Word: kudriavtsev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dream of power come true. On the platform sat the government's top labor leaders and Faure Chaumon, the ambassador designate who will soon go to Moscow and pick up diplomatic relations with Russia. As the convention gathered, the first Soviet Ambassador to Cuba since 1952, Sergei Kudriavtsev, once expelled by Canada as a spy, flew into Havana and got a big welcome...
...full measure of Russia's ambitions for Cuba was made plain last week in its choice of an ambassador for Havana, Sergei Kudriavtsev. The name should be familiar. Kudriavtsev was, in the findings of a Canadian royal commission, the real head of the Canadian spy ring exposed by the defecting Russian cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko in 1945. The Russians then brazenly assigned him to the U.N. as adviser to the Soviet delegation in 1947, but the appointment stirred such bad publicity that he was recalled inside four months. Russia's man in Havana is obviously expected to head...