Volume 32, Number 6 · April 11, 1985
Odd Man Out
By Conor Cruise O'Brien
Breaking with Moscow
by Arkady N. Shevchenko
Knopf, 378 pp., $18.95
Shevchenko was the senior Soviet citizen in the United Nations Secretariat, with the rank of undersecretary general, when he defected to the United States in April 1978. For several years before that—since 1973 apparently—he had been reporting to the CIA on matters coming to his knowledge in the course of his work as a senior Soviet diplomat, working within the United Nations, and as a trusted protégé of the Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko.
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