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...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...
...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...
...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...
During the deep chill between Moscow and Washington over the past several years, many American specialists on Soviet affairs speculated that Gromyko had become the No. 1 hard-liner in the Kremlin and, as such, the principal obstacle to an improvement in relations. Nonsense, says Shevchenko. He is convinced that Gromyko is committed to the restoration of detente--a policy that Shevchenko, too, favors. Thus, paradoxically, Shevchenko's book is not just a denunciation of the Soviet leadership. It is also a grudging defense of one of that leadership's most powerful and conspicuous members...
...Machiavelli were alive and living in the Soviet elite today, he would be a student, not a professor." So writes Arkady Shevchenko in the second and concluding excerpt from his memoirs, to appear next week in TIME. Shevchenko recounts how, finally fed up with the Soviet system despite his privileged place in it, he seeks and is promised asylum in the U.S.--but only after he agrees to become "a reluctant spy." For the next 2 1/2 years he lives in constant fear of discovery by the KGB and in constant guilt about the family he might have to leave...