The Guardian of Liberty - Nemzetőr, 1985 (8. évfolyam, 1-6. szám)
1985-07-01 / 4. szám
12 Defectors Come and Spies Go T he Soviet bloc, particularly the USSR itself, has experienced an unusually large number of defections of its officials in recent months. The latest of these involved Milan Svec, deputy head of the Czechoslovak Embassy in Washington, who was granted political asylum in the United States in May. In March, Igor Gezha, an Information Attaché at the Soviet Embassy in New Delhi; defected and has been given asylum in the USA. In Stockholm, a senior Soviet scientist, Yuri Nagzodsky, applied for political asylum after arriving from Finland early in May. Vladimir A. Alexandrov, a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences specialising in the „nuclear winter“ theory, is reported to have „disappeared“ in Madrid after attending a conference in Spain. Sergei Bokhane, First Secretary at the Soviet Embassy in Athens, defected on May 26. This appears to be the most significant of the above defections. Reports from Greece suggest that Bokhane was in fact deputy chief of Soviet military intelligence (GRU) in this region. He arrived in Greece in 1982, having already served there for four years in the mid-1970s. His seven years in Greece will have given him a detailed insight into the extent of KGB-GRU penetration in Greece. While these defectors were severing their links with the Soviet bloc, other Russians and East Europeans working abroad found themselves returning home sooner than planned. In January, Yuri Kolesnikov, the Soviet Cultural Attaché in Spain, was expelled for „behavior incompatible with that of a diplomat“ — the diplomatic way of describing spying. Also in January ; Stanislav Janczak, an attaché at the Polish Embassy in Paris, was declared „persona non grata“. In April, it was reported that these Sovietbloc officials were expelled from India after being involved in a spy scandal: Jan Haber- | ka, Polish Commercial Attaché in New Delhi; Otto Wicker, an East German; and two Russians, Rudnov Portonov and a man surnamed Kirlov. An unnamed Soviet Trade Delegation official in Cologne, West Germany, was arrested in mid-April. These Soviet officials were expelled from Great Britain on April 18: Captain Oleg Los and Captain Viktor Vasilyeslav Zaiki, Assistant Naval Attachés; Vyacheslav Grigorov, the Aeroflot Charter Manager; Lieutenant-Colonel Vadim Yevgeneyevich Cherkasov, Assisant Military Attaché; and Oleg Yevgeneyevich Belaventsev, a Third Secretary in the embassy's Scientific and Technical Section. In June, an unnamed Bulgarian diplomat was ordered out of Switzerland, and Jankó Jankov, President of the Swiss-Bulgarian Cultural Club; was reported to have been charged with helping diplomats gain access to files of the club, whose members include Bulgarian refugees. Die Welt, an authoritative German newspaper, reported on June 20 that an unnamed Czech spy had been uncovered. Early in July, a senior Soviet diplomat accredited to the United Nations in Geneva was declared „persona non grata“. Ivan Delibaltov, a Bulgarian diplomat on home leave, was told in late July that he would be barred from re-entering Canada. Konstantin Preobrazhensky, a correspondent of Tass, the Soviet Government news agency, has left Tokyo in a hurry after refusing to be questioned by the Japanese police. They said that he was a KGB agent who had tried to gather information on Japan and China from a Chinese student. After monitoring Preobrazhensky's movements, police searched his house and found radio equipment. He was then asked to attend questioning on a charge of intimidating the student. It was after this that he fled Japan. Preobrazhensky, like many other Soviet journalists, had attended Moscow University's Asia and Africa Institute — a known KGB recruiting ground. KGB chief Chebrikov directing espionage „BLANQUISM“ (Continued from page 11) with the backing of a minority. With us it is quite different.“ Where Lenin was really different from Blanqui was in the tactical sense which enabled him to compromise when it was expedient. In Ch. VIII of The Infantile Disease of „Leftishness“ in Communism (May, 1920) Lenin quoted Engels's criticism of a passage in the programme published in 1874 by a group of Blanquists, former members of the Paris Commune and then refugees in London: „We are Communists because we want to attain our goal without stopping at intermediate stations, without any compromises.“ In this respect Lenin was indeed the opposite of Blanqui; that is why he won, and why his followers need watching. AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED the international Catholic Charity aiding priests and Catholic institutions behind the Iron Curtain where Communist atheism make efforts to extingquish religion (See MIRROR on Col. 3). THE ©MEDIÁI Of LIBERTY (NEMZETŐR) Erscheint 2monatlich. 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