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Just as Daniloff was getting sprung from Lefortovo, U.S. marshals in New York City, where it was early afternoon, escorted Gennadi Zakharov from the Metropolitan Correctional Center to a Brooklyn federal courtroom for a hearing that took all of three minutes. The Soviet U.N. employee stood ramrod- straight and stone-faced as Judge Joseph McLaughlin read the espionage charges against him. Zakharov said only, "Not guilty." The judge then told him that "contingent on the prior or simultaneous release of Nicholas S. Daniloff," he too was being let go in the custody of his ambassador. Other conditions also were nearly...
...parallel procedures looked like the first steps toward exactly what the Reagan Administration had repeatedly vowed not to arrange: a straight swap of Zakharov for Daniloff. Washington appeared to be conceding that the cases should be treated as equivalent, despite its repeated thunders that Zakharov is a real spy arrested in the act of trying to buy classified documents while Daniloff is the innocent victim of a crude KGB frame-up that began when a Soviet acquaintance thrust a package of documents into his hands in Moscow...
Administration officials believe the Soviets arrested Daniloff to gain leverage in their attempt to win the release of Gennadiv Zakharov, an employee of the United Nations. American security agents arrested the Soviet physicist and charged him with spying on August...
...Pinching Nick served to give the Russians leverage in the release of Zakharov while pinching Western journalists as well," Kondracke said yesterday. Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev fears that Western journalists are ruining his reformer image by reporting news contrary to party line, he added...
...issue until at least Monday. Instead, Reagan sent a private letter to Gorbachev in which, according to a spokesman, he "gently but firmly" asserted Daniloff's innocence and demanded his release. Word was passed to the Soviets that they should resubmit their request to the judge in the Zakharov case to have the accused spy transferred to the custody of the Soviet Ambassador...