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Only a few hours earlier, Soviet Charge d'Affaires Lev Parshin had been summoned to the Foreign Office. There, Deputy Under Secretary David Goodall told him that Oleg Gordievsky, officially an embassy counselor but now also identified as a senior operative of the KGB, the Soviet intelligence agency, had defected to Britain. With that, Goodall handed Parshin a list naming 25 Soviet diplomats, trade officials and journalists whom Gordievsky had identified as spies. Parshin was told that all would have to leave Britain within three weeks...
British officials also suggested that Gordievsky was a much more important catch than KGB Officer Oleg Lyalin, whose 1971 defection led to the expulsion of 105 Soviets from Britain. Some experts even thought that Gordievsky might prove as valuable as Colonel Oleg Penkovsky, a highly productive spy in Britain's service who was snared by the Soviets and executed...
...five students on the committee met periodically with department representatives Oleg Grabar, Khan Professor of Islamic Art, and department Chairman Neil Levine Although charges of sex discrimination prompted the dialogue, the meetings focussed more on improving the graduate student advising system, fellowship program and other areas of student life than on the discrimination issue, said Robert Simon, a member of the graduate student committee...
Anyone caught spying against the Soviet Union is worse than an enemy and deserving of a fate worse than mere execution. After Oleg Penkovsky, a colonel in military intelligence, was discovered to be working for the CIA in 1962, he was put to death. The assumption at the time was that he had been shot. Subsequently, however, it was reported that in fact he was hurled alive into a crematorium furnace. Thus, there is a brutal converse of the Soviet Union's adulation of spies who serve its cause around the world...
...other Soviet defectors decided to return home last week. Igor Rykhov, 22, and Oleg Khlan, 21, who had deserted from their military unit in Afghani stan and found their way to Britain, turned themselves in to the Soviet embassy in London, and two days later were back in Moscow. British officials said that they had grown home sick after receiving letters from their families...