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...apparently unrelated incident last week, half a dozen Soviet policemen beat up an off-duty U.S. Marine attached to the American consulate in Leningrad. He was not seriously injured, but it was not the first such incident this year. In April, an unidentified youth attacked a U.S. consular officer on the street. Administration officials said last week that they were becoming annoyed at the "disturbing pattern of official involvement in a campaign to harass and isolate Americans in the Soviet Union...
Richard D. Nethercut, a former Foreign Service Officer and consular on Chinese affairs, currently is a Fellow at the Institute of Politics...
...Agent Michael J. Waguespack contends that Smith has admitted taking many trips in 11981 and 1982 to Japan, which was then a hotbed of KGB activity, according to the testimony of a Soviet defector. On three occasions in the course of those trips, Smith met Victor Okunev, a Soviet consular-affairs official in Tokyo. Short, fluent in Japanese, and an active member of the Japan-Soviet Union Friendship Association, Okunev is assumed by U.S. officials to be a KGB agent. According to Waguespack, Smith admitted giving classified information about Royal Miter to Okunev and accepting the $11,000 from...
...granted exit visas to seven Soviet Pentecostalists who had camped for five years in the basement of the U.S. embassy and allowed U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam to discuss American arms-control proposals on Soviet television. Washington responded with an offer to resume talks on cultural and consular exchanges, and Secretary of State George Shultz began considering a trip to Moscow. A summit meeting between Andropov and President Reagan even seemed possible until the Soviets shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 on Sept...
...Viet" Cong burst into the embassy's consular building and various other buildings in the compound, but the Americans on the scene threw such heavy fire at them that the guerrillas were kept too busy to set off their explosives...