The World - News from Jan. 16, 1985
Spain expelled a Soviet diplomat for “improper” activity--a diplomatic euphemism for espionage, the Madrid government said. The announcement came hours after sources said that Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko will visit Madrid in February. A Foreign Ministry spokesman identified the expelled diplomat as Yuri Kolesnikov, second commercial secretary at the Soviet Embassy in Madrid.
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