Word: sevastyanov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nights later, Volodya, Ivan and Vanya met again. Hidden all around were FBI men, eavesdropping, shooting movies and taking still pictures They quickly identified Ivan the Driver as Gennadi G. Sevastyanov, 33-a Russian "diplomat" carried on the rolls of the Soviet embassy as a "cultural attaché." He was actually a member of KGB-the Soviet secret police, trying to recruit a spy. "Which side are you on-ours or the Americans?" he asked Vanya. "You could better your position in life if you would cooperate." He quizzed Vanya about his intelligence work, told him candidly: "We want operational...
Vanya brought presents for the family in Russia, for Volodya was due to go home as he had come-disguised as a Soviet government official allegedly on temporary duty with the embassy in Washington. Sevastyanov, apparently convinced he had Vanya signed up as a spy, spilled out a list of secret passwords, meeting places and directions by which Vanya would fall easily into the Soviet spy network in Washington...
After that session, Vanya returned to his U.S. intelligence job, and Volodya went back to Russia unhindered because he was considered "a helpless tool of the secret police." Vanya never saw Sevastyanov again...
Last week the U.S. State Department released the pictures of the Soviet recruiting sessions, showing Sevastyanov hard at work at espionage, and demanded that he leave the country pronto. He did-the 27th Russian diplomat declared persona non grata since...