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Film: Ukranian Institute--"Taras Shevchenko." 7:30 p.m., Science Center D. Free...
Film: Ukranian Institute--"Taras Shevchenko." 7:30 p.m., Science Center D. Free...
DIED. Lengina Shevchenko, 48, wife of Soviet Diplomat Arkadi Shevchenko, who last month defected from the U.S.S.R. and resigned his Manhattan post as an Under Secretary-General of the United Nations; of an overdose of pills; in Moscow...
Soviet officials at the U.N., whose own careers will be compromised by Shevchenko's defection, hastened to offer other explanations. Second Secretary Yevgeni Lukyantsev of the Soviet Mission insisted that "Shevchenko had a drinking problem. It is quite possible that the FBI or the CIA caught him." One of Shevchenko's aides at the U.N., Vyacheslav Kuzmin, believed to be the KGB officer who was assigned to keep him under surveillance, asserted that "he is a sick man who must be sent back to Moscow so he can get the medical care he needs." Other U.N. officials speculated...
There was another reason for Shevchenko to defect. TIME has learned that for two years he has been secretly talking to U.S. intelligence officers. In recent weeks he has offered to explain which American agency-presumably either the CIA or the FBI-had been deluded by Soviet agents who fed them "disinformation" prepared by the KGB. According to one source, Shevchenko's price for this interesting secret is about $100,000 a year. If the U.S. should reject his terms, Shevchenko has the alternative of giving similar information to five other nations whose secret services have been in touch...