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After 21 months and two trials, former FBI Agent Richard Miller was found guilty last week of spying for the Soviet Union. A lackluster agent who was enticed into a love affair with Soviet emigre Svetlana Ogorodnikova, Miller, 49, was convicted by a Los Angeles jury of a plot to exchange information about the bureau's antispy work for $65,000 in gold and cash; his first trial last year ended in deadlock. The 20-year bureau veteran, who claimed that he was trying to salvage his career by infiltrating the KGB, faces two possible life sentences...
Miller was the first agent ever charged with espionage and the latest in a string of Government employees convicted of selling secrets. To U.S. Attorney Robert C. Bonner, the case "demonstrated graphically the KGB's effort to recruit Americans" as spies. Half the Soviet diplomatic officials in the U.S. are intelligence officers, Bonner said. At week's end the FBI supported that contention by apprehending Colonel Vladimir Izmaylov, the Soviet air attache in Washington. He had approached a U.S. Air Force officer and allegedly offered to pay for information about the Strategic Defense Initiative and other weapons projects...
Without a professor since Casey Stengel, baseball last week persuaded the president of Yale University, A. Bartlett ("Hit them where they aren't") Giamatti, to jump to the National League. As the commissioner of baseball is a reformed travel agent, and the president of the American League is a retired cardiologist, the choice of an English teacher to replace Chub Feeney made a surprising kind of sense, though Chub has never hurried away from a press conference to deliver a lecture on Machiavelli...
...days earlier, signaling that something literary might be up, Commissioner Peter Ueberroth whimsically interrupted the amateur free-agent draft to award the New York Yankees a "special pick," G. Frederick Will of University High School in Champaign, Ill. Shopped as a fledgling shortstop, Will in truth is a fully developed columnist, usually called George, who cannot go to his left. He is 45, Giamatti 48, but they seemed as connected by chance as Tinker and Evers, for the dreamy realizations of Will brought home the realized dreams of Giamatti, who seemed to begin exploring this uncommon transfer...
...over and over, exchanged, copied." In the '50s American moral vigilantes sometimes claimed that rock 'n' roll was the creation of Communist subversives out to undermine U.S. youth; today Pravda could make the counterclaim a lot more persuasively. Says U.S. Information Agency Director Charles Z. Wick, a former talent agent: "I would hope that American pop culture would penetrate into other societies, acting as a pilot parachute for the rest of American values...