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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!
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<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."
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