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Following his meeting with Yuri Andropov on the occasion of the funeral of Leonid Brezhnev, Vice President George Bush remarked:

My view on Andropov is that- some people make this KGB thing sound horrendous. Maybe I speak defensively as a former head of the CIA. But leave out the operational side of the KGB—the naughty things they occasionally do. Here’s a man who has had access to a tremendous amount of intelligence over the years. In my judgment he would be much less apt to misread the intentions of the United States. And you know and I know that the Democrats and the Republicans in the U.S. would not just go out and make war on the Soviet Union. And that is something which, I think, a political boss out of a Vladivostok or a Leningrad might be less apt to know than a man who ran the intelligence organization. That offers potential. . . .

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Following his meeting with Yuri Andropov on the occasion of the funeral of Leonid Brezhnev, Vice President George Bush remarked:

My view on Andropov is that- some people make this KGB thing sound horrendous. Maybe I speak defensively as a former head of the CIA. But leave out the operational side of the KGB—the naughty things they occasionally do. Here’s a man who has had access to a tremendous amount of intelligence over the years. In my judgment he would be much less apt to misread the intentions of the United States. And you know and I know that the Democrats and the Republicans in the U.S. would not just go out and make war on the Soviet Union. And that is something which, I think, a political boss out of a Vladivostok or a Leningrad might be less apt to know than a man who ran the intelligence organization. That offers potential. . . .