U.S. ENVOY EXPELLED, SOVIETS SAY

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: June 17, 1984
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LT.~. envoy
-e~~~lled,
~~ri~ts say
From Wire and Staff Reports
I~SOSCOW - A Soviet newspa-
per said yesterday that a U.S. Em-
bassy official, who is originally
from Pikesvitle, had been "com-
pelled" to leave the Soviet Union in
February for illegally selling West-
ern consumer goods out of his car
trunk at night.
Bruce L. Rosenberg, a second
secretary in the embassy economic
department, was accused of
"specclating" on the black market
and uistributing anti-Soviet materi-
al, said the labor newspaper Trull.
Air. Rosenberg, 29, returned to the
United States in February and left the
Foreign Service, according to State
department spokeswoman Anita
Stockman. He is living in Washington
but could not be reached for comment.
yesterday. Ivir. Rosenberg, a member
of a prominent Pikesville family, is
the brother of Delegate Samuel I. 8o-
senberg (D,42d).
4n embassy spokesman, who
asked not to be identified, said U.S.
officials had not read the newspaper
article and had no comment on it.
Trod said Mr. Rosenberg was de-
tained by po)~ce while sellitlg camera
equipment, video recorders, watches
and other items to Soviet citizens out
of his car trunk at night in a south-
west Moscow construction site. It al-
leged that he had made a total of
X21,000 through the deals.
He was trapped while setting up a
deal on a building site with an under-
ground Soviet dealer, the newspaper
said. It added that the black market
dealer alleged to be involved was fac-
in; criminal charges .
It said Mr. Rosenber also had "a
who e i e o ten entious material
nun a e amurg our coon .. as
we as a of o co ie.~ oI' ' an anti-
'. ~i~viet pamph et, "whic is p5~ub fished
with a money of the CIA and other
es ern mte gence agencies."
-The newspaper said-1Gir. Rosen-
berg denied all charges when be was
taken to a police station. Trull said
he had been "forced to leave" after
the Soviet authorities made a strong
protest about his activities to the em-
bassy.
The last known expulsion of an
American diplomat from the Soviet
'Union was in September, 1983, when
Leningrad Consul Lon Augustenborg
was accused of spying and ordered to
leave the country.
A senior embassy official said
earlier this month that Ambassador
Arthur Hartman had complained to
the Soviet Foreign Ministry about al-
leged hara$sment of U.S. diplomats.
The official did not mention any
names, but the embassy has since
confirmed reports that a diplomat at
the U.S. Consulate in Leningrad was
badly beaten up in April
The Soviet news agency Tass has
denied the reports:
Trod said the U.S. Embassy Eco-
nomic Department had been the
i source of a series of scandals and
named four former attaches who it
said had been eapelled for espionage.
The cases were made public at the
time and on each occasion the embas-
sy refused to comment in line with
standard U.S. policy.
In an April, 1983, interview in The
Evening Sun, Mr. Rosenberg was re-
THE SUN/JED KIRSCHBAUM
BRUCE ROSEl~IBERG
Worked at Embassy in Moscow.
ported to videotape sights around
Afoscow as a hobby. He said his duties
at the embassy included making re-
ports on the economies of countries
trading with the Soviet Union.
In the article he described the
Soviet Union as "a drab, shabby po-
lice state" that he thought of as "a
IlTineteenth Century country, old-fash-
ioned and patriotic, chauvinistic."
He said that "the variety of goods
is limited, and there is little concern
with quality in their products, except
they make excellent tanks."
Working in the embassy was "tike
living in a fishbowl," he said. Police
are ever-present in the City, he said.
"During the few times I've talked
to ordinary people," he said in the ar-
ticle, "I didn't find any dislike for
Americans." A Moscow theater,
which he sometimes attended with a
Soviet friend, was one of the few
things he found to praise in Moscow,
the article said.
Reporter Elizabeth Hudson and
Sun Moscow Bureau chief Antero
Pietila contributed to this story.
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