RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE OFFICER DEFECTS TO U.S.?

Russian news sources reported on May 20-21 that a senior officer serving in the central administration of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has defected to the U.S. Reports said that Lt. Col. Oleg Morozov had presented himself and his family to U.S. intelligence officers in Bern, Switzerland, and that he has been flown to Washington on a CIA plane. The SVR has refused comment on the report. (Argumenty i fakty, May 20; AP, May 21)

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