SVETLANA'S DAUGHTER MAY LEAVE U.S.S.R. ALONE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000606370005-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 1, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON TIMES
1 April 1986
Svetlana's daughter may leave
U.S.S.R. alone
MOSCOW (Reuter) - Svetlana
Alliluyeva, the daughter of Josef Sta-
lin who came back from the West in
1984, is trying to leave the Soviet
Union again and send her daughter
to an English school, a Soviet jour-
nalist said yesterday.
Viktor Louis, who often acts as an
unofficial spokesman for Moscow,
said he understood Miss Alliluyeva's
14-year-old daughter Olga, whose fa-
ther is American, could leave. But he
thought the mother's chances were
doubtful.
Mr. Louis said Miss Alliluyeva had
left the southern republic of Geor-
gia, where she had been living since
her return, and was in Moscow try-
ing to get exit permission from the
authorities.
Mr. Louis said Western press re-
ports that Olga was already abroad
were incorrect.
On Saturday, the State Depart-
ment said Miss Alliluyeva, 59, who
returned after 17 years in the West
in November 1984, had met consular
officials to discuss her case.
Olga's father, William Peters, said
in Arizona that the department told
him Miss Alliluyeva wanted their
daughter to go back to her English
school.
When Miss Alliluyeva returned to
the Soviet Union in a blaze of public-
ity, she said her 1967 defection had
been a huge mistake, she had never
enjoyed a free day in the West and
now wanted peace.
Her only good words were for the
Quaker religious school in Saffron
Walden, England, which her
daughter had attended.
Miss Alliluyeva was given back
her Soviet citizenship by a special
decree in 1984. She had earlier
burned her Soviet passport.
Mr. Louis, who once was accused
by Miss Alliluyeva of circulating a
doctored copy of her memoirs in the
West, said he believed her record
made it unlikely that the authorities
would grant her the privilege of exit
papers.
He said he did not know if she
wanted do leave permanently or sim-
ply to accompany Olga to England.
Olga was a different case because
she had been born in the United
States of an American father, he
said. Miss Alliluyeva and Mr. Peters
divorced in 1973 after a brief mar-
riage.
The U.S. Embassy has monitored
the case closely because of the girl's
citizenship, diplomats said.
Soviet officials have said pri-
vately that the Kremlin regards
Miss Alliluyeva as a troubled indi-
vidual and that she was shown toler-
ance as a returning defector because
of her position as Stalin's daughter.
Diplomats said her failure to stay
quietly in Georgia would be viewed
with anger by the authorities.
At a 1984 news conference. Miss
Alliluyeva publicly re ented her de-
tection, regarded as treasons a un-
der viet law. She said she had been
manipulated by the Central Intelli-
gence Agency and warne other
would-be defectors not to betray
their homeland.
But she described herself as an
intensely religious person who had
not acted for political reasons. She
said she regarded her daughter as
Russian but confirmed she had also
once stated that Olga was "as Amer-
ican as apple pie."
Mr. Louis writes for British and
French newspapers as well as Soviet
publications. Over the past two dec-
ades, he has served as a source of
news in cases potentially embarrass-
ing to Moscow authorities. He has
been the main origin of news reports
and films of the banished dissident
Andrei Sakharov and his family.
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