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...SILLIER SIDE of psychiatry shone through the diplomatic haze last Friday, when the State Department released an Air Force psychiatrist's report on a would-be Soviet defector. In several thousand equivocal words, a scientific charlatan shrouded hokum, pure and simple, in the mantle of medicine...
...took his stand when he was twelve and sent a rumble through the two most powerful nations on earth. His Soviet emigre parents had decided to return to the U.S.S.R. after living six months in Chicago. Walter stubbornly said he wouldn't go, and suddenly he was the littlest defector in international headlines. Washington granted him asylum. His parents, backed by the Soviet Union, went to court in the U.S., arguing that their parental rights had been violated. Various judges ruled various ways. Meanwhile, Walter did his part and kept on growing. Last week he turned 18, and the young...
Yurchenko is believed to be the most senior KGB defector since the 1930s, when two generals in the Soviet intelligence service fled the U.S.S.R. during Stalin's purges. He was a top-ranking member of the KGB's first chief directorate; specifically, he was assigned to the K directorate, which is responsible for penetrating other intelligence services. From 1975 to 1980 he served in Washington as a first secretary at the Soviet embassy and presumably had knowledge of Soviet agents and moles in the U.S. After returning to Moscow, says one intelligence source, he handled liaison between...
David A. Aloian '49, Executive Director of the Harvard Alumni Association--the official sponsor of the afternoon exercises--missed Marshall's speech by two years. However, he recalls an equally famous address by Russian defector and author Alexsandr I. Solzhenitsyn...
...support Washington's concern. In an exclusive interview with TIME's Frank Melville in London, a former officer in the GRU, the Kremlin's military intelligence agency, has affirmed the fact that acquiring American high technology is the agency's No. 1 priority. Other comments of this recent defector, whose identity is being guarded by British intelligence...