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- <text id=89TT0819>
- <title>
- Mar. 27, 1989: World Notes:Espionage
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Mar. 27, 1989 Is Anything Safe?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 61
- World Notes
- ESPIONAGE
- Yeah? Well, Take That!
- </hdr><body>
- <p> In tit-for-tat expulsions that left officials on both sides
- of the superpower divide grumbling, the Soviets and the
- Americans each ousted a military attache on charges of
- espionage. The first blow was struck by the U.S. two weeks ago,
- when it expelled Lieut. Colonel Yuri Pakhtusov from the Soviet
- embassy in Washington. State Department and FBI officials
- accused Pakhtusov of having received classified information
- about computer-security programs. Pakhtusov allegedly got the
- documents from an American employee of a U.S. company that does
- business with the Government.
- </p>
- <p> Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov
- denounced the expulsion as a "provocation" and "not in line with
- the spirit of peaceful cooperation." Five days later the Soviets
- responded in kind, ordering U.S. embassy employee Lieut. Colonel
- Daniel Van Gundy to leave Moscow. The charge: attempting to
- enter a closed area and take pictures of military facilities.
- As denials flew on both sides and the threat of further
- expulsions loomed, a Western envoy in Moscow predicted:
- "Relations aren't permanently hurt by this. It's just a shoving
- match."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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