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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...
There was no joy in Odessa. Telephones rang and excited voices demanded, "Give us back Kudymenko, Zhigan and Sevastyanov!" The staid Soviet trade-union newspaper Trud headlined excitedly: "Kidnaping in Odessa." Three of the city's leading football (i.e., soccer) heroes -as dear to Odessa as Williams to Boston or Feller to Cleveland-had disappeared...
...days later, the mystery was cleared up. Kudymenko, Zhigan and Sevastyanov popped up in the line-up of the Kiev Dynamo team, which needed extra strength for a big game with Leningrad. No matter how loudly they squawked, Odessa fans could do no more about it than Detroit fans could when the Tigers sold Hank Greenberg. Local officials explained, "Alas, it's all over. It's out of our hands now." The Kiev Dynamo, like all the Dynamo soccer teams, is sponsored by the Soviet secret police...