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...controversy and uncertainty remained in many minds even as late as yesterday afternoon. Oleg M. Sokolov, the press attache of the Soviet Embassy in Washington, told the CRIMSON that he had "no idea" whether the poet would visit the United States. "Any information about the trip must come from Yevtushenko himself," he said...
Codes & Cameras. Their Russian contact, the real heavy of Pravda's story, was Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky, a vain cheapskate who held an "important job" in the Soviet agency that coordinates scientific research. The secret life of Oleg, the serial explained, revolved around his hopes of escaping to the West, "the alluring world where there is no honor, no fatherland, no moral duty; where everything is measured by the pocketbook...
Alas, poor Oleg! When Soviet intelligence raided his apartment, said Pravda, they found three miniature cameras for photographing documents, code books, chemically treated paper for sending invisible messages, radios to receive instructions from spy headquarters in Frankfurt and transmit "information about the U.S.S.R.'s scientific, technical, war and political problems." Why, with such equipment, Oleg resorted to such clumsy devices as scrawling signs on lampposts and hiding information behind apartment-house radiators. Pravda's thriller writer does not explain. It would never happen in a James Bond story...
...World of Jacqueline Kennedy (NBC. 10-11 p.m.). A look at the First Lady's public and private lives, with comments on both from Pierre Salinger, Oleg Cassini, Margaret Mead and the late Eleanor Roosevelt...
...Washington last week, Soviet Press Attaché Oleg Sokolov turned to his American luncheon companion and asked sourly: "Who's Kohler?" Sokolov knew perfectly well, since Foy David Kohler, 54, just named by President Kennedy to replace Llewellyn E. Thompson Jr. as Ambassador to the Soviet Union, has been at the center of East-West negotiations over Berlin-probably the knottiest, longest-standing tangle in the cold war. But if the Russian was simply expressing predictable skepticism, quite a few Americans were asking the same question about the man who is about to take over...