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...latest jailing, of Sergeant John Weirick, 26, spread the contamination to the U.S. consulate in Leningrad, where Weirick, too, allegedly permitted KGB agents to enter at the urging of a Soviet woman. That prompted the State Department to cut off all electronic communications with the consulate and order the recall of the six-man Marine contingent in Leningrad, as it had earlier recalled the 28-man detail at the Moscow embassy. Ominously, Weirick's alleged collaboration with the KGB occurred in 1982, four years earlier than the Moscow treachery, indicating a long-standing security breach...
Weirick also was alleged to have been led to the KGB by several women he encountered while stationed at the Leningrad consulate. He left Leningrad in 1982 and was transferred to Rome, where investigators contend that he bragged to a colleague of having earned some $350,000 from the Soviets...
...Soviet Union, where a total of 77 people have died in weather-related incidents since early January. Soviet news reports attributed 48 of those casualties to fires, most of them caused by defective heaters. An additional 29 people were crushed under avalanches in the Georgian republic. Temperatures in Leningrad dropped to -31 degrees F, the lowest reading there since meteorological data were first kept in 1743. In Moscow, where the thermometer hit -32 degrees, the city's residents burned twice their normal daily average of gas and fuel oil and overworked heating systems failed in many apartment buildings...
...reportedly working as a translator at the embassy. The woman took him home a number of times, introducing him to her "Uncle Sasha," who was actually a KGB agent. The translator had been among 260 Soviets employed by the U.S. embassy in Moscow and the consulate in Leningrad until the Kremlin pulled them out last October to protest Washington's expulsion of 80 Soviet diplomats...
When Artists Valeri and Lidya Klever left Leningrad for the U.S. ten years ago, they left in anger. Soviet authorities had shut down exhibits of the couple's abstract paintings, which convinced the Klevers that they had to head for the West in search of artistic freedom. Last week the Klevers returned to the Soviet Union, sounding angrier than ever. While Valeri had at last been free to create, he had also managed to sell few works. That forced his wife to take menial jobs during an odyssey that led the Klevers from New York City to Maine to California...