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WORLD, Page 61World NotesESPIONAGEYeah? Well, Take That!
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.
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."