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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Says a former American intelligence officer: "Shevchenko was a very big catch indeed. He had been in a lot of key places deep inside the Soviet apparatus at key times--places where we rarely get any kind of glimpse at all. He had a lot to tell us." Now, seven years later, he is telling the world. His memoir, Breaking with Moscow, is to be published this month (Knopf; 378 pages; $18.95). A resident of Washington, Shevchenko lives comfortably off lecture fees ($6,000 to $12,000 a speech). His American wife Elaine, whom he married in late 1978, helped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking with Moscow | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...most sensational revelation in Shevchenko's memoir is that he had been working as an agent-in-place for the CIA for 2 1/2 years before his defection. But the book is far more than a true-life spy story. It is rich in insights into the life of the Soviet elite, the personal rivalries and bureaucratic infighting, the sycophancy and nepotism, and the workings of Kremlin policymaking. Examples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking with Moscow | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...route to the U.S. in 1960 as part of the entourage accompanying Nikita Khrushchev, Shevchenko hears the bumptious Premier mutter threats against the life of then U.N. Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold, who died mysteriously in a plane crash in the Congo a year later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking with Moscow | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...following pages, TIME presents the first of two excerpts from Breaking with Moscow, carrying Shevchenko from his early days as a diplomat through his participation on the edges of the summit meeting between Brezhnev and Richard Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking with Moscow | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...Despite Shevchenko's distaste for the system he left behind, he maintains a high degree of respect for his erstwhile mentor, Gromyko, the book's dominant figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking with Moscow | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

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