KGB DEFECTOR BARRED FROM ENTERING U.S.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000606130001-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 23, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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'ibmu D. Shuman, formerly a top
propaganda officer for the Soviet
N Agency in India, was
turned away by U.S. border
authorities on Oct. 4 as be attempted
to cross from Quebec to Champlain,
N.Y, sources reported.
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Mn Shuman, a Canadian citizen
since 1975, said in an interview that
the action had forced him to cancel
scheduled speeches and radio-
television appearances in Florida
and California, including a
Daughters of the American Rev-
olution meeting in Fresno.
Nancy Greene, wife of actor
Lorne Greene, had asked Mn Shu-
man to participate in a civil defense
conference Nov 4-5 in Los Angeles.
He said he may be unable to go
because of the US. action. The pur-
pose of the conference is to expose
Soviet orchestration of the "nuclear
winter" doomsday scenario being
promoted by =my and
peace activists, an organizer said.
"I'm just sitting here in Montreal
until they [U S. officials) get things
straight reed out," Me Shuman said
"They told me Iwould have to got a
waiver from the U.S. consulate
before I could enter the country,
take three
which months t bey more.
"They saw my said I was
born in (thel U "be said. "They
asked me it I had ever been (a) mem-
ber of the Communist Party. 'Of
course,' I said. Maybe I tall them too
much, I don't know They said I
l of his ftuant
would have to got [a] waiver to get in.
I have made dozens of such trips to
the U .S. and this is the first time this
has ever happened," he said.
Mn Shuman is the son of Col.
Alexander I. Bezmenov, former
chief inspector of the Soviet army
during the Khrushchev era. He
graduated from the Oriental Studies
Institute in Moscow and was an "-
tor for the Novoeti Press Agency -
~ Propaganda n New i for eight years
before he defected to Canada.
For the past six years he has
worked as a free-lance writer for
Panorama News, a Russian Jewish
newspaper in Los Angeles. Mn Shu-
Ukrainian, he also is active in the
cause of Jewish emigres.
"Alexander Polovets, my boss at
Panorama, wanted me to keep my
Canadian passport to travel;' he
explained. "The U.S. government
granted me a work permit in Sep-
tember, and I applied for my [perma-
nent resident] green card two weeks
ago."
John Damone, Immigration and
Naturalization Service chief at
Champlain, N.Y., said he did not
-recall the border incident involving
Mn Shuman. He referred The Wash-
ington Times to INS district head-
quarters in Buffalo.
Winston Barrus, an INS official in
Buffalo, said the INS "would be
required to refuse admission" to for-
eign communists or former commu-
nists until they' could demonstrate
their desirability for entry into the
country.
"He's going to have to face it;' Mr.
Barrus said. "He could obtain defec-
tor status by showing five years of
active opposition to the communist
system at the same level as when he
was part of the system. Or he can get
a waiver of inadmissibility, which is
a one-time thing that would have to
be done on a continuing basis."
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