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Vacation in the Caribbean. A high-priced girlfriend. A luxury Washington apartment. Onetime senior Soviet Diplomat and U.N. Under Secretary-General Arkadi Shevchenko, 48, has hardly maintained a classless society's life-style since he defected to the U.S. last spring. After being debriefed by the CIA, he has not only enjoyed freedom of movement, but also savored the fruits of capitalism. Using at least four aliases and always trailed in public by a CIA or FBI bodyguard, the Ukrainian has been frequenting Washington's bars and discos and relaxing at resorts in the Caribbean and Pennsylvania...
Last week the cover was suddenly blown off Shevchenko's pot-of-gold existence. Judy Chavez, 22, told NBC-TV that the Ukrainian was paying her $5,000 a month for her favors, had given her $14,000 for a Corvette sports car and taken her on a whirlwind vacation in the Virgin Islands. In all, claimed the kiss-and-tell brunette, she had received between $35,000 and $40,000, which Shevchenko had been given by "a high official in the CIA." Later, at a Manhattan press conference, she added that Shevchenko had paid her in sequentially numbered...
...tale, saying it was a CIA propaganda ploy to induce more Russians to defect. Another diplomat quipped that perhaps there should be a new bumper sticker proclaiming: DEFECTORS HAVE MORE FUN. In Washington, the CIA saw less to be amused about. Director Stansfield Turner explained that while Shevchenko "is receiving compensation from the CIA commensurate with his services and value to the U.S.," he is getting nothing for a "female companion." Jimmy Carter got into the act by observing at his press conference that sums such as those reported by Chavez "would be highly inflationary - contrary to my [anti-inflation...
...Shevchenko's easy exposure has embarrassed the CIA. One of its former top officials complained that the agency handled the case "like a bunch of Keystone Kops." It is also quite possible that the CIA has been relatively lax with Shevchenko because he has been far less valuable as an intelligence source than had been anticipated. Although one of the highest-ranking Soviets ever to defect, he had little knowledge of the inner workings of current Soviet policies or intelligence operations. His reputation at the U.N. for heavy drinking and a weakness for shapely women may have...
...Whatever Shevchenko's current value to the U.S., the CIA must continue protecting him, if only to keep from discouraging other would-be defectors. The first step is for the CIA once again to cloak him in anonymity. Shevchenko thus has gone back into hiding to await his new identity and ponder the fact that even in the U.S. you have got to be careful about whom you tryst...