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Within days of her arrest, the Oslo government expelled six Russians, including the Soviet embassy's third secretary, A.K. Printsipalov, the KGB operative who was caught passing documents to Haavik. Last week still another Russian departed on a one-way trip to Moscow. He was G.F. Titov, officially a counselor in the Soviet embassy in Oslo but in fact the KGB spy master for the entire Norwegian operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: From Russia with Lovers | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

Suspicions were aroused again just a few years ago, when Foreign Ministry officials began noting how uncannily well informed Soviet diplomats seemed to be on confidential Norwegian positions regarding European Community membership. Norwegian counterintelligence slapped a tight surveillance on Soviet diplomats in Oslo and eventually caught Printsipalov meeting with Haavik. After tracking the pair painstakingly for several months, they finally sprang their trap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: From Russia with Lovers | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

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