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- LETTERS, Page 4Moscow Mission
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- Many allegations contained in the excerpt from Ronald
- Kessler's Moscow Station (BOOK EXCERPT, Feb. 20) I find hard to
- accept, particularly the description of Ambassador Arthur
- Hartman. Hartman increased, rather than diminished, security at
- the U.S. embassy during his service in Moscow, from 1981 to
- 1987. He installed a portcullis gate in the automobile entrance,
- heightened security at the public access entry, investigated the
- KGB's use of spy dust to track embassy personnel and obliged
- officers and guests to wear identification tags. Hartman
- effectively combined toughness with sensitivity.
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- Nicholas Daniloff, Moscow Bureau Chief U.S. News & World
- Report, 1981-86 Cambridge, Mass.
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- In 1986 the Soviets arrested Daniloff on charges of spying,
- apparently in retaliation for the seizure of an accused Soviet
- spy in New York City. Two weeks later, he was released in the
- custody of the U.S. embassy and was ultimately freed.
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