Word: meshcheriakov
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Improving Relations. The Soviet delegation is housed in a Draculesque castle on a forest-trimmed hilltop three miles north of Luxembourg City; the mission is protected by two stone walls equipped with television and other electronic surveillance devices. The embassy's first secretary and press officer, Anatoli Meshcheriakov, lamely justifies the mission's size on the ground that his government is interested in improving relations with Luxembourg...
That, according to Western intelligence sources, is a likely story. They say that at least a dozen of the embassy's officials are members of either the KGB, the Soviet secret police, or the GRU, the Soviet military's intelligence section. Meshcheriakov himself is said to be the KGB station chief; the cultural attache, one Lev Gaganov, station chief for the GRU. Moreover, the weekly Aeroflot flights to Luxembourg, which began last July, were negotiated by a KGB operative who was expelled from France three years ago for industrial espionage...
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