Word: petersons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thriller had been written to order by Russia's famed detective novelist, Julian Semyonov-the Soviet Ian Fleming. Spread over five columns of Izvestiya last week, it had some of the suspense but none of the humor of a James Bond story. The tale began as Martha Peterson, 32, a tall, blonde vice consul in the U.S. embassy in Moscow, drove her car to a deserted street in the Soviet capital. Quickly changing from a white dress to a black outfit that would meld into the shadows, she boarded in rapid succession a bus, a streetcar, a subway...
...lady yelled "I am a foreigner!" to alert her Russian accomplice, who was lurking near by, the agents examined the stone she had left at the dead drop. Cleverly concealed inside were espionage instructions, miniature cameras, Soviet currency and gold. Most damning were two ampuls of a deadly poison. Peterson was charged with passing them to a Russian contact who allegedly had used the same poison in an earlier CIA plot to kill an innocent...
...cover in Moscow. Nabbed by Soviet counterintelligence last July, she was photographed with an array of spy gear and quietly allowed to leave the U.S.S.R. under diplomatic immunity. She was reassigned to Washington. Hours after the appearance of the Izvestiya story, the State Department instructed the CIA to put Peterson on leave. She immediately dropped out of sight. In answer to queries about the Izvestiya charges, a CIA spokesman denied only that Peterson had been involved in murder-a crime that U.S. intelligence agents are prohibited from committing by Gerald Ford's 1976 presidential order...
...Peter G. Peterson, chairman of the investment banking firm of Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb, points out that LDCs already receive more than one-third of U.S. exports, including more than 40% of foreign sales of commercial aircraft and electrical machinery. Even the industrializing LDCs that are competing effectively with Northern factories in such products as clothing and shoes, he asserts, buy more from the rich nations than they sell to them. He endorses much more aid to LDCs because he considers them to be potentially "important engines of less inflationary growth for the developed countries...
...Dale Peterson, a spokesman for the CIA, said yesterday the CIA has nominated two members with GS 18 rank--"about the highest rank there is below appointed ones" for participation in the program. He said the Kennedy School contacted the CIA late last year to ask them their views on the program, but he said the CIA had no part in running the program...