Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet blasts began last month after the U.S. denied a visa to Oleg Yermishkin, a suspected KGB agent whom the Soviets wanted to send to Los Angeles as their Olympic attache. Almost immediately, Moscow began to complain not only about the Yermishkin case but about a statement by the U.S. embassy in Moscow that Soviet athletes needed American visas rather than the special identity cards called for in the Olympic charter. Soviet newspapers denounced the "uncontrollable commercialization" of the Games and the "exorbitant" cost of the services to be provided to the teams in Los Angeles. They charged that there...
...actual world of espionage, however, the sellout price can apparently be that low. According to allegations made by an FBI agent after a 15-month investigation, Richard Craig Smith, 40, a former U.S. Army counterintelligence specialist, sold information last year to a Soviet KGB agent for precisely that sum. His betrayal gave away the identity of a U.S. double agent whom Smith had supervised for nearly two years. Smith was arrested last week at Washington's Dulles Airport after voluntarily flying from his home in Bellevue, Wash., to face charges of espionage...
...Army Intelligence and Security Command, which tries to protect the Army against penetration by foreign spies. From October 1976 to July 1978, he was assigned as the case officer to handle a U.S. double agent code-named Royal Miter. The double agent posed as an informant for the KGB but was actually feeding Smith information on Soviet attempts to plant agents in jobs where they could acquire sensitive details about the U.S. Army. Smith met periodically with Royal Miter, although the FBI will not disclose where the double agent operated or even give his nationality...
...good family man, he dabbled in various real estate investments but declared bankruptcy in the summer of 1982. An affidavit filed in court by FBI Agent Michael J. Waguespack contends that Smith has admitted taking many trips in 11981 and 1982 to Japan, which was then a hotbed of KGB activity, according to the testimony of a Soviet defector. On three occasions in the course of those trips, Smith met Victor Okunev, a Soviet consular-affairs official in Tokyo. Short, fluent in Japanese, and an active member of the Japan-Soviet Union Friendship Association, Okunev is assumed by U.S. officials...
Washington spokesmen expect that Okunev will be recalled from his Tokyo assignment by his KGB superiors, who not only now know the identity of Royal Miter but probably of other U.S. spies as well. U.S. officials refused to reveal the fate of Royal Miter, but, said one: "We're concerned about the safety of a lot of double agents. Smith hurt...