EXPULSION OF SOVIET REPRESENTATIVES FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES 1970-81

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United States Department of State
Washington, D.C.
Expulsion of Soviet Representatives
from Foreign Countries, 1970-81
expulsion of Soviet representatives
.rom foreign countries has occurred
regularly since the days of Lenin,
zxplicable in large part by Mos-
cow's way of dealing with other
srates. According to available in-
formation, 27 Soviet officials were
expelled worldwide in 1981, in-
cluding one charged by Danish
authorities with passing money to
?ocal peace and antinuclear groups
and others from Malaysia, Egypt,
and the United Kingdom. In 1980,
by comparison, some 116 Soviet
officials were expelled from Spain,
Canada, New Zealand, and at least
six other countries, 100 of them
from Pakistan when the government
there undertook to reduce the
Soviet presence.
P~hile the majority of Soviets
expelled from foreign countries are
usually charged with espionage (the
surreptitious or clandestine
acquisition of secret information),
an increasing number have been sent
away in recent years because of
involvement in "active measures"
(covert and sometimes overt
influence operations intended to
affect third nations' policies).
Espionage may be of a political,
nilitary, or industrial nature; it
State Dept. review completed.
may also include the attempted
penetration of foreign intelligence
and security services. "Active
measures" operations, on the other
hand, have been found to include
the funding of labor and student
unrest; agitation against an estab-
lished government; clandestine
contact with and.suppart of indig-
enous dissidents and/or separatist
groups; propaganda, deception, and
disinformation activities; and
political influence operations.
This report provides a listing
of those expelled in 1980-81 as
well as a sampling of the major
expulsion cases from the 1970-79
period. The most notable of that
decade included the 105 Soviet
intelligence operatives from the
United Kingdom and 9 from Belgium
in 1971, 60 from Bolivia in 1972, 5
from China in 1974, and 11 from
Canada in 1978. However, since
many countries prefer to avoid
publicity in such cases, the total
number of persona non grata
actions, forced terminations of
assignments, and deportations of
Soviet officials is believed to be
substantially higher tran the lists
indicate.
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accounts, Merkulov
inter alia ar-
ranged through a local KGB agent-
of-influence to have some 150
Danish artists sign an "appeal"
calling for a Nordic nuclear-
weapons-free zone and supplied
funds to have the appeal placed as
an advertisement in a number of
local newspapers. He also al-
legedly maintained clandestine
contact with the Copenhagen-based
Committee for Cooperation for Peace
and Security, an umbrella organi-
zation of about 50 smaller peace-
related associations and groups,
with well-established ties to the
Soviet--dominated World Peace
Council.
Equatorial Guinea
April 28, 1981: Soviet Embassy
in Malabo was asked to reduce the
size of its staff from 195 to an
unspecified number, according to
Madrid radio. The Equatorial
Guinean Military Council also asked
the U.S.S.R. to cease using the
fishing base to which it had access
? at they Guinean port of Luba.
Liberia
March 18, 1981: Aven Muzyken,
second secretary at the Soviet Em-
bassy in Monrovia, was expelled for
engaging in acts "incompatible
with his diplomatic status," ac-
cording to Monrovia radio.
April 2, 1981: Valentin Petrov,
first secretary at the Soviet Em-
bassy in Monrovia, was expelled for
engaging in acts "incompatible
with his diplomatic status," ac-
cording to the April 1 issue of
the Liberian Daily Observer.
EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC
Malaysia
July 13,~~1981: First secretary
Gennadiy Stepanov, second secretary
Vladislav Romanov, and engineer/in-
terpreter Zardat Khamidulin, all
with the Soviet Embassy in Kuala
Lumpur, were expelled for espionage
shortly after the arrest of Sidek
Ghouse, political secretary to the
Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister, on
charges of spying for the U.S.S.R.
The police reportedly seized an
assortment of Soviet-supplied es-
pionage equipment, including a
portable radio transmitter supplied
to Romanov (who was said to have. re-
cruited Sidek) which was used to
summon Sidek for meetings with him.
(Romanov was identified as the KGB
"resident" in Kuala Lumpur.)
Denmark
October 1981: Denmark expelled
Vladimir Merkulov, a KGB case offi-
cer working under the guise of So-
Italy
January 7, 1981: Anatoliy
Zazulin, an employee of the Soviet
Embassy's commercial section in
Rome, was expelled on charges of
espionage.
