Accused Spy Returns to Moscow on Arrest Anniversary
Nicholas Daniloff, a former U.S. news magazine correspondent once jailed by the KGB as a spy, said he was leaving for Moscow on Friday--the fifth anniversary of his arrest that sparked an international incident.
Daniloff said that really was not the original plan.
“That was just a coincidence, actually,” Daniloff, now a professor at Northeastern University, said in a telephone interview. “I was planning to go on Sunday but I couldn’t get reservations, so I’m flying tonight.”
Daniloff, former Moscow correspondent of the weekly U.S. News & World Report, was seized by KGB agents Aug. 30, 1986, and charged with spying.
He was freed a month later in a deal that also brought the release of Gennady Zakharov, a Soviet physicist charged with espionage in the United States.
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