Word: potashov
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vladimir Potashov: To know what it was like to be betrayed by Ames, one has only to listen to Potashov recount his ghastly experiences. A young disarmament specialist who fed information to the CIA while working in Moscow for the prestigious Institute of U.S.A. and Canada Studies, he was arrested on July...
After being interrogated about a hundred times at Lefortovo prison, always under bright lights, Potashov was sentenced to 13 years and shipped east to the notorious Perm-35 prison camp in the Urals. "After Lefortovo," he said, "there was a 17-day trip in a cage with 15 murderers, all with TB. In Perm I was a transport worker hauling 500 lbs. of metal parts in a handcart. I had to push the cart, and my right shoulder joint broke." Potashov and the other prisoners worked 10 hours a day, six days a week. Although only 37, Potashov aged rapidly...
...Boris Yeltsin, the new Russian President, granted Potashov amnesty. His young wife had been frightened by his arrest, and prison had cost him his marriage. With the help of the CIA, Potashov came to America and remarried. He now lives in the Southern part...
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