The Netherlands
April 15, 1981: Vadim Leonov,
TASS correspondent to The Hague,_
was asked to leave the Netherlands
on undisclosed charges..
Norway
April I, 1981: Timor Besedin,
Georgiy Petrov, and Yevgeniy
Mironenko, all with the Soviet
Trade Mission in Oslo, were de-
clared persona non grata and ex-
pelled from Norway, reportedly on
charges of industrial espionage.
(In retaliation, two Norwegian
diplomats who had served previously
in Moscow were declared persona non
rata by the Soviet Foreign Minis-
try and prohibited from entering
the U.S.S.R. in the future.)
S ain
March 6, 1981: Vladimir Yefre-
menkov, second secretary at the
Soviet Embassy in Madrid, was ex-
pelled for espionage. He was
charged with trying to obtain in-
formation about and from the Span-
ish Defense Intelligence Center as
well as about the Movement for the
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Self-Determination and Independence
of the Canary, Archipelago (MPAIAC).
Novosti journalist Yuriy Golovia-
tenko was also implicated with him,
according to press reports, and
left the country hurriedly when his
role was disclosed.
March 27, 1981: Yuriy Bychkov,
Soviet director of Sovhispan (the
joint Soviet-Spanish fishing com-
pany), was expelled on charges of
political involvement and espionage
activities in the .Canary Islands.
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L'n ited K ingdom
August 4, 1981: Second secre-
tary at the Soviet Embassy in Lon-
don, Viktor Lazin, was declared
persona non grata by the British
Government for engaging in activi-
ties "incompatible with his diplo-
matic status," according. to the
London Guardian. Lazin's expulsion
reduced the number of Soviet diplo-
rr,ats in London to 46, the same
number of British diplomats cur-
rently posted in Moscow. (In
accordance with an aide-memoire
delivered to the Soviets when the
British expelled 105 Soviet diplo-
mats en masse in 1971 on charges of
espionage, the U.S.S.R. will not
be permitted to replace Lazin.,)
EgYPt
September 15, 1981: Egypt ex-
pelled Soviet Ambassador Vladimir
Polyakov, six other Soviet Embassy
personnel, and two Soviet corres-
pondents on charges of plotting to
foment sectarian strife in the
country. A statement issued by the
government accused Moscow of re-
cruiting agents in Egypt and ex-
ploiting religious strife as well
as "influencing the spread and
escalation of sectarian strife," in
coordination with leftist elements
in Egypt and unnamed hostile Arab
countries.
Bangladesh
August 1981: Aleksei Zolotukhin
and Vadim Lazarev, both third
secretaries with the Soviet Embassy
in Dacca, were declared persona non
grata by the Bangladesh Government
for assaulting a local security of-
ficial during an incident at Dacca
airport in which Soviet Embassy
officials attempted to smuggle sen-
sitive electronic equipment into
the country.
Pakistan
June 1981: V1adlen Baykov,
Pravda correspondent in Pakistan,
was expelled on charges of engaging
i.n "illegal" and possibly espio-
nage-related activities.
~jANUARY-DECEMBER 1980
Equatorial Guinea
February 1980: Yuriy Kiselev,
consular officer at the Soviet
Embassy in Malabo, was expelled
from Equatorial Guinea on charges
of espionage. He had allegedly
tried to purchase. information con-
cerning the Equatorial Guinean
armed forces.
New Zealand
January 24, 1980: Vsevolod
Sofinskiy, Soviet Ambassador to
Wellington, was declared persona
non grata and subsequently expelled
for having supplied Soviet funds to
the pro-Moscow Socialist Unity
Party (SUP) of New Zealand.. The
Auckland Star reported on January
25 that New Zealand Security
Intelligence. Service electronic
monitoring had caught Ambassador
Sofinsky transferring thousands of
dollars to the SUP. The transfer
was only one of a regular series of
f and transfers.
)EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA
_Canada
January 21, 1980: Igor Bardeyev
(military, naval, and air attache),
Eduard Aleksanyan (assistant mili-
tary attache), and Vladimir Sokolov
(chauffeur to the military at-
tache's office), of the Soviet Em-
bassy in Ottawa, were expelled on
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~charges of espionage. After the domestic radio speculated that the
Soviet Foreign Ministry retaliated four Soviets were involved in
by expelling a Canadian diplomat "agrarian reform" espionage.
from Moscow, the Canadians on Sernen~~r..hev was identified as the
February 7 expelled Vitaliy KGB "resident" in Portugal.
Trofimov, a clerk in the Soviet Spain
Embassy's commercial section.. February 14, 1980:. Oleg Sura-
France
February 9, 1980: Commercial
officer Gennadiy Travkov, third-
ranking official at the Soviet con-
sulate general in Marseille with
the rank of consul, was expelled on
charges .of espionage. .Travkov was
caught photographing documents
described by French officials as
having "important French national
defense value." According to local
press reports, four unidentified
French citizens believed to be
contacts who supplied the Soviets
with sensitive material related to
air and naval defense matters were
also arrested. -
February 28, 1980: Vyacheslav
Frolov, public affairs officer at
the Soviet consulate general in
Marseille, was expelled on undis-
closed charges. Press accounts
speculated that he was involved in
the Travkov affair.
Italy
May 1980: Andrey Kinyapin, em-
ployee of the Soviet commercial
office in Turin, was declared
persona non grata and expelled by
Italian authorities on undisclosed
charges. Local Italian press re-
ports speculated that Kinyapin was
involved in clandestine activities.
Portugal
August 20, 1980: Albert
tdatveyev (minister-counselor),
Yuriy Semenychev (counselor),
Vladimir Konyayev (assistant naval
attache), Aleksandr Kulagin (em-
ployee, military attache office),
all with the Soviet Embassy in
Lisbon, were declared persona non
rg ata and expelled from Portugal on
charges of "interference in in-
ternal Portuguese affairs," in
accordance with Article 9 of the
1961 Vienna Convention, according
to an official Portuguese Ministry
of Foreign Affairs note. Lisbon
nov, director of Aeroflot in Ma-
drid, was expelled on charges of
espionage. He was alleged to have
maintained contact with the Father-
land and Liberty Basque separatist
organization (ETA) and other
"ultraleftist" terrorist groups in
Spain.
February 16, 1980: Anatoliy
Krasilnikov, first secretary at the
Soviet Embassy in Madrid, was ex-
pelled on charges of espionage.
According to Spanish press reports,
he maintained contacts with the
Movement for the Self-Determination
and Independence of the Canary
Archipelago and other "illegal
extraparamilitary organizations"
and had been apprehended with
incriminating information on his
person.
Iran
June 3.0, 1980: First secretary
Vladimir Golovanov of the Soviet
Embassy in Tehran was expelled on
charges of espionage. According
to Iranian domestic radio, he had
been caught handing "espionage
documents" to a foreign resident of
Iran.
August 18, 1980: The U.S.S.R.
was instructed to close one of two
Soviet consular .offices in zran and
reduce its diplomatic staff in
Tehran after Iranian Foreign Minis-
ter Ghotbzadeh at .a July 2 press
conference accused the Soviets of
conducting espionage activities in
Iran. The Soviet consulate in
Isfahan was subsequently closed and
the staff in Tehran cut back.
Pakistan
August-September 1980: Alleged
espionage activities and violations
of the rules governing the dissemi-
nation of propaganda in Pakistan
reportedly led to the departure of
about 100 Soviet diplomats and
staff members from Pakistan.
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Liberia
April 1979: Vladimir Popere-
chniy (first secretary), Mikhail
Timoshkin (Soviet Ambassador's
secretary), and Igor Trekhlebov
(chauffeur), all with the Soviet
Embassy in Monrovia, were expelled
on charges of maintaining contact
with members of the Progressive
Alliance of Liberia (PAL), which
had organized demonstrations
against food price increases, April
14, 1979. The three Soviets were
allegedly seen at PAL headquarters
on the eve of the riot and were
believed to have played a role in
organizing the demonstrations.
Sudan
August 2, 1971: Sudanese
officials expelled Mikhail Orlov,
counselor at the Soviet Embassy in
Khartoum on charges of plotting
against the Nimeiry regime. Short-
ly thereafter, about 200 Soviet
military advisers were expelled
from the country. Within the next
5 years, all Soviet economic and
technical support personnel were
gradually withdrawn from Sudan,
although diplomatic relations were
maintained.
