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...difficult to believe that the Soviets would risk using a KGB official as important as Yurchenko in a sting operation against the CIA. There is always the chance that the agent might defect for good or be forced to reveal valuable information. "If you were chief of the KGB, would you pick an agent who knew all your agents and send him on a mission like this?" asks former CIA Director Richard Helms...
Even many who support the CIA's contention that it was not hoodwinked by a fake question the agency's treatment of Yurchenko. Though the CIA in the past has kept defectors virtually imprisoned (KGB Officer Yuri Nosenko, who defected in 1964, was held in a tiny prison cell for nearly four years while U.S. intelligence officials bickered over whether he was a Soviet plant), the policy today is to give them as much freedom as possible in order to reinforce their belief in the American system. Yet sometimes that approach is sloppily executed. Yurchenko, for example, allegedly was left...
...world of espionage is akin to stepping "into an infinite line of mirrors where it's impossible to detect reality from reflection." The world may never even learn the ultimate fate of Yurchenko, who is now probably undergoing another heavy bout of debriefing, this time, of course, by the KGB. "Yurchenko will go home to a hero's welcome, be put on the lecture circuit there, and then, when nobody's looking, be shot--if he's lucky," predicts a senior official of the U.S. intelligence community. That scenario assumes, of course, that Yurchenko is what he appears...
Although he had admitted passing a classified FBI manual to his blond KGB lover Svetlana Ogorodnikova in exchange for promises of $65,000 and a $675 trench coat, the defense insisted that Miller was trying to infiltrate a Soviet spy ring. One of the two jurors who voted against the conviction on three major counts of espionage later told the Los Angeles Herald Examiner that he felt the confession had been coerced. "He was browbeaten and swayed by the [FBI] interrogation," said the dissenting juror. "He would have signed anything put in front of him." Undeterred, prosecuting U.S. Attorney Robert...
...sure, defectors traditionally move west, and no one lately has made a compelling case for the Soviet Union as a Utopia of artistic freedom. But White Nights sails giddily over political realities like the farm animals in a Chagall landscape. When Kolya Rodchenko (Baryshnikov) is "welcomed back" by the KGB, he is put in the custody of Raymond Greenwood (Gregory Hines), a black tap dancer who defected from the U.S. after Viet Nam. Poor Raymond is a neurotic mess; glamorous Kolya has the nimble tread of melancholic star quality. Raymond agonizes about his family back home; Kolya never visits...