U.S. KISSES OFF JILTED RED SPY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000301960001-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 6, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/11/08: CIA-RDP90-00965R000301960001-5
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NEW YORK POST
6 November 1985 FILE ONLY
Home to Russia, without love
U.S. KSES OFF
JILT SPY
FLIP-flop spy Vitaly Yurchenko re-de-
fected over a shattered love affair with
a Soviet woman living in Canada. intel.
ligence sources said yesterday.
The report came amid a flurry of develop-
ments in the Yurchenko spy scandal.
? State Dept. officials met with Yurchenko last
night and confirmed that he wants to go back to
the Soviet Union and is not being coerced.
? Congressional sources revealed that there had
been a number of other defections of Soviet spies.
details of which are still secret.
? The Senate Intelli.
gence Committee prom.
ised to probe the entire
Yurchenko affair and
asked for an internal
CIA investigation as
well.
The story of the Spy
who went back into the
cold after having come
from Russia for love
was the most colorful of
a plethora of theories
going around in Wash-
ington yesterday.
Intelligence sources in
Washington said that
Yurchenko had had a
love affair with the wife
of a senior Russian dip-
lomat living in Canada.
The Soviets have a
mission of 280 people in
Ottawa and more in a
consulate in Montreal
and missions and trade
delegations in Toronto.
Vancouver and Halifax.
Only senior Soviet of.
ficials are allowed to
take their families
abroad.
According to the
source. Yurchenko was
rebuffed by his lover.
who he had hoped to
bring to the U.S. to live
with him.
"She liked him as a
spy. but not as a defec-
tor." the source said.
Yurchenko has a wife
and a 16-year-old son in
the Soviet Union.
It was unclear when
Yurchenko pursued his
love affair with the Rus-
sian woman - in the
Soviet Union or in the
West.
The report also raised
the question of how Yur.
chenko conferred with
the woman over their
break-up.
Yurchenko hurried
into the State Dept. at
6.10 P.M. last night
flanked by five Russian
diplomats for a meeting
with State Dept. offi?
cials.
He emerged So
minutes later accompa.
nied by the same offi-
cials and was whisked
back to the Soviet em-
bassy.
By PETER FEARON
& RACHEL FLICK
"Are you staying or
going reporters
shouted as he left.
-It's obvious." one of
the Russians shouted
back.
In the back of the em-
bassy car. Yurchenko
raised a double fist and
waved it in a victory sa-
lute.
Later, the State Dept.
said the meeting con.
firmed that Yurchenko
was not being coerced
and 'his decision to re-
turn to the Soviet Union
was made of his own
free will."
He is now free to
leave the U.S.," the State
Dept. said.
The Soviets had
agreed to the meeting
alter the State Dept.
said Yurchenko wou:l
not he flowed to lease
the U S. without some
assurance that he had
not been coerced into re-
defecting.
Yurchenko, identified
as the unctime head ,f
the KGB's American sec-
tion. came to the U.S. in
August and was in the
custody of CLa Officials
until last weekend.
He turned up at the
Soviet Embassy on Mon-
day and. at an extraordi-
nary news conference.
said he had been ab-
ducted in Rome, drugged.
and pumped for Russian
secrets at a CIA hideout
in Virginia, but managed
to escape.
According to congres-
sional sources, who asked
not to be identified, Yur-
chenko is just one of a
number of Soviet spies
who have defected in re-
cent months.
The details of the other
defections are still being
kept secret by the CIA.
the sources said.
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/11/08: CIA-RDP90-00965R000301960001-5