Tunisia
September 23, 1973: Two un-
identified Soviet diplomats were
declared persona non grata and
subsequently expelled by Tunisian
authcrities on charges of "manipu-
lation aimed at Tunisia and a
neighboring country," according to
La Presse de Tunisie. Also impli-
cated in the same espionage-related
activity was an unidentified No-
vosti journalist and a number of
Tunisian Government officials.
China
January 19, 1974: Chinese vice
foreign minister declared persona
non grata first secretary V. Mar-
chenko and his wife, third secre-
tary U. Semenov and his wife, and
military attache's office, all with
the Soviet Embassy irk Beijing, on
charges of espionage.' According to
the protest note delivered to the
Soviet Ambassador, the five were
caught in the outskirts of Beijing
with a Chinese national, Li Hung-
Shu, as they were handing over a
radio transmitter and receiver,
communications timetables, means of
secret writing, and forged border
passes; and receiving intelligence
and "counterrevolutionary docu-
ments." The entire operation was
said to have been filmed by Chinese
security and militia officers,
according to the Chinese press.
Belgium
October 1971: Nine unidentified
Soviet intelligence officers were
expelled on espionage charges.
Canada
January 1974: Pravda corres-
pondent Konstantin Geyvandov was
expelled from Canada on espionage-
related charges.
December 10, 1976: Vladimir
Vassiliev, assistant air attache at
the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, was
declared persona non grata by Cana-
da for "activities incompatible
with his diplomatic status," ac-
cording to the Toronto Globe and
Mail.
July 1977: Valery Smirnov,
assistant military attache at the
Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, was ex-
pelled on espionage -related
charges.
February 9, 1978: Canada ex-
pelled Nikolai Talanov (embassy
counselor); Igor Vartanyan (Soviet
Embassy first secretary in charge
of sports and cultural affairs);
Vladimir Suvorov (second secre-
tary); Oleg Reztsov (embassy at-
tache); Vera Reztsov (embassy
library employee); Anatoly Mikhalin
(Soviet trade officer in Ottawa);
Vadim Borishpolets (Ottawa consular
attache); Vladimir Oshkaderov (Rus-
sian translator at the Internation-
al Civil Aviation Organization
headquarters in Montreal); Yevgeny
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Ivashavich (embassy third secre-
tary} and Pyotr Lellenurm (embassy
seco~:d se r_-enary)--a11 on charges
cf plotting to penetrate the se-
curity apparatus of the Royal Cana-
dian Mounted Police (RCMP}. In
addition, two Soviet officials who
had already returned to Moscow,
Voldemar Veber and Andrei Rrysin,
;ere barred from returning to
Canada. According to Canadian of-
ficials, the Soviets had offered a
Tember of the RCMP "unlimited"
funds fob information on Canadian
intelligence methods and had ac-
taally paid $30,500 over a period
of nearly a year for material de-
liberately supplied by the Cana-
dians. The operations concentrated
e:~ uncovering RCPdP methods used in
ssr?~Teillance of Soviet representa-
fives in Canada.
France
October 16, 1975: French offi-
cials announced the expulsion of
'~:ikhail Solovyev, a member of the
Soviet Embassy commercial section
i~ Paris. French counterespionage
agents arrested Solovyev (who was
:gearing a wig and dark glasses) at
the Notre Dame de la Gare Church,
after he was handed a dossier
allegedly containing plans for a
secret new French jet engine.
July 1, 1978: Colonel Viktor
Penkov, assistant military attache
at the Soviet Embassy in Paris, was
arrested and subsequently expelled
o~ espionage charges.
Italy
February 13, 1970: Italy or-
dered the expulsion of Vladimir
Aleksandrov, a Soviet Embassy
employee, and Lolli Zamoisky, an
Izvestiya correspondent, on charges
of espionage. The two Soviets were
=aid to have received secret mli-
tary information from an unidenti-
~ied Italian noncommissioned offi-
cer who had been arrested the pre-
vious week.
