Zakharov Whisked From Soviet Airport Through Special Exit
Soviet U.N. employee Gennady F. Zakharov, who pleaded no contest to spying charges in a New York court, arrived home today aboard an Aeroflot flight and left the airport by a special exit, fellow passengers said.
The regularly scheduled Aeroflot flight from Washington that Zakharov boarded Tuesday in the U.S. capital arrived at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport about 10 a.m., but Zakharov did not emerge from the normal customs channels.
Soviet passengers who were aboard the flight said that they had seen Zakharov on the plane and that he was taken out of the Moscow airport through a special exit.
Zakharov, after being placed on five years probation Tuesday, was allowed to leave the United States under the same superpower accord that freed U.S. reporter Nicholas Daniloff, charged by the Soviets with spying.
Daniloff flew to the West on Monday.
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