Word: shadrin
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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...life of a double agent is not an easy one. Consider the case of Nikolai Artamonov, a former Soviet navy captain who defected to the U.S. in 1959 and later became a double agent, employed by the FBI under the name of Nicholas Shadrin. When Shadrin went to Austria in 1975, ostensibly on a skiing vacation, he stopped off in Vienna for a prearranged meeting with two Soviet secret policemen who thought Shadrin was their agent. While his wife waited in their luxurious suite in the Hotel Bristol, Shadrin kept a rendezvous with the two KGB officers on the steps...
...Shadrin's Polish-born wife Blanka, however, is accusing the FBI of bungling his Vienna mission, then abandoning a loyal American to his fate. The White House has declared that the U.S. is trying to obtain information about Shadrin, a U.S. citizen. But a top State Department official said that Washington could not be expected to give Shadrin's disappearance high priority in U.S.-Soviet relations. After all, he observed, anyone who becomes an agent, especially a double agent, is playing a perilous game-and knows...