The Netherlands
~Iay 6, 1970: Second secretary
Boris Netrebskiy and Vladimir
S;:arovatov, botl'i with the. Soviet
Embassy in The Hague, were expelled
on charges of espionage. Fallowing
a car accident in which the two
were involved, Dutch police found
among their personal belongings in
the car a map with Dutch military
installations marked on it.
April 7, 1972: First secretary
A. Lobanev, third secretary A.N.
Illarionov, and attache M. Makarov,
all with the Soviet Embassy in
Copenhagen, were expelled on
charges of espionage.
July 1975: A.A. Kiselev, mili-
tary attache with the Soviet Em-
bassy in The Hague, was expelled on
charges of espionage and collecting
Dutch military secrets:
March 30, 1978: According to
local newspapers, S. Cheryayev of
the Soviet Trade Mission and I.
Lopukhov, director of the Soviet
Intourist office in Amsterdam, were
expelled on charges of espionage.
A. Poleshchuk, a Soviet electronics
specialist, employed in the Nether-
lands by the Soviet state companies
Mashniborintorg and Elecktronorg,
was declared persona non grata and
denied future entry into the coun-
try. The three were suspected of
trying to obtain secret information
about the F-16 aircraft and elec-
tronic and military aviation as
well as information related to pro-
duction and research in Dutch mili-
tary industry. Two days later,
Dutch security officials expelled
G. Burmistrov, member of the Soviet
Trade Mission in Amsterdam, and V.
Khlystov, managing director of the
mixed Dutch-Soviet company Elorg
BV, on similar espionage-related
charges.
Norc~~av
September 19, 1970: Valeriy
ilesropov, Soviet engineer and
identified KGB operative attached
to the Norwegian firm Koneisto
Norge A/S, was expelled on charges
of espionage.
April 11, 1973: Third secretary
Yuriy Polyushkin and attache
Valeriy Yerofeyev, both attached to
tY'ie Soviet Embassy in Oslo and
_identiified as KGB operatives, were
expelled on espionage charges.
January 28, 1977: A.
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Printsipal'ov, third secretary at
the Soviet imbassy in Oslo, as well
as an unidentified embassy chauf-
feur, were declared persona non
grata by Norwegian authorities and
expelled for their involvement in
political espionage activities. In
a separate incident, Aleksandr
Dementev, Igor Izachtirinsky, and
Eugenya Klimanov, all with the
Soviet Embassy's commercial sec-
tion, were expelled on charges of
espionage. Also implicated and
charged c~ith espionage against
Norway was Eugenya Zotin, a TASS
correspondent.
February 7, 1977: Gennadiy
Titov, counselor at the~Soviet
.Embassy in Oslo and identified KGB
officer, was expelled on charges of
espionage.
Spain
March 1977: Yuriy Pivovarov,
member of the Soviet commercial
mission in Madrid for 2 years, was
expelled on charges of espionage
(the first expulsion of a Soviet
from Spain since the Spanish Civil
War, according to Diario 16).
Pivovarov was believed to have been
the Soviet military intelligence
(GRU) "resident" in Madrid.
July 4, 1977: Gennadiy
Sveshnikov, director of the
Spanish-Soviet maritime company
INTRAMAR, was expelled on charges
of espionage. Believed to have
been a GRU intelligence officer,
Sveshnikov was arrested by agents
of_ the Spanish High General Staff
in Aranjuez when he tried to dis-
card a packet of documents alleged-
ly concerning Spanish national
security affairs, according to
Diario 16.
April 1978: Yuriy Ysayev, com-
mercial officer with the Soviet Em-
bassy in Madrid, was expelled on
charges of espionage.
clay 1978: Yuriy Popov, identi-
fied only as a Soviet engineer, was
expelled from Spain on charges of
industrial espionage.
Switzerland
February 12, 1970: Aleksei
Sterlikov (first secretary) and
Nikolai Savin (second secretary),
both with the Soviet Embassy in
Bern, Switzerland, were expelled on
charges of espionage. According to
Swiss officials, the two Soviets
were contacts of Marcel Buttex, a
Swiss spy suspect who had been
arrested 1 week earlier. Buttex
established "letter drops" for So-
viet agents in Switzerland and in
West Germany, according to these
officials.
August 22, 1976: Swiss offi-
cials expelled Eugene Bogomolov,
second secretary at the Soviet
Embassy in Bern, on charges of
political espionage.
June 6, 1978: Vladimir
Bukreyev, Soviet International
Labor Organization (ILO} official
in Geneva, was expelled from
Switzerland on espionage charges.
June 26, 1978: Gregori Myagkov,
Soviet ILO official in Geneva and
KGB operative, was expelled from
Switzerland on unspecified "in-
telligence-related activities."
United Kingdom
June 22, 1971: Lev N. Sherstnev
(first secretary) and Valery S.
Chusovitin (third secretary), both
with the Soviet Embassy in London,
were expelled from Great Britain on
charges of engaging in "intelli-
gence operations" against the
United Kingdom. (Shortly there-
after, Moscow ordered the expulsion
of two British diplomats in Moscow
in retaliation.)
September 24, 1971: Britain ex-
pelled 90 Soviet diplomatic and
other representatives on espionage
charges and barred the return of 15
others who were temporarily out of
the country.. The names of the 105
Soviet intelligence operatives had
been provided 1 month earlier to
British counterintelligence offi-
cers by a ranking KGB defector, who
also provided information on the
planned infiltration into England
of Soviet agents for the purpose of
sabotage; other documents provided
by the defector detailed Soviet
plans for infiltrating segments of
the Royal British Navy.
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Ecuador
July 6, 1971: Three unidenti-
fied Soviet diplomats working at
the Soviet Embassy in Quito were
expelled "for reasons of state and
of internal order," according to
the Ecuadorean Foreign Ministry.
Press accounts speculated that the
diplomats were involved in foment-
ing labor strikes and conflicts.
March 6, 1976: An unidentified
Soviet citizen, described only as a
woman in her early thirties, was
arrested in Yugoslavia on charges
of espionage and acting as a con-
tact between the Soviet consulate
general in Zagreb and pro-Soviet
dissident political groups whose
activities were linked directly to
anti-Tito emigres living in the
U.S.S.R. and Czechoslovakia. Her
arrest coincided with the sudden
departure from Zagreb of Soviet
consul general Yuri Sepelev, who
was ostensibly reassigned to Mos-
cow.
Argentina
November 7, 1970: Yuri Yabov
and Yuri Mamontov, administrative
aides in the commercial section of
the Soviet Embassy in Buenos Aires,
were expelled by Argentine author-
ities for "activities incompatible
with their function as members of a
foreign diplomatic mission." The
two Soviets had been arrested 2
days earlier in a police raid on a
meeting in suburban Belgrano.
Bolivia
April 10, 1972: Sixty Soviet
diplomats working at the Soviet
Embassy in La Paz were expelled on
charges of financing leftist rebel.
movements in the country. Accord-
ing to press reports, only four or
five Soviets were permitted to
remain in La Paz.
Costa Rica
August 19, 1979: Costa Rican
President Carazo declared Soviet
first secretary Yuriy Chernysh and
second secretary Aleksandr Mordov-
yets persona non grata on charges
of inappropriate involvement with
local labor unions during an August
1979 general strike in Costa Rica
over labor and community issues.
Mexico
March 21-22, 1971: Soviet
charge d?affaires, Dimitri Diako-
nov, and four other unidentified
diplomats working at the Soviet
Embassy in Mexico City, were ex-
pelled for engaging in "subversive
activities." Their expulsion from
Mexico was believed to be related
to the arrest 2 days
eariler
of
20
persons described as
revolutionary group
members
trained
of
in
a
guerrilla tactics in North Korea.
The 20 had attended the Patrice
Lumumba Friendship University in
Moscow before going on to
Pyongyang. Diakonov had already
been expelled from Argentina in
1959 and from Brazil in 1963.
India
February 1975: Soviet assistant
military adviser Major Kanvasky and
one other unidentified Soviet of-
ficial were expelled on espionage
charges.
February 1979: Two unidentified
KGB officers allegedly posing as
Soviet diplomats were expelled on
espionage charges.
Sri Lanka
September 3, 1977: Envar Kapba,
secretary of the Georgian Republic
Trade Union Council, and Konstantin
Tuzikov, an official of the Soviet
All-Union Central Council of Trade
Unions, were declared persona non
rata and expelled by Sri Lankan
authorities for "interference in
the internal affairs of Sri Lanka."
Both were in Colombo to attend the
Ceylon Workers Congress.
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