LAST OF EXPELLED U.N. DIPLOMATS EXPECTED TO LEAVE FOR HOME TODAY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201100040-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: October 14, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON TIMES
14 October 1986
Last of expelled U.N. diplomats
expected to leave for home today
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The last members Gf a group of 25 Soviet
U.N. diplomats expelled by the Reagan ad-
ministration are expected to leave the United
States today, Reagan administration officials
said yesterday.
"Administration policy toward the request
for departure of 25 Soviet U.N. diplomats re-
mains unchanged" as a result of the Iceland
summit meeting, said one official.
The official, who declined to be named,
would not disclose any details of discussions
in Iceland on the 25 diplomats, including the
11 remaining in New York.
The administration, however, has not re-
versed its Sept. 17 expulsion order against the
25, the official said.
Anita Stockman, a State Department
spokesman, had no immediate comment on
the expulsion. Soviet U.N. officials could not
be reached for comment.
The diplomats were directed to leave the
country by Oct. 1 in the first phase of an
administration program aimed at counteres-
pionage. The administration wants to reduce
the number of Soviet U.N. diplomats from 275
to 170 by 1987.
The expulsion was ordered after the So-
viets refused to comply with the administra-
tion's U.N. staff reduction directive issued last
March. Officials have said the reduction was
ordered to curb Soviet espionage activities
under cover of the United Nations.
President Reagan, in a Sept. 28 speech to
National Security Agency employees, re-
affirmed the administration's commitment to
"root out" foreign spies.
"Those around the world who would seek
to steal our secrets and technology, subvert
our values and institutions and to violate the
privacy of our communications must realize
this fact: The American people will no longer
tolerate this conduct," said Mr. Reagan.
Secretary of State George Shultz agreed to
a two-week "grace period" from the Oct. 1
deadline to allow additional time for the 11
remaining Soviets diplomats to clear up "per-
sonal matters," said the official.
Mr. Shultz granted the extension as a con-
cession to Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard
Shevardnadze in negotiations that led to the
release of U.S. journalist Nicholas Daniloff in
Moscow, the official said.
"The 'U.N. 11' will be leaving tomorrow
[ hesdayI," the official said.
Administration sources yesterday con-
firmed a report in Sunday's editions of The
New York Times that identified nine of the
remaining 11 diplomats as intelligence
officers
STAT STAT
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