RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE CHIEF EXPRESSES SATISFACTION WITH HOTLINE.

The director of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said yesterday that his unorthodox call earlier this month — urging Russians working for foreign intelligence agencies to turn themselves in and to become double agents — is already paying dividends. But Nikolai Kovalev, who heads the chief domestic successor organization to the Soviet KGB, refused to say how many legitimate phone calls the FSB had actually received on its specially dedicated "hotline" number. Kovalev’s original appeal was broadcast by Russian television on June 3. (Itar-Tass, June 24; see Monitor, June 5)

PACE-IPA Agreement Does Not Mean Recognition of CIS.