SECRET POLICE ARREST DISSIDENT IN MOSCOW RAIDS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200970065-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 65
• Publication Date: November 20, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTTCOiF P PPUtRED
ON PAR'E_
LOS ANGELES TIMES
20 November 1983
Secret Police, Arrest Dissident in Moscow Raids
By ROBERT G!LI.);'ITE, 7YniesStaff Writer.
MOSCOW -Soviet. authorities, -.in hospital, the sources said.
a continuing, efforts to "."eliminate, His arrest follows the sentencing
dissident information networks, ar- last month of young literary scholar
rested a 50-year-old mathematician Sergei I. Grigoryants to 10 years in
in Moscow' and 'raided 'four apart prison, labor camp and internal exile
ments of his acquaintances, dissi- for compiling a related journal of
dent sources reported. , , u, i r T :.;, x human rights ? abuses, the Express
The sources said' .agents i of the - Information Bulletin "V."
KGB secret, police; charged Yuri Soviet authorities are attempting
Shikhanovich with! 'anti-Soviet, ac- . to stem the flow of information to
tivities after he was arrested at his the West about human rights abus-
apartment Thursday and. are, hbld- es and conditions in labor camps and
Ing him in. rMoscow's Lefortovo are moving systematically to cut off
Prison. ;:,, -.;: ; 4. w.!- donations from abroad for the fami-
The KGB has:accused Shikhain lies of political prisoners. Sources
ovich, a close friend of banished
physicist and Nobel Peace Prize
winner Andrei D. Sakharov, of
helping to produce the Chronicle of
Current Events, the most prominent
of several underground journals of
human-rights abuses in the Soviet
Union.
The Chronicle is a detailed com
pilation of arrests, trials and infor-
mation from within the vast system
of, Soviet labor camps. It has gained
a reputation for accuracy after it
first appeared in 1968. The journal
has been published in the West by
Amnesty International.
Married, and the father of one
daughter, Shikhanovich worked as
an editor of Quantum, a physics
journal for youth. He is expected to
be charged with violating article 70
of the criminal code, "anti-Soviet
agitation," an offense carrying a
maximum penalty of seven years in
a labor camp and five more in
internal exile.
Shikhanovich was accused in the
early 1970s of working for the
underground chronicle and was im-
prisoned for a time in a psychiatric
four additional apartments in Mos-
cow on Thursday, all apparently
aimed at uncovering the distribu-
tion network for aid from a multi-
million-dollar fund sponsored by
the exiled writer Alexander Solzhe-
nitsyn.
Among the apartments reported-
ly searched were those of Andrei
Kistlakovsky, 46, the current ad-
ministrator of the fund, and Tatyana
Lubich, the wife of his predecessor,
Sergei Khodorovich.
Khodorovich, 42, was arrested
April 7 and is being held in Mos-
cow's ? Butryki 'Prison, a holding
place for political prisoners since
the 18th Century..In October, Sol-
zhenitsyn's wife, Natalya, told the
Associated Press that she and her
husband had received information
that Khodorovich had been repeat-
edly beaten in prison and that he
had been seen on Sept. 30 in the
prison hospital with a fractured
skull.
Last March, the authorities tele-
vised a confession by a participant
in the fund, 32-year-old Valery
Repin, who maintained that the
Solzhenitsyn fund was a front for
the American CIA. Repin had spent
15 months in prison under intensive
interrogation before his appearance' .
on television in Leningrad. Facing a.
possible death sentence on treason
charges, Repin later received an
unusually mild two-year sentence
in a labor camp.
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