Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spirit of Camp David." Last week, as if some quadrennial cold war cycle were reasserting itself, the air hummed once again with talk of a hopeful new turn in East-West relations. As U.S., British and Soviet negotiators met in Moscow to discuss a limited nuclear test ban, one diplomat observed: "Even the pessimists are optimistic...
...Moscow, there was considerable confusion about the important Soviet official who defected to the West 18 months ago, was thoroughly interrogated in the U.S., and is now a resident of Britain. The man's name was given as Anatoly Dolnytsin, and the Daily Telegraph alertly noted that a diplomat of the same name had served for nine months in the Soviet embassy in London. Moscow's Izvestia then got into the act, insisting that, far from defecting, Dolnytsin had left his London post in 1961 and had been working ever since at the foreign ministry in Moscow...
...Latin American embassy, a young diplomat worried over the delicate question of what to wear at an important occasion. He sighed with relief when he found in his mail a note reading "The Dean will wear . . ." The diplomat dressed accordingly...
...nights later, Volodya, Ivan and Vanya met again. Hidden all around were FBI men, eavesdropping, shooting movies and taking still pictures They quickly identified Ivan the Driver as Gennadi G. Sevastyanov, 33-a Russian "diplomat" carried on the rolls of the Soviet embassy as a "cultural attaché." He was actually a member of KGB-the Soviet secret police, trying to recruit a spy. "Which side are you on-ours or the Americans?" he asked Vanya. "You could better your position in life if you would cooperate." He quizzed Vanya about his intelligence work, told him candidly: "We want operational...
Last week the U.S. State Department released the pictures of the Soviet recruiting sessions, showing Sevastyanov hard at work at espionage, and demanded that he leave the country pronto. He did-the 27th Russian diplomat declared persona non grata since...