The Nation - News from Jan. 29, 1986
A top White House official, in a rare public statement, said reports of a high-level Soviet defection to the West are untrue “to the best of the knowledge of the United States government.” The official, national security adviser John M. Poindexter, acted in response to weekend news reports that the CIA, in a major intelligence coup, had helped a high-ranking KGB officer defect to the United States last year.
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