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Richard Miller, 47, was a 20-year veteran of the FBI whose counterintelligence work gave him easy access to secret documents dealing with the activities of Soviet aliens. Apparently for love and money, he passed a broad sampling to Svetlana Ogorodnikova, 34, a Russian emigre and suspected spy for the Soviet KGB. Last week Miller, Ogorodnikova and her husband Nikolai, 51, were arrested. Miller was the first FBI agent ever charged with espionage, and his case shocked an agency that had prided itself on its professionalism. FBI Director William Webster called it "an aberration on the proud record of patriotic...
...couple clashed conspicuously with their fellow expatriates. "We laughed at them," says Alexander Polovets, publisher of a Russian-language newspaper. Ogorodnikova collected welfare, rented Russian-made films to show in neighborhood theaters, and bragged openly of her high-level Soviet contacts. FBI agents, who interviewed Svetlana often after 1980, welcomed the tidbits she freely offered about her frequent visits to the Soviet consulate in San Francisco, but never considered that the shrill, boastful housewife could actually be a dangerous...
...Astronaut Kathy Sullivan had hoped that on a shuttle flight next October she would become the first woman to walk in space. Last week, however, Soviet Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya, 36, beat her to it. Accompanied by the mission commander, Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Savitskaya spent 3 hr. 35 min. outside the Salyut7 space station, wielding an experimental tool to cut and solder metal plates. Shaped like a large camera, the all-purpose, hand-operated device emits a laser-like beam of electrons. Savitskaya and Dzhanibekov then switched roles, and she photographed him as he worked...
Though such glimpses into Mafia domestic life are rare, they appear eerily familiar. Indeed, the Mafia princess bears a family resemblance to another victim of unbounded evil, the princess of the Kremlin. In Svetlana Alliluyeva's 1967 memoir Twenty Letters to a Friend, Stalin's daughter tells similar tales of disappearing family friends, and her father often made a show of mourning those he had ordered killed. Svetlana too was forbidden to pursue her chosen career, in this case, literary scholarship, and was denied her first lover, a Jew. Though both daughters ultimately escaped from their palatial prisons...
...remains a popular public figure and has taken on such ceremonial chores as addressing a huge peace rally in Moscow's Olympic stadium last month. But if Tereshkova's mission was so successful, why did the Soviets wait 19 years before they sent a second woman, Svetlana Savitskaya, 34, into orbit last summer...