Word: karpovich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thompson says that once back in the U.S. he reneged on the Russians and did no more spying while in service. He got an honorable discharge in December 1958 and went to Detroit. There he was approached by a Russian named Boris Karpovich, a Soviet embassy counselor in Washington who was kicked out of the U.S. in January. Boris told him to get a job with the FBI. Thompson, a high school dropout, said with rare perspicuity that he doubted the FBI would hire him. For nearly two years thereafter the Soviets left him alone...
Garant gets around all this. Managed by a troika of Soviet citizens headed by Sergei Karpovich, 40, the company handles just about everything from automobile to aviation insurance, but its big business is insurance for exporters dealing with the Communists (including Red China). Luring Western businessmen with premiums as low as 0.1%-"completely unrealistic," complains one Western insurer-it pulls in trade by writing policies for almost every conceivable business risk. "What success do you suppose we'd have," asks one West German insurer, "in bringing action against a Communist state railway for negligence?" Garant has won a reputation...