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...routine questions, indicated that he had spent part of his Army service as a cryptographer, was thoroughly familiar with U.S. code systems and cryptographic techniques. He was told he would hear from the Russians later. Back home in Springfield, Mass. last April, he was visited by one Vadim Alexandrovich Kirilyuk, who introduced himself as a member of the Trusteeship Division of the United Nations Secretariat,† told him his scholarship application was coming along nicely. But what a shame it was, said Kirilyuk, to waste all that valuable experience in cryptography. While waiting for the scholarship...
Shortly after one visit, an FBI agent knocked on the door to ask some questions about Kirilyuk. The ex-G.I. and his wife, nervous anyway about the increasing baldness of the Russian proposition, told their story, then joined in arranging several more meetings with Kirilyuk, which the FBI observed. A key meeting took place Sept. 18, the day that Nikita Khrushchev was appealing for universal disarmament at the United Nations...
Secretary of State Christian Herter decided against arrest and prosecution, said Nixon, because it might embarrass Guest Khrushchev. Instead, the evidence was taken quietly to U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. and within days Kirilyuk and his family were on their way home. There were no arrests, no speeches, no recriminations. Total score of Soviet diplomats known to have been kicked out by the U.S. in the past ten years: 15-eight from the Soviet embassy in Washington, seven from...