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...Soviet blasts began last month after the U.S. denied a visa to Oleg Yermishkin, a suspected KGB agent whom the Soviets wanted to send to Los Angeles as their Olympic attache. Almost immediately, Moscow began to complain not only about the Yermishkin case but about a statement by the U.S. embassy in Moscow that Soviet athletes needed American visas rather than the special identity cards called for in the Olympic charter. Soviet newspapers denounced the "uncontrollable commercialization" of the Games and the "exorbitant" cost of the services to be provided to the teams in Los Angeles. They charged that there...
Last week it was Washington's turn to throw a somewhat ungraceful feint that left all involved feigning outrage. On the very day he was scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles, the State Department rejected the visa application of Oleg Yermishkin, Moscow's designated attaché to the Summer Games. Yermishkin, who served as a first secretary at the Soviet embassy in Washington from 1973 to 1977, was later tabbed as having been an intelligence agent during that period. Washington read Moscow's attempt to place him for a six-month stay in Los Angeles...
Peter Ueberroth, president of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, disputes a State Department claim that he had been informally advised in December that Yermishkin was an unacceptable choice. Ueberroth called the timing of the decision "deeply troubling." U.S. diplomats chose not to pursue the matter. Said one: "We're paid to take the beating...
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