Moscow Accused of Slaying American

The security chief of the former Soviet republic of Georgia has accused Russian secret services of ordering the 1993 killing of an American believed to be a CIA agent, a newspaper reported. Fred Woodruff was shot in the head outside Tbilisi, the Georgian capital. The U.S. government ruled it “a random act of violence.” Georgian Security Minister Shota Kviraya accused his predecessor, Igor Giorgadze, of arranging the killing on Moscow’s orders, according to the respected Segodnya newspaper. Giorgadze is said to be in Moscow. A spokesman for the Foreign Intelligence Service, one of several offices that replaced the KGB, called the allegations “groundless.”