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Seventeen years ago, Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva took a taxi in New Delhi to the U.S. embassy, where she asked American officials for asylum. The Soviets had allowed her to visit India in order to take home the ashes of her common-law husband, who had died of a respiratory disease. After asylum was granted, she flew to New York, where she greeted reporters at the airport with "Hello there, everybody." She explained her electrifying defection by declaring that in the U.S. she would seek "the self-expression that has been denied me so long in Russia...
Last May, Miller began meeting with Svetlana after work. As their relationship blossomed, he poured out his financial and personal woes. On Aug. 12, Ogorodnikova told Miller that she was a KGB major and asked him to sell her information. Less than a week later, in a Malibu restaurant, he agreed but demanded to meet the paymaster first. Ogorodnikova led Miller to her apartment and husband, whom she introduced as Nikolai Wolfson, a KGB operative well versed in transactions "on this level." Miller demanded $50,000 in gold; Wolfson agreed...
...week later, Svetlana and Miller drove her Mercury to San Francisco in order to hand over her reports and messages to the Soviet consulate. Among the items: a 1983 FBI handbook titled Reporting Guidance: Foreign Intelligence Information, which contains a detailed picture of U.S. counterintelligence activities and techniques. Miller had photocopied it in his office. As she dropped Miller off at a restaurant three blocks from the consulate, the Soviet spy asked him for his black leather FBI credential case containing his ID and badge to prove his authenticity to her Soviet contacts. He handed them over and waited patiently...
...bugged her phone. Agents spotted Miller handing his companion a legal-size envelope in a parked car in a darkened lot. Days later they observed him transferring a briefcase from the trunk of her car to his. Wiretaps revealed that Miller had agreed to fly to Vienna with Svetlana on Oct. 9 to meet with a high-level KGB official and that he had already secured his passport, she their tickets. On Sept. 28, Miller was called into the Los Angeles field office, then given lie-detector tests, fired and arrested. A search of his bungalow uncovered an embarrassing array...
...linked twice with Soyuz "ferries" that carried two visiting crews up and then back down again. The visitors chalked up a few firsts of their own. One craft, launched in April, carried the first Indian space traveler, Rakesh Sharma, who performed yoga exercises on board. A July ship brought Svetlana Savitskaya, who had been aloft in 1982 and this time became the first woman to walk in space: she spent three hours outside her Soyuz capsule testing a welding device. Two of the Salyut 7 crew did a five-hour space walk to replace a faulty valve assembly...