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American conservatives grumbled that the deal amounted to the swap of an innocent hostage, Daniloff, for a real spy, Zakharov, a trade the Reagan Administration had sworn never to countenance. Republican Presidential Hopeful Jack Kemp charged that the Administration had set a "terrible precedent" by letting Moscow get away with hostage taking, and Conservative Caucus Chairman Howard Phillips expressed himself more pungently to the New York Daily News. Said Phillips: "This Administration's foreign policy has been to kiss the Russian bear's bottom, and he keeps turning the other cheek." Administration officials replied that the U.S. had secured...
Daniloff was back home as part of a multilayered deal that could not be called a deal between the U.S. and the Soviets, which included the no-contest plea and departure of Soviet Spy Gennadi Zakharov, the imminent release of Soviet Dissident Yuri Orlov, and the softening of a U.S. order expelling 25 Soviet employees at the U.N. For 31 days, Daniloff had been the human symbol of the tense, complicated maneuverings between the superpowers. Yet throughout his publicized ordeal, he had not merely symbolized the difficult bargaining between Reagan and Gorbachev but had become a participant, publicly insisting that...
Daniloff's plane touched down about 40 minutes after a Soviet Aeroflot jet carrying Zakharov had left Washington for Moscow. On Tuesday the calm and dapperly dressed Zakharov had stood before Judge Joseph McLaughlin in Brooklyn's federal courthouse and changed his plea on charges of espionage from not guilty to no contest. The Soviets had agreed that if the first two espionage charges against him were dropped, Zakharov would be put on five years' probation for the third count, provided that he quit the U.S. within 24 hours. Zakharov, like Daniloff, seemed to relish his moment in the media...
Daniloff, similarly, said that he would someday like to return to Moscow to lay flowers once again on the grave of his ancestor, about whom he is planning a book. But Daniloff insisted that, unlike Zakharov, he had come through the experience with his honor unsmudged. Yet was not the complex arrangement merely a fig leaf disguising the swap of Daniloff for a spy? "In my case," Daniloff responded, "the investigation into the charges against me was concluded. There was no trial, and I left as an ordinary free American citizen. In Zakharov's case, there was a trial...
...year-old correspondent for U.S. News and World Report was arrested for espionage on August 30 by the Soviet secret service, in apparentretaliation for the arrest of accused Soviet spyGennadiy Zakharov in New York a week earlier...