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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...served in Paris as a UNESCO official. Shortly before Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev arrived in Paris on a good-will visit in 1976, Rybachenko was caught receiving secret documents that described a French Defense Ministry computer system. Rybachenko was expelled. Then there was the gift by Colonel Vassili Denisenko, the Soviet military attaché in Switzerland, to an under cover KGB spy of 13 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: KGB: Russia's Old Boychiks | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...initiated a correspondence in my name with Vassili Orekhov, the director of the Russian National Association. It is a small émigré organization based in Brussels that deals with czarist military history. The KGB devised letters in which my handwriting was forged. At first the letters contained only innocent requests for information about the first World War. Then followed a suggestion, purportedly from me, that Orekhov come to Prague or send a representative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Solzhenitsyn v. the KGB | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

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