The Nation - News from Jan. 28, 1986
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A White House spokesman denied published reports that a senior Soviet KGB major-general defected to the United States last spring, and intelligence experts questioned the reports. An FBI spokesman said: “We know of nobody who fits that description.” Asked to comment on a report in a news magazine about the purported high-ranking defector, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said: “This KGB defector described in U.S. News & World Report is not so.”
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