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...session produced a memorable image of Soviet stonewalling: U.S.S.R. Ambassador Oleg Troyanovsky staring icily into the distance, his back to a large TV screen directly behind him, while members of his staff twisted around in their seats to look. Troyanovsky had been put in an impossible position by his government, which at that point was admitting nothing. In reply to the playing of the tape, the Soviet Ambassador could only lamely recite a long catalogue of alleged U.S. violations of Soviet airspace. Apparently unknown to him, Moscow was on the point of releasing a TASS statement admitting that...
...Wednesday, Soviet diplomats threatened to move unilaterally. Charge Oleg Sokolov telephoned Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt to announce that he was scheduling a press conference that afternoon, after which Andrei would depart Washington. As a "big concession from Moscow," he added, Burt could attend. The U.S. diplomat replied that the plan was "totally unacceptable" and promised to denounce it in advance at the State Department's noon press briefing. Sokolov replied that he had already notified the U.S. press of his plans. "There was the potential for an ugly confrontation," recalled one U.S. official. "We were fully prepared...
...spotlighted others as well. FBI Director William Webster announced last Thursday that the bureau had foiled attempts by Barmyantsev and two other Soviet spies to obtain U.S. secrets. Oleg Konstantinov, 33, an intelligence agent serving at the Soviet mission to the U.N., had been picked up by FBI agents in Manhasset, L.I., in the act of attempting to obtain military aerospace secrets from a U.S. citizen operating "under the control of the FBI," in the cautious words of a bureau spokesman. Konstantinov left the U.S. before he was expelled. Another worker at the Soviet U.N. mission, Alexander Mikheyev...
Among the Soviets sent packing were Nikolai Chetverikov, the third-ranking diplomat at the Soviet embassy, who was considered to be the head of all KGB activities in France; Oleg Shirokov, bureau chief of the official press agency TASS; and Vladimir Kulikovskikh, a TASS reporter. Forty of the group held diplomatic passports. Said a member of France's counterespionage agency, the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST): "Ten or 15 years ago, the Soviets instructed their young agents that France was no problem. Well, all that has changed. Now they'll have to send their best recruits...
Harvey Brooks, Pierce Professor of Technology and Public Policy, and Oleg Grabar. Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art, are the two other faculty members on the committee...