Word: slepak
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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...espionage in Moscow. The articles accused the U.S. embassy's current first secretary, Joseph Presel, and his predecessor, Melvyn Levitsky, of heading a spy ring that persuaded leading dissidents to provide classified defense material for the Central Intelligence Agency. Curiously, the Americans and their alleged accomplices-Engineers Vladimir Slepak and Anatoli Shcharansky-are Jewish. In talks with Western newsmen, the two engineers promptly denied the allegations. So did State Department sources in Washington, who called Izvestia's charges "preposterous...