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Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin's only daughter, first made headlines in 1967 when, during a trip to India, she defected to the West. In 1984 she was back in the news when she unexpectedly returned to the Soviet Union with her American-born daughter Olga. Once in Moscow, Svetlana bitterly charged that in the West she had been "not free for one single...
...week's end British diplomats in both London and Moscow announced that Olga, 15, has been given a British visa, and will return to Britain before the end of the month to re-enroll in a Quaker school that she formerly attended. There were no indications that Svetlana would follow her daughter...
...poor recommendation for the job. But as his recruiter points out, "Obviously if you've survived in New York City you know how to lie and cheat and dissemble: spying should be just your meat." Wren goes off to more of a welcome than he bargains for from Olga, the Amazonian ringleader of the Liberation Front, and less help than he needs from Clyde McCoy, American drunk and pornographer, the Firm's resident operative in Saint Sebastian...
...when Olga came to Cambridge for a short vacation, Svetlana sprang the news that they were leaving for the Soviet Union. Whether she said they were going for a visit or for good is not known. What is certain is that Olga did not want to go. The Mansfields heard the yelling in the flat below. At first they thought it was another one of Svetlana's tirades. Then they realized it was Olga who was shouting. "Why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you consult with me?" Two days later mother and daughter were in Moscow. Said...
...mother. When U.S. television cameramen spotted Svetlana looking grim and angry on the streets of the capital, she went out of control, showering them with obscenities in English. Dissatisfied by the cool official welcome she received, she has several times displayed her temper to the Soviet authorities. Olga, who, like her mother, still retains her U.S. citizenship, refused to wear the regulation uniform at a Moscow school. She came to class with a cross hanging around her neck...