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MOSCOW -- A fugitive ex-CIA agent, who was accused of selling U.S. intelligence secrets to Moscow, has been given political asylum in the Soviet Union, the government newspaper Izvestia said today...
...Izvestia identified Howard simply as "a former CIA worker" and said he had applied for asylum...
...request was motivated by the fact that he has been forced to hide from the special services of the United States, which were persecuting him without grounds," Izvestia said...
Writing in the government newspaper Izvestia, handball coach Anatoly Yevtushenko said yesterday that Olympic officials should take "concrete, wise steps" to preserve the ideals of the Games...
...article in Izvestia last week, the Soviets countered that the Marine had been rowdy and drunk and that the police had intervened only to save his life after he had wandered into traffic. Yet in the past six months, the U.S. claims, security agents or other Soviets in Leningrad have arrested, detained and harassed at least a dozen Americans, including diplomats, without provocation. Said a State Department official: "This is intended to convey our considerable unhappiness...