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...thing one has to understand is that when others doubt and hesitate, Reagan trusts freedom--in politics, in trade, in prayer. When the Soviet double defector Vitaly Yurchenko spilled his story in Moscow to embarrass Reagan just before the summit, the President leaned back and listened. Yurchenko said the CIA drugged him and his complexion turned green, then they took him out to play golf so he could get a tan, and next they escorted him to dinner with the CIA's director Bill Casey, whose fly was unbuttoned. Reagan doubled up with laughter. So did the free world...
...commercials are expected to begin airing by early July and will be the first to feature a North Korean who is not a defector. The famed beauty already has an online fan club in South Korea with more than 16,000 members; admirers set up the site after she performed in Seoul at an inter-Korean reconciliation event in 2002. Cheil says Cho will be paid an amount similar to what South Korean entertainers get for TV spots. Industry insiders estimate that could be as much as $200,000--or roughly 14,000 times what the average North Korean earns...
Many CIA officials agree that Yurchenko's handlers failed to establish a strong bond with their client. Though few believe Yurchenko took away any U.S. secrets other than a firsthand account of how the CIA conducts debriefings, the episode is still deeply embarrassing to Casey, who acted as the defector's top case officer and wrote personal memos about him to Reagan. Though the CIA plans to complete an internal inquiry about what went wrong in about six weeks, there are no White House plans for a separate investigation. Casey, however, is certain to face tough grilling on the Hill...
...home to a hero's welcome, be put on the lecture circuit there, and then, when nobody's looking, be shot--if he's lucky," predicts a senior official of the U.S. intelligence community. That scenario assumes, of course, that Yurchenko is what he appears to be: a onetime defector who changed his mind. Yet sometimes, even in the land of mirrors, the most obvious image is the real one. --By James Kelly. Reported by David Halevy and Gregory H. Wierzynski/Washington
...would-be defector was quietly returning to the Marshal Konev until an officer of the ship talked to him at the gangplank. Then Medvid suddenly jumped into the water once again and swam back to shore. There he was caught by the pursuing Soviet officer and handcuffed while struggling violently. He even began beating his head against rocks. He was carried aboard the Konev, still kicking and screaming. On the ship, he slashed his left wrist in a possible suicide attempt...