 2003 study undertaken by the International Diabetes Federation ( IDF ) on the access to and availability of insulin in its member countries, synthetic ' human ' insulin is considerably more expensive in most countries where both synthetic ' human ' and animal insulin are commercially available: e. g. within European countries the average price of synthetic ' human ' insulin was twice as high as the price of pork insulin.

According to Grayson Lee, who created the snow penis sculpture in 2007, most of its residents were " heartbroken " to leave.

According to the Corporate Library's study, the average size of publicly traded company's board is 9. 2 members, and most boards range from 3 to 31 members.

According to the United States Census Bureau the city's area includes of land and ( 40. 83 %) water, most of it part of San Francisco Bay.

According to the most recent classification scheme, the APG III of 2009, the order includes five families: Commelinaceae, Haemodoraceae, Hanguanaceae, Philydraceae, and Pontederiaceae.

According to one historical account, aboriginal tribes of Australia were " most certainly cannibals ", and would willingly eat anyone who was killed in a fight ; they would also eat men famed for their fighting ability who had died natural deaths "... out of pity and consideration for the body ".

According to the Botanical Society of the British Isles ' most recent Atlas, there has been only one confirmed record since 2000.

According to utilitarianism, a good action is one that results in an increase in pleasure, and the best action is one that results in the most pleasure for the greatest number.

According to a 2004 French study conducted by INSERM, cognitive behavioral therapy was the most effective therapy when compared with psychoanalysis and family or couples therapy.