The World - News from June 10, 1987
Switzerland said it expelled a Soviet diplomat for spying and reported that Moscow responded by ordering a Swiss Embassy official to leave the Soviet capital. Vladimir Khorochilov, a first secretary at the Soviet Embassy in Bern, was ordered to leave May 14 after he was found to have engaged in economic and political espionage with the help of a Swiss computer expert, authorities said. In apparent retaliation, the Soviet Foreign Ministry told the Swiss Embassy in Moscow on Friday that its first secretary, Erich Pirchner, would have to leave the country within a week for allegedly violating his diplomatic status.
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