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...harshness of the first Soviet retaliation came as a surprise to British officials, who had expected only token reprisals. Last week in London, the Foreign Office summoned Soviet Charge d'Affaires Lev Parshin, denounced the expulsions as "an unwarranted victimization of innocent people" and demanded the departure of six more Soviets. After Moscow matched the new expulsions man for man, Thatcher said that Britain would make "no further response." The British expulsions, she asserted, had "eliminated the core of the subversives." Declared Thatcher: "This shows the Soviet Union in a pretty poor light. They were caught red-handed...
Only a few hours earlier, Soviet Charge d'Affaires Lev Parshin had been summoned to the Foreign Office. There, Deputy Under Secretary David Goodall told him that Oleg Gordievsky, officially an embassy counselor but now also identified as a senior operative of the KGB, the Soviet intelligence agency, had defected to Britain. With that, Goodall handed Parshin a list naming 25 Soviet diplomats, trade officials and journalists whom Gordievsky had identified as spies. Parshin was told that all would have to leave Britain within three weeks...
...meantime, the 25 Soviets fingered by Gordievsky, including three embassy first secretaries, were packing their bags. Nearly half those on the list given to Charge d'Affaires Parshin were purported trade officials. In Britain, as in the U.S. and other Western countries, such representatives spend their time attending industrial shows and gathering all manner of data that might be helpful to Soviet technology. Shortly after the defection had been revealed, a delivery van arrived at the Soviet Trade Mission in London carrying a British-made Apricot home computer. It had been ordered by Viktor Logush, who was on the expulsion...
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