Word: enger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trade had been made possible by a pair of bungling KGB agents, Valdik Enger and Rudolf Chernyayev, who were arrested last May for trying to buy secret information from a U.S. naval officer; in October they were sentenced to 50 years in prison for espionage. Even before the trial ended, negotiations for a swap began. President Carter directed National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski to conduct the talks with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. The discussions went on for months in the offices of both negotiators, occasionally in Brzezinski's house in McLean, Va., where his daughter and Dobrynin...
Along with fellow dissidents Aleksandr Ginzburg, Mark Dymshits, George P. Vins and Edward S. Kuznetsov, Moroz was exchanged on Friday for Valdik A. Enger and Rudolf P. Chernyayev, both United Nations employees convicted last year of spying for the Soviet Union and sentenced to 50 years...
...broad significance of Moscow's chilling move against the U.S. reporters was not yet known, the joint release of two accused Soviet agents in exchange for the freeing of American F. Jay Crawford was an upbeat note. The alleged spies, United Nations Employees Rudolf Chernyayev and Valdik Enger, had been indicted in New Jersey by a grand jury on charges of obtaining U.S. Navy secrets...
...disclosures four weeks ago that the FBI had captured three Soviet spies in Woodbridge, N.J. One of the Russians, a staff member of the Soviet mission to the U.N., had diplomatic immunity and was swiftly sent home. The other two, United Nations Employees Rudolf Chernyayev and Valdik Enger, were indicted by a grand jury on charges of passing U.S. Navy secrets and jailed with the unusually high bail of $2 million each. FBI leaks to the press ridiculed the agents as ham-fisted operatives who had been caught with an orange-juice carton full of phony antisubmarine warfare documents that...
...work on this new mission, making the final drop at Woodbridge just before the FBI closed in. The agents had no problem identifying their quarry: Enger and Chernyayev had used cars-observed near the drop-off points-registered in their own names...