The Nation - News from Aug. 1, 1985
Arkady Shevchenko, a CIA spy and the highest-ranking Soviet official ever to defect to the United States, labeled “absolutely ridiculous” an article charging that his best-selling memoirs are a fraud. “I always have a great respect for freedom of the press in the Western world,” Shevchenko said. “But it’s amazing . . . the way that freedom is used or abused. . . . It’s what I call terroristic journalism.” The former U. N. undersecretary general said he did not mean to point a finger at Edward Jay Epstein, author of an attack on his book, “Breaking With Moscow,” in The New Republic